You've got to remember that a lot of Americans have a really poor grasp on history. Like the country is less than 250 years old so something that happened 50 years ago can actually seem like a really long time for them.
It's very probable that they had it in their heads that this is ancient history and it would be no more weird than a French person doing a tour of an English castle.
No, sorry. There isn't a "German" entity on central Europe for 1k years, it actually is the other way around. The entities that came after claimed there was a unifying "Germanness" that led to unification, while - again - it was the other way around. The material conditions and social relations and propaganda create and fabricated the thing you now assume to have existed for a thousand years and more.
Prussia isn't and wasn't back then the German entity, the HRE wasn't and isn't the German entity. As a person with very Prussian and German heritage it isn't something I'll let stay in the room like this.
All the states that are now Germany were still inhabited territory going back at least a thousand years, with their own history and interactions during those times. So you can see a statue built 700 years ago and know who built it when and why(not for all of them, but at least for some). So an atrocity France committed a few hundred years ago will seem not super important when discussing current relations to France. However, in america, finding a hundred year old building is a bit of surprise in most states. Any history in the land going back more than 500 years is either just a untouched land or history that is lost or destroyed by settlers. So all the places we now call Germany have existed for a very long time with a storied history that is mostly known, whereas america doesn't. So thinkgs that happened only 5 or six decades ago feels like ancient history, as that's a 5 of american history and a tenth of the america's history, but feels recent compared to a few thousand years of european history.
I acknowledge as much in my comment. White people don't learn native american history, so the place they live in only 300-ish years old. germany cities have at least a thousand years that the people might know some of. if you want to critique any lost nuance, read the other comment first.
You've got to remember that a lot of Americans have a really poor grasp on history. Like the country is less than 250 years old so something that happened 50 years ago can actually seem like a really long time for them.
It's very probable that they had it in their heads that this is ancient history and it would be no more weird than a French person doing a tour of an English castle.
Yeah, :germany-cool: though is only 150 years old.
But there's been a German entity on central europe for like 1000 years. It's a bit like saying turkey is only a hundred years old, you know?
No, sorry. There isn't a "German" entity on central Europe for 1k years, it actually is the other way around. The entities that came after claimed there was a unifying "Germanness" that led to unification, while - again - it was the other way around. The material conditions and social relations and propaganda create and fabricated the thing you now assume to have existed for a thousand years and more.
Prussia isn't and wasn't back then the German entity, the HRE wasn't and isn't the German entity. As a person with very Prussian and German heritage it isn't something I'll let stay in the room like this.
All the states that are now Germany were still inhabited territory going back at least a thousand years, with their own history and interactions during those times. So you can see a statue built 700 years ago and know who built it when and why(not for all of them, but at least for some). So an atrocity France committed a few hundred years ago will seem not super important when discussing current relations to France. However, in america, finding a hundred year old building is a bit of surprise in most states. Any history in the land going back more than 500 years is either just a untouched land or history that is lost or destroyed by settlers. So all the places we now call Germany have existed for a very long time with a storied history that is mostly known, whereas america doesn't. So thinkgs that happened only 5 or six decades ago feels like ancient history, as that's a 5 of american history and a tenth of the america's history, but feels recent compared to a few thousand years of european history.
Not gonna read all what you write, but pretty much all of Earth was populated for the last couple of (tens) of thousands of years.
I acknowledge as much in my comment. White people don't learn native american history, so the place they live in only 300-ish years old. germany cities have at least a thousand years that the people might know some of. if you want to critique any lost nuance, read the other comment first.
Nope sorry only 31 years old thats how she works