Criticising Germany: Three principles for the fair assessment of proud nations
Posted: July 11, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »
Generalising is the first step toward racism. Every sentence beginning with “The Germans believe this” or “The Greeks do that” is an initial slide on a slippery slope leading, eventually, to bigotry. As I have argued before (click here for a video version) there is no such thing as the Germans, or the Brits, or the Greeks for that matter. Our various nations sport as much variety within them as the divergence that we observe between them.
