@ted

• Well you seem knowledgeable and I admire your conviction about the American system, I do think both systems, the American and the European (as many others as well) seem to work. Good scientists are produced on either side of the Atlantic. WW2 is certainly a sensitive subject, which needed many decades to be objectively discussed by Germans.
  Maybe I used the wrong term, is "in depth discussion" a technical term only used for discussions among people with a higher University degree? If that's the case I must apologize, that's certainly not what I meant. That is obviously something you can find at almost every University in the world. I was referring to coffee break discussions among people without specialization in that specific subject.
  My very subjective impression in Britain (where I've been living for over two years now) but other places as well. People discuss matters of their own profession and pop culture, but very few young people seem to read the newspapers and discuss, whatever (social problems, environmental issues, politics, historic questions...). Nothing against the British, I love them for other reasons. That's just my impression of that matter.

  Expat 18 Мар 2009, 06:50 - Report

germany sucks