Americans Are Different – We Also!

Americans Are Different – We Also!

The EU and United States: Two values – and goods worlds. Of the Americanization of globalization. Rarely, under order was so beautiful and so inevitably. (s. a. Chinese are different – we also!.) The victors took over Germany’s last social transformation. Our folk of poet and thinker revealed previously the darkest page of our national psyche /-soul. After that you designed for US Germans, on basis of our Judeo Christian values and standards, our new morality with and for us.

The ethics guidelines of the nature, the democratic experience for the victorious powers with their rules, morals and values, the UN with their people fundamental rights were based: liberty, equality, fraternity. In the building frenzy of the postwar years, we, partly unnoticed by the population, the American corporate standards and rules took over easily and quickly (rock n roll, jeans). The four primary differences, and political development; saved us the intellectual and moral examination of the recent past. The 4 primary differences in the United States to Germany are still (decreasing): importance of the material, economic and rational: mechanistic cybernetic quantitative picture of the world. Professionalism and commercialization and flexibility of relations.

– instead of control and security. Competition and competition as the most useful way of life of society (Adam Smith (1723-1790)) instead of welfare State (monetarism instead of market economy (decreasing), profit orientation instead of common economy). Individuality, freedom and mobility: De regulation vs. regulatory… Principle of equality vs. power principle: equality at the beginning or equality at the end? Either all be treated absolutely (linear, all pay 5) or relatively equal (exponentially, all pay 10% of the income): equal treatment or equal opportunities! High unit price per performance unit or linear basic fee plus lower unit price per performance unit. An example of American or German logic to tackle societal processes of two opposing sides and edit: Free competition or forced be Gluckung.

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