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Thread #29755   Message #380704
Posted By: GUEST,Ina
23-Jan-01 - 04:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Pomp & Circumstance, America & elsewhere
Subject: RE: BS: Pomp & Circumstance, America & elsewhere
Hi there, I'm from Germany. Well actually we don't dare to have too much pomp and circumstance regarding our nation because here it could easily be thought of as nationalism which is strongly linked to our Nazi past. I think meanwhile it is even part of our mentality (at least in my generation) that the sentence "I'm proud to be German" or "Hail the President, Chancellor or whoever" wouldn't easily come across our lips.