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| This kind of Pride? |
I read once that a favorite topic of parlor conversation during the nineteenth-century concerned the basic identity of Russia--were the Russians, at their core, European or Asiatic? I guess only the Russians can say. Since 1945, at least three generations of westerners have debated whether Germans have the right to express national pride. The rest of us get to do it, right? But those Teutons--there's
something particularly unsettling about
them. Do they get to ride down Berlin streets waving flags from the backs of their VW vans? This is from today's New York Times--
"German Identity, Long Dormant, Reasserts Itself". To which identity is N. Kulish referring? The Prussian one? An anti-fascist identity?
