Confused Germans Seek Safety In Some Euro Serial Numbers

mattduke · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Oct 28, 2005 Posts: 1501

They know something is wrong with government money, but were not taught the nature of money in their government schools.

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Cashmere · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Mar 27, 2008 Posts: 1971

This is as much as I need to know about Germany.

If I move there and tell the local authorities that I intend to homeschool my children, thereby giving the kids a better education than they could get at the German equivalent to the U.S. idiot factories, they would put a gun to my head and walk me down to the jail.

That's all I need to know about Germany.
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This seems a little nutty to me.

How exactly are Italian Euros any different than German Euros? That's like refusing to accept quarters from Denver and demanding quarters from the Pennsylvania mint instead.

If one is worthless, so is the other.

Very few people are even aware of the serial numbers, let alone know which letters correspond to which country.

I'm not worried about this at all.
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geojap2 · Tar Sands Joined: Jun 12, 2008 Posts: 46 Location: Texas

I lived there for 11 years. It's a very organized, beautiful country. The bureaucracy can be overdone, but no place is perfect. Every country has it idiosyncrasies.

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Cashmere · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Mar 27, 2008 Posts: 1971

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Kingcoal

Being of Pennsylvania Dutch descent, I can understand these quirks, it's in their blood. That's why I've always been skeptical about the EU becoming like one big country, similar to the USA. Germans have an innate superiority complex, which, by the way, is better than the opposite. They feel comfortable with things being under German control. If you understand the mentality, you will understand everything about Germany. Germans like the EU - as long as they are the major player.

The history of the USA is a good comparison to the EU. Before the Civil War, the States saw themselves as sovereign countries voluntarily tied together under a treaty called the US Constitution. After the Civil War, the States were made aware that they could never leave the Union and go off on their own because that would be seen as a national security threat by the rest of the Union States - preserving the Union, was seen as the ultimate function of the US federal government. The supremacy of the US federal government was decided once and for all. IMO, that's pretty much how things are ultimately settled between humans. At the end of the day, truth speaks from the barrel of a gun.

If the EU is willing to take a similar path, they will become the world's preeminent superpower, period.
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Cashmere · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Mar 27, 2008 Posts: 1971

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Do you want to teach your Children in a Germany of 1934 or in a Germany of 2008?

That's two different things, believe it or not.

I wouldn't teach my children that todays Americans like slavery, just because it's part of your history.

If you don't like our education system that's fine for me (I'm sure that it could be improved as any other education system, too). But we are not "training young nazis" at our schools.

I'm quite sure that there aren't so many countries available that teach their children as much about the dark parts of their history as the Germans.

Maybe Kingcoal can answer, how many lessons in Dutch schools are used to teach the children about the Dutch part in colonialism for example. I don't know it.

I think that there are dark parts in the history of almost any country, the most important thing is in my opinion, that you have learned from that and try to make it better now, not if you have to be unapologetic about the things that happend long before you have even been born.

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