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Why do Germans like Anglos so much?

>> No.10863331

>>10863303
isnt it the other way round?

>> No.10863366

>>10863331
It really isn't

>> No.10863500

>>10863303
The first German translations of Shakespeare appeared in the mid to late 1700s which, including the affinity between the English and German languages themselves, gave great excitement to Goethe et al.
N.b in the 18th century German culture was essentially French culture and you could find many Germans (Goethe et al.) looking for a distinctly "German" (a slippery concept in itself as there wouldn't be a unified "Germany" for another 100 years or so) culture, in literature especially, which they frankly had none. Already inundated with French cultural output, they looked to the English for inspiration.

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10863516

>>10863303
why do anglos like germans so much?

>> No.10863675

>>10863500
interesting tidbit

why are germans so self-conscious about their (lack) of cultural achievments?

>> No.10863683

>>10863675
the entire german psyche is one gigantic inferiority complex that has led to either directly or indirectly every terrible event to occur in human history
don't try to understand it

>> No.10863740

krauts can't compete with the BAC

>> No.10863765

>>10863675
>why are germans so self-conscious about their (lack) of cultural achievments?
Why wouldn't they be?

>> No.10863804

>>10863675
It's really astounding, actually. The only field they ever excelled in was music composition. Everything else has been a great big joke.
Kant was a memelord who, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer were platitudemongers. Goethe was correctly described by Nabokov as a philistine idiot child.

I wonder why they can't accomplish anything.

>> No.10863848

>>10863675
They were busy humiliating everyone else on music

>> No.10863997

>>10863848
>greatest composer is of completely foreign extraction
lolno

>> No.10863998

>>10863303
Why does [ethnicity] like [ethnicity]?

>> No.10864012

>>10863303
they're jealous of the french, so it's natural that they look up to the natural enmity of the frenchies: the eternal anglo

>> No.10864049

>>10863303
why are austrians so superior to germans?

>> No.10864056

>>10863675
german autismo

>> No.10864058

>>10863303
They both have autism.