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The New York Times has a story that delves into a conundrum faced by Europeans: Why are there few, if any, technology companies from Europe with the size and reach of American tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Apple?
The article hypothesizes that, even though employment regulations and other business and legal factors play a role, it's actually deeply-embedded cultural differences that are the primary cause, citing less aversion to risk-taking, less stigma from business failures such as bankruptcies, little or no stigma from leaving and rejoining a company which is seen as disloyal in European cultures, more acceptance of disruptive innovation, and a less rigid educational system that allows individuals to find their own form of success.
(Considering the many indications that US schools now train for tests, not knowledge, perhaps alternatives to school are more attractive.)
Original Submission
(Score: 4, Insightful) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday June 22 2015, @08:44AM
I think you are full of shit.
> No, it is not dramatic. The clean and hard nazis in uniforms, the unshaved cold eyed russians, the hard slavs...
> The people in the wars and the people living todays everday is the same people
You're saying that Germany is still full of Nazis? That Germans are all "Clean and hard"? Go to Germany. Meet some people. They are some of the most welcoming, humorous and fun-loving folks you'll ever encounter.
It seems like everything you've written is based on misinformed old stereotypes and panic-mongering Daily Fail articles. I don't think you have a bloody clue what you're talking about.
> Just look at yugoslavia 25 years ago and russia today... It is falling apart. And everyone is afraid of war in europe
Everyone's afraid of war in Europe because WAR IS FUCKING HORRIBLE. There's nothing more to it than that. Europe learned that lesson the hard way, over and over again, and these last 50 years or so we've actually being doing something positive about it rather than endlessly repeating history.
> because everyone knows how hard and rutless we are.
Sorry to burst your nationalistic bubble here but no one country or continent has a monopoly on ruthlessness. It was the Brits who started the firebombing campaigns of the second world war, but there is a far longer list of nastiness behind that. The Spanish butchered millions on the new world in pursuit of gold. The French showed how ruthless they can be during the revolution. Africans, Asians, Americans - I could give you list of atrocities as long as your arm from pretty much any nation on Earth. What's your point? That people can be bastards and that war is hell? Not news. But people - the same people even - can also be warm, inviting and compassionate.
You get the former when people don't know or trust their neighbours, when they let themselves be informed by propaganda and stereotypes rather than direct contact with other peoples. The solution to that is to get people out of their borders and meeting as many different folks as they can. The internet has helped a lot in that as well. See how much more popular opposition there is to every war now.