Germany replaces US as country with best international image

Re:Germany replaces US as country with best international image by ant6n on Saturday November 18, 2017 @10:22AM (#15729272)

As a German who lived in Canada for 12 years, and moved back to Berlin for a while, I am not sure I could really live here. You constantly have struggles with a system that has rules which don't make sense. Neoliberalism seems to run deeper all the time, without people seeing it. Everybody seems to constantly try to screw you over, and overall societal trust is not very high. Politicians seem to be completely tone deaf, not understanding people's everyday struggles. Maybe it's a kind of complacency, because deep down Germans feel they're the best somehow, that they've got the best system.

I guess besides the 'system' and the people that form it, Germany is actually very nice.

(And the US is way worse in all these respects anyway)

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Re:Germany replaces US as country with best international image by Santosh83 on Saturday November 18, 2017 @10:28AM (#15729308)

You've just described India too. Perhaps different countries are actually more similar than we like to imagine, being made of the same species?

We need to solve our biggest issues at a global level because history shows that even if one country goes from strength to strength, sooner or later its surrounding nations can pull it down. Also usually the rise of one country is upon the ruins (or at least exploitation) of another, or others.

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Re:Germany replaces US as country with best international image by philipps on Saturday November 18, 2017 @04:37PM (#15730848)

Where did you end up moving to? Back to Canada? The issues you describe do seem to be increasing everywhere.

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