http://www.unz.com/isteve/whatever-happened-to-germa-america/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whatever-happened-to-germa-americaWHAT HAPPENED TO GERMAN CULTURE IN AMERICA?
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-25 07:42:00 UTC
Theme: Ethnoculture
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I don’t know enough about the matter. But Albanians produce a low trust polity –
I don’t know enough about the matter. But Albanians produce a low trust polity – yes.
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-24 10:53:40 UTC
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( Overhearing conversations: I know it’s just empirically true that most african
( Overhearing conversations: I know it’s just empirically true that most africans instinctually retain a fear of deep water. But for some reason I just can’t imagine it. Any more than I can imagine the asian fascination with youth bordering on pedophilia. Any more than I can imagine the European fascination with altrusim.Any more than I can imagine what it’s like to think like a woman. It’s just one of those things. )
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-16 06:52:00 UTC
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EXPLAINING AMERICAN DIRECTNESS AND VOLUME TO FOREINGNERS —“The speaking volume
EXPLAINING AMERICAN DIRECTNESS AND VOLUME TO FOREINGNERS
—“The speaking volume in the United States for most conversations is very loud, which in many other countries would be considered rude. … Also, business people in the United States use very direct language and tight time management when communicating and running meetings, which people from many other countries might find off-putting.” –Raj Patel
ON VOLUME
It’s counter-intuitive, but our volume is an expression of high trust: that if I can be said, it can be said in public, and with confidence or it should not be said. Or conversely, quiet people who speak in whispers may have other nasty habits.
ORIGINS
It is beneficial to remember that Anglo and Germanic civilizations only split in 1830, and that america was founded by pre-1830 anglos, and that the majority of white americans are at least of partial german decent. America is an english speaking germanic country. That is what separates English speaking America from english speaking Britain, Canada and Australia. (This insight is rather profound and you will find that it explains many american cultural peculiarities. America is a Tudor,German, Civilization with english institutions, law and language).
We can also recall that the world now operates Military, Aircraft, and Seas in English (germanic english) using English commands and manners, because we found out that the rest of the world operates on face (lying), hierarchical(untrue), indirect(untrue), and permissive (untrue), language suitable for village life but not for running DANGEROUS environments where truth, clarity, and directness save lives.
But the question is, why did germanic anglos invent this kind of direct language?
BECAUSE WESTERNERS WERE ALL MEMBERS OF THE MILITIA. German evolved as an aristocratic, martial, language. And westerners have been practicing decentralized (militia) warfare for over 5000 years – at least since they invented the Chariot.
So even today, the first thing you are taught in basic training is to speak clearly, loudly, confidently, and TESTIMONIALLY (truthfully), regardless of the social impact of your speech – because otherwise PEOPLE DIE.
Americans and Germans retain (Germans more so) this military culture in daily life: speak directly, clearly and truthfully. Quiet speech means you are not to be trusted, and not a fully mature adult.
Until the last few generations, we were taught GRAMMAR AND RHETORIC (public speaking) as a requirement.
COMPARISON FOR HINDUS
You are correct in stating that this directness eliminates cooperative economic friction, decreases the necessity of developing trust (it’s assumed) and increases the use of litigation when it fails. That is because america does not regulate what we do, it punishes what we do if we fail. (This is profound difference between the napoleonic ‘parental and permission” model of law.
It is not obvious but while we have very similar genetic origins, and while we both have inherited the common law, that the reason India is so pervasively corrupt, is that it is not a high trust society that has succeeded in creating a universal militia independent of class, tribe and family biases. (and the decline in truth telling in favor of political correctness and postmodern argument in all walks of life is the reason for increasing corruption in america.)
The west has been through a 5000 year meat grinder military service and the relative success of the west in all fields – science, commerce, and law – is because we tell the testimonial truth regardless of cost to anyone. Because as a martial people, doing so is your path to status and enfranchisement. And because in a martial people, the truth means people live in battle. And martial people were led by martial aristocracy.
It has only been since the enfranchisement of women that these requirements for disciplined truth telling have been systematically undermined. And just as martial truth-telling (testimony) is the secret of the west’s evolutionary velocity compared to older civilizations, the secret of our downfall is the decline of this tradition of martial truth telling due to the inclusion of women in the electorate. (Look at the voting data. Look at today’s voting data. American white men vote red everywhere other than main and Seattle.)
And that’s pretty scary really.
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-16 05:56:00 UTC
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tensions between Germanic-Celtic and Baltimore-Slavic populations
http://akinokure.blogspot.com/2015/09/from-europes-ancient-divide-tensions.htmlAncient tensions between Germanic-Celtic and Baltimore-Slavic populations
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-14 11:49:00 UTC
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TRUST IS A EUROPEAN EXCEPTIONALISM – it’s an aberration. (Must read) The rest of
http://thosewhocansee.blogspot.com/2015/09/why-re-colonization-commonweal.html?m=1HIGH TRUST IS A EUROPEAN EXCEPTIONALISM – it’s an aberration.
(Must read)
The rest of the world is low trust (other than Japan).
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-13 11:56:00 UTC
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Slavic men cannot really compete with their northern and western peers in featur
Slavic men cannot really compete with their northern and western peers in features – I am not sure humans get better looking than Celt, Dutch, Dane, Swede and Finn, but there sure are a lot of good looking men here, and they have better proportions and fewer asymmetrics. There is a father here marrying off his daughter and he is very good looking. Damn.
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-13 05:12:00 UTC
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“legitimate” is nonsense word. But: “Merchant-centric demographic policy is absu
“legitimate” is nonsense word. But: “Merchant-centric demographic policy is absurd.” is a gem. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-11 09:03:13 UTC
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Never would have imagined that I would be sitting in Eastern Europe. Or that I w
Never would have imagined that I would be sitting in Eastern Europe. Or that I would feel at home here. Or that I would see these people as the soul that we have lost to Anglo imperialism.
Why police the world? They are not worthy of our science, law, norms. They cannot make use of them.
Modernity will evolve without our policing. Just as communism would have eventually failed without our policing – albeit, perhaps at greater human cost.
We need only defend ourselves from their primitivism – not defend them from themselves.
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-10 10:27:00 UTC
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CONVERSATION ON IMMIGRATION (just for record purposes) SAUL: But it’s advantageo
CONVERSATION ON IMMIGRATION
(just for record purposes)
SAUL: But it’s advantageous for a state to have a process that is fast and efficient
CURT: I think it is an advantage to have the most difficult process possible, with the only expediency education in a technical subject, and experience in the field.
SAUL:If you have a system under which you can move around goods freely and cheaply while at the same time create great difficulties for moving around labor advanced countries will end up with what they are today: cheap goods and expensive labor. $5k dental visits. Great cars needing a minor repair junk yards. Outsourcing. Curt Doolittle living in Ukraine. And other undesirable consequences.
CURT: Move capital and institutions to labor and thereby construct norms and institutions, do not move labor to capital and institutions and pay a cost in norms and institutions.
SAUL: And this is where I think you got it wrong. Moving capital to labor does not create institutions, while moving labor to capital can assimilate labor according to the rules of the culture.
CURT: That is only true if and only if one does not understand the content of those norms. All that is necessary to transform any country are 10,000 lawyers and an equal number of police. Why are we not exporing both instead of importing underclass dependent labor?
SAUL: Don’t get me wrong, I wish more countries were like America. But it simply doesn’t work that way.
CURT: (I kind of doubt that I am wrong since the evidence is overwhelmingly on my side. wink emoticon ) I don’t wish more countries were like america, Canada and Australia: land-privilege is not a particular bit of intelligence. It’s just luck
(or conquest).
SAUL: If you propose unachievable conditions for your argument to work it means it doesn’t work.
CURT: It is not as important to achieve that end as it is to revise existing law such that costs are not born.
SAUL: Yes 10000 lawyers and police and it would work. But you don’t have 10000 lawyers and police. And America has MILLIONS of immigrants EVERY YEAR. Most will assimilate seamlessly within our lifetime.
CURT: Truth is truth in the sense that moral statements are objective. America has an overabundance of both and americans are natural judges and police. We have 1 lawyer for every 300 people and making lawyers since 1980 has become an industry. We can manufacture order-making on a grand scale. Because we DO IT ALREADY.
SAUL: In the private sector. not so much in government
CURT The probem is not sending 10000 lawyers to Ukraine. It’s Ukraine prohibiting 10000 lawyers and jusges. The single most advantagous thing a low trust country can invest in is american jurists and police.you want to radically change the world that’s how. And there is absolutely no reason why such things cannot be done. if others can send us MILLIONS of peasants, we can send the world THOUSANDS of jurists. You don’t build an airport or a judiciary by placing a help wanted ad, you hire a group of specialists to sytematically do it.
SAUL: Low trust countries are poor. They don’t invest much, especially in American lawyers. America has a built-in magnet that brings peasants. Ukraine has no magnets to bring American lawyers. Lawyers are human beings, and highly paid ones. You can’t just push them around like cart wagons wherever you want.
CURT: If ukraine set up a program to do that most developed nations would support it, and we could easily get 10k people here. Easily. We send millions of troops, americans overwhelmingly evangelize care around the world, and a law degree in america is no longer a key to an upper middle class lifestyle.
SAUL: Besides, we tried it before. It’s called colonization. Not just lawyers but exporting all levels of government. Didn’t really work except that the colonized were a bit less fucked up than they are today.
CURT: So yes, you can push whomever you want, because 10K legal people is about 1.5-6 billion. a year for 10 years to transform a nation from low trust to high trust. that is a trivial amount of money. Imagine the return on that investment in the establishment of consumer credit alone. They are already replacing all the police. They will soon replace the bureaucracy. Hell, for that amount of money I bet they could get credit since the people could even be paid by external entities. Colonization by common law WORKED EVERYWHERE. Even india.
SAUL: “If Ukraine set up a program” do you realize that Ukraine will never set up such a program?
CURT: So now we are to the crux of the matter.
CURT: OK. Well now we are down to your subjective optionon, not a statement of whether such a program if instituted would be both a cheap (good) investment and would work to transform the country.
We can import any technology we want.
SAUL: of course it would work. in principle. provided that conditions that are next to impossible to meet are met
CURT: OK. Well, then how do we raise the cost of NOT doing it?
I mean, how could Ukraine refuse if with that came nearly unlimited banking and credit?
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-05 08:49:00 UTC