Sorry Leshma, but from which country are you?
No offense to you Bro, but it must be some Vanilla-paradise Wonderland.
There were People in ANY country in the World robbing, stealing and murdering.
It´s just that some did it earlier, some later, some more excessive and some not.
chocolate chip cookie-germany is the most popular and one of the later examples of this.Not to forget it´s bound to a world war.
I don´t want to relativize what my Grandfathers did(Mine did actually nothing as he was forced into the Wehrmacht and got imprisonated in Italia without ever firing a shot, but that´s not the point), and I can´t see where People from my country do that.To be true, Most people I see are still ashamed of this and are EXTREMELY careful about what they say and what they do.The german Government regularly supports Israel big time because they feel somewhat guilty(Though gifting them Submarines and Tanks isn´t the right way imo).
It just happened in the last few years that liberal and normal people begin to feel some patriotism again(Before the Football world championship in 2006 you earned strange and mad looks when having a german flag at your house or anywhere else).
Why, oh why cant we germans just have some pride for our country?It´s not like we are pride about the Holocaust or WWII.The whole world is goddamn patriotic but we aren´t allowed to because there was a horrible, horrible happening in the past?You know thats not fair!
Turks still have a lot of Pride for their country, yet they made the Armenian genocide
Serbians still have pride, yet there was the massacre of Srebrenica
List could go on for a while.
Fact is, the Holocaust and WWII were probably the most horrible genocide ever to happen in the past.Still it´s not fair to let the Son bleed for the mistakes of his father.
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This post has gotten longer and somewhat more serious than I wanted it to.
Anyway, I think we should get over that.You just can´t hate people for what their ancestors did.
I like people from all over the world, not regarding their Race, Homeland or physical and mental abilitys.The only thing that matters is if you are a Douchebag or if you are not.