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captain carot on 15 December 2014
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Insidb said:
captain carot said:

And Europes GDP is afaik slightly higher, so which region is more important?
That actually depends on how much you sell where.

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@Insidb:
How much europeans do you think know more of Murica than what you see in Movies and Serials?

Actually worked on a NATO Airbase when we still had our military duty, though just for eight month. There where pretty much and pretty different US- soldiers as well as civillians. And most of em wheren't really like that stuff you see in TV.

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, but Europeans tend to be better-informed of us than we of them. Working heavily in their favor is the ability to travel easily from nation to nation, whereas the US is basically made up of state nations. I have noticed that Europeans view us as a peculiar duality: the progressive, liberal, American Dream, NYC America vs. the dirty south, warmongering, backwards, bible-thumping Muricuh. Regardless, almost all Eurpoeans I know or work with are very present to what goes on in the US, while many of my compatriots back home know far little beyond the Eiffel Tower and the Colosseum.

See, i'm not even 10km from the dutch border, meaning when i want to get to the northea coast i usually get to the dutch one. It's just half as far.

Belgium is 50km. Other countries are like 300km, 700km... away. And that means different language, different mentality (fuck, us guys from the lower Rhine are nothing like those Lederhosen wearing weird Bavarians) and so on.

So you have differences within a single european country, like from Cologne to somewhere in deep Bavaria (Texas vs. New Yorkers if you want so) and at the same time you are surrounded by more or less deferent countries with different languages and so on.

The US have one big East Coast, one same thing on the western side, those Mexicans somewhere down there and those weird canadian cousins somwhere up there. At the same time it's almost 10 million km². From a german view that is gigantic.

That actually means, there is practically no european state as isolated as the US is in many ways. And i guess that is why we most times care much more about neighborstates. They're actually really near.

As for the US and politics, they are still important. Just take a look at eastern europe right now. I think that could be different, if we where more of politically united, not only economywhise. So yes, we always take al look on what the US does. For us Germans in special, we have been some kind of playground fpor geopolitics for decades. Get to that situation and you always take a close look at the big guys.

For the rest, yes, most Europeans or at least most Germans do have a black and white look on the US. Exectly those to extremes. Reality is usually somehwere between there.