http://www.tapmag.net/wordpress/2009/04/15/breaking-the-rules-german-style/ magazine for culture, politics and life from a transatlantic perspective Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:43:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.tapmag.net/wordpress/2009/04/15/breaking-the-rules-german-style/comment-page-1/#comment-6080 Germany, U.S. Still Worlds Apart on Economic Policy? Thu, 14 May 2009 09:31:01 +0000 http://www.tapmag.net/wordpress/?p=1006#comment-6080 [...] the same time, the discussion about culture as the determing factor for fiscal policy is still raging on. Phillip Stevens at the British Financial Times thinks that Europe’s [...] [...] the same time, the discussion about culture as the determing factor for fiscal policy is still raging on. Phillip Stevens at the British Financial Times thinks that Europe’s [...]

]]> http://www.tapmag.net/wordpress/2009/04/15/breaking-the-rules-german-style/comment-page-1/#comment-5777 John Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:02:09 +0000 http://www.tapmag.net/wordpress/?p=1006#comment-5777 Kuhlisch's article was fine and wouldn't even have raised eyebrows if it had been written a century earlier! It seems unthinkable that a piece of writing soaked with such stale stereotypes would make it past any editor of any respectable newspaper, let alone the NYT. All Kuhlisch did was piecing together a trip on the autobahn, a visit to the swimming pool, and an afternoon in the park. How he managed to deduce cause-effect relationships from that kind of "research" about the German response to the economic crisis is beyond me. The NYT might want to consider a second "stimulus package" from their Mexican patrons so that I don't have to hear about the autobahn, order, and the Germans' intrinsic love of rules when reading about the Teutonic psyche. Kuhlisch’s article was fine and wouldn’t even have raised eyebrows if it had been written a century earlier! It seems unthinkable that a piece of writing soaked with such stale stereotypes would make it past any editor of any respectable newspaper, let alone the NYT. All Kuhlisch did was piecing together a trip on the autobahn, a visit to the swimming pool, and an afternoon in the park. How he managed to deduce cause-effect relationships from that kind of “research” about the German response to the economic crisis is beyond me. The NYT might want to consider a second “stimulus package” from their Mexican patrons so that I don’t have to hear about the autobahn, order, and the Germans’ intrinsic love of rules when reading about the Teutonic psyche.

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