GER150H1 Lecture : 11th Jan 2012 TUT 1.doc
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About peoples" distinct behaviours (cold disposition, efficiency, power hungry, beer drinking) Many in the list above are cultural products. Culture (assumed to be behaviour), is more ingrained and long lasting. The main question the introduction asks about german national culture is on p. 3, is. 1848 (important date) a failed revolution done by students and academics and the middle class. Brutally repressed. (then the middle class retreated into a kind of nationalism). When its not political, how is nationalism characterized? (gesellschaft vs. To be a german is to be somehow ethnically a german. Heine (this is common for german jews) converted to lutherism (in 1823) ie. he got baptized. (to be a citizen you had to be baptized. And you only get a job with a fairly high position if you were a german citizen) Early 20th century, convert to lutheranism as a jew. Ethnic component, a permanency for being a jew. Being german was race based (to be aryan).
