Germans a lively bunch of folks, notwithstanding our reputation of being "proper," "distant," or perhaps even "strict." Granted, as a group, we do seem to incorporate an awful lot of these characteristics, yet individually we are much more than the picture painted above. We love to dance, party, and wax poetically! We have a long heritage of folklore, history, as well as art and literature. Our poets and composers are renowned world-wide, and we're also known for manufacturing some pretty fancy cars! While the latter may be changing, the former never will.
I want to thank all those of you who have visited this topic over the course of the last year or so, I thank you for e-mailing me, and I thank you for commenting here. We had a lot of fun, and we learned a lot! To refresh our collective memory, we learned that in America a parent can name a child anything and everything under the sun; in Germany, however, the government has felt an obligation to step in and draw a few lines in From The "Who Knew" Files...What's In A Name?. In the same series, in an article entitled From The "Who Knew" Files ... Idiosyncrasies Of German Table Manners, we remembered that the field of German interpersonal etiquette and table manners is strewn with landmines and booby-traps.
We further discovered that while America observes a unique celebration known as Halloween, Germans have chosen to celebrate autumn and its metaphorical significance of death and dying, by soberly remembering those who have passed on, both the greats of the faiths, as well as personal relatives and friends in the article entitled From The Who Knew Files...Commemorating The Dead In November.
There were many other topics we discussed and interactions we have had, but I think we can agree that German Interest is a topic near and dear to my heart, and I hope you have enjoyed it as well.
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