Modern Germans

[Masha]

I have always loved the German culture. I think that if one has to rate cultures, the German culture should in all fairness be #1 in the world (the best music and philosophy) - just ahead of the French culture, which a very-very close second. As for the German people, I haven't known that many. Maybe a dozen. So I can't generalize.

[Masha]

To add. Right now i am finishing Goethe's Elective Affinities (in English, of course).

I read that when Goethe was 12, he learned Yiddish, and when he was 13, he learned Hebrew. I wonder why? What influenced him? I know that he was from Frankfurt, and Frankfurt was a big Jewish center. Maybe he saw a lot of Jews around, and became curious about their culture.

[Geert Akbar]

Germans are awesome. I'm German!!!

[Rubystars]

I love them as a nation and a people, but unfortunately many are too socialist.

[patches]

Germans make really weird movies. Check out any Werner Herzog film.

[Yochai]

Modern Germans are for the most part overwhelmingly liberal, and thus, anti-semitic.

[SW]

Germans make really weird movies. Check out any Werner Herzog film.

   That's true. Some German movies are really terrible.

Movies Made in the USA are still my favorites

[Manch]

Germans make really weird movies. Check out any Werner Herzog film.

   That's true. Some German movies are really terrible.

Movies Made in the USA are still my favorites

Some movies are very good - Stalingrad, Das Boot. Still, I prefer French, British and Italian movies.

[Zelhar]

I don't want to sound insulting or dismissive but I really don't agree with that. Yes, Germany is highly technologically advanced and modern, but that means nothing. Nazi Germany was highly advanced and sophisticated also--it was the most high-tech nation in the world at the start of WWII (thanks in large part to the very Jewish scientists it so persecuted). Germany TODAY is ferociously anti-Israel and I do believe that average Germans feel that way (not just the government), and are also allowing Muzslime to take over their own country. Until I see evidence that vast numbers of Germans have repented of their Nazi past (and present), I just can't have anything positive to say about them.

I think Germans and other European are too docile and indifferent to the muslim intentions. Germany is the #1 exporter in the world, still ahead of china, Japan and America. I believe the mentality of this country is accordingly, they want to please everyone and sell their merchandise to everyone, no question asked.