[HN] Germany is no longer exceptional, and joining the European mainstream
[HN] Germany is no longer exceptional, and joining the European mainstream
The country is joining the European mainstream, with its political class struggling to counter rising far-right support and an economy that is no longer best-in-class.
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It’s interesting to see germany viewed from the outside. It is a lot different than the view from the inside although I can’t say I disagree.
The german school system has been lacking for decades and dumb masses are easy to sway by populism.
Germany used to be a country of tinkerers and engineers. Today it’s mostly about who drives the fastest car, makes the most money and has the most whit on twitter.
A ton of german schoolkids have a migration history and a lot of those have been (and still are) met with suspicion and were deprived of proper education.
The tight systems to get up the socioeconomic ladder or be caught when one is in free fall were designed to keep people from advancing too fast but they’re hindering us now.
Having parents with enough german language knowledge to fill our 30 page forms is tantamount to actually getting ahead.
That is imho what really happened to germany. We‘ve let the next generations of engineers starve through systemic racism and pulled up the latter to wealth.