Defining a Common Culture Does Germany Need To

Defining a Common Culture - Does Germany Need To? November 07, 2005

The divisive debate over a "Leitkultur," or predominant culture, has broken out in Germany again. Conservatives tend to think defining the culture is important; many on the left think it's an attack on minorities.

Ed. The left don't have any other thought-process - the first, next, middle, second-last and last reaction to anything is this misapplied "racism" tag...

Germany was successful in rebuilding its planted and charred cities after World War Two, but it was less successful in healing the deep wounds German culture and the national psyche suffered after 12 years of Nazi rule.

For decades, the phrase "German pride" was considered an oxymoron, something that had been rubbed out of existence after Auschwitz.

Ed. Let's begin our cultural re-awakening by examining what really happened at Auschwitz and elsewhere without being held hostage by the guilt industries and professional black-armbanders of history. Also stop wasting money on impressionist art wankfests which get put in the public square to perpetuate this miserable b.s...

But that began to change after reunification and in 2000, conservative politician Friedrich Merz asked the question publicly: Could Germans be proud of their achievements and should there be common cultural guidelines that people ought to live by? It evoked some angry responses.

Ed. It should invoke debate, unless they have something they don't want the people to discuss? Hmm?

Now, the new president of the Bundestag, Norbert Lammert, another conservative politician, has said it is time to look again at what makes Germany German. He is not comfortable with the term "Leitkultur," which he says conjures up a sense of superiority of one culture over another. But he says he wants to get beyond the provocative nature of the term itself.

Ed. You've firstly got to recognise that not all cultures are equal - some are naturally better than others. Failure to do this means you will be doomed to thinking you've got "just another culture" forever more...

"The prospects of a really constructive discussion are far greater today than they were a few years ago," he said. "The truth is that there are cultural differences, and the truth is also that these differences, and the conflicts that occasionally arise from them, are anything but irrelevant."

Ed. Would this fellow swap permanent residence in Germany for Ghana or Guatemala given all the "irrelevant" cultural differences? Yeah, me either...

He mentioned the concept of gender equality, which in Germany is enshrined in the law. In some immigrant communities, fathers arrange marriages for their daughters and women are of second rank.

"The right to equality for women, culturally based on our historical experience, and the right of the man to dominate in other cultural circles, also culturally based, cannot exist in one and the same society," he said.

Lammert said that while German society is a multicultural one, there should be a visible common thread that holds society together. According to him, a society needs to come to an agreement that there is at least a minimal level of "orientation" that should apply to everyone, regardless of ethnic or cultural background.

Ed. State funded multiculturalism needs to be abolished. Trying to be a multicultural-buttimilationist is lefty-logic. Bit like the concept of the m-billionaire-socialist like Chomksy, Soros or Clinton or being a feminist and saying nothing about your Islamist allies. Or being for freedom, democracy, tolerance and diversity while supporting ever more constricting thought-crime legislation and anti-christian purges because it suits your Marxist totalitarianism...

Is it necessary?

Ed. Is social cohesion necessary?...

But others think this debate isn't leading anywhere. According to Claudia Roth, now head of the Green Party, the country's consbreastution paves the way for a peaceful coexistence of cultures and Lammert should see Germany's cultural diversity as a defining value in itself.

Ed. Diversity is division - division is not unity...

"He should realize that what he's doing is not encouraging debate but unleashing serious controversies," she said. "The concept of a defining German culture is nothing more than an attack on minorities in our country."

Ed. Anything else is an attack on the MAJORITY ability to direct their nation - we know the Greens don't give a damn about them though, their motto is "Democracy is much too important to be left to the people"...

Thomas Nord, head of the new Left Party, also said he has misgivings about reigniting the debate of a term which he said would not lead toward addressing issues that needed attention.

"Whoever restarts this debate will come under suspicion of trying to distract attention from the real problems we have," he said.

Ed. The trouble is that immigration is a very real problem, itself having serious knock-on effects for other issues this leftist charlatan is supposedly interested in; such as housing, employment, welfare, crime and of course cultural erosion...

-- Jim Union Against Multiculty

"Abolish Multiculty and String Up The Traitors!"