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Beethoven, Bach, Handel, Wagner, Richard Strauss, Brahms, Schumann, Albrecht Durer, Goethe, Grimm's Fairy Tales, the Black Forest, Black Forest Cherry Cake, Germans in their Sunday clothes walking in the Forests, etc., etc., etc. - there is much to celebrate and be proud of in German Culture. Germans should be proud of their Culture and celebrate it and restore it. Don't let it be replaced with Islam! This American learned to read with an English translation of Grimm's Fairy Tales, and has loved German culture ever since.

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I don't know much about economics, so didn't include in my list of why German Culture is uniquely good and worth preserving: Here's a quote from https://www.unbekoming.com/p/capital-has-outsourced-its-reproduction?publication_id=355417&post_id=213962444&isFreemail=true&r=3nhr4v&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

"Daniel Natal, an American historian of the mercantile system, has observed that mercantilism is not simply an economic policy. It is a mindset that treats commercial supremacy as identical with national interest, treats other nations as either markets to be captured or rivals to be broken, and treats any productive economy that generates wealth outside the mercantile grid as an intolerable threat. On this reading, both World Wars can be understood as mercantilist strikes against Germany, a nation whose economic model was based on factory production rather than colonial extraction.¹⁷ The nation that made things was destroyed by the nations that sold things."

"Making things instead of taking from others by force" - what a novel idea!

Some of the Scottish clans were "reiving clans" who raided other clans and stole their cattle instead of raising their own....

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