Anglo Saxon World vs Continental Europe

[JohnSmith]

We are not the best. Our societies are inherently backward and inherently dysfunctional. We are overly liberal and value career over all else.

Not any worse in relative terms compared to anyone else.

The Anglo Saxon World has much lower unemployment than most of Continental Europe.

[Balmung]

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To this day, Germany is power number 1 in Europe considering in the first place Economy which is a machine of entire European continent, without German ingenuity AngloSaxon world wouldn't bring itself neither to the Moon in 1969 or even developed Nuclear weapons in WW2, because of German scientists, including Jewish-German person called Einstein.

AngloSaxon world WAS great, but great only because of various reasons of LUCK in GeoPolitics, and I named just few of them. AngloSaxon world (UK) is no match and never was for Germany in 1 on 1 comparison, and that is a AngloSaxon complex which haunts them to this day, except for braging about colonies around the world (AKA; slautgher of millions of non-whites around the world who defended themselves with spears), they in fact have nothing which would even be considered as RIVAL to German state or German world, as country/kingdom/empire; Germany.

Even if the colonies are taken out of the picture Germany's still no rival. UK contributed more to the world culturally and scientifically than Germany as did France. Those German engineers wouldn't even have power if not for Britain. Germany's empire didn't even rival Spain's

We are not the best. Our societies are inherently backward and inherently dysfunctional. We are overly liberal and value career over all else.

Germany's more liberal, and in fact their immigrants helped make parts of the US more liberal.

[Fantomas]

USA,Canada,UK,Ireland Australia and New Zealand. All have high standards of living and enjoy a democratic foundation built on English Common law.
We must be doing something right.

Is the Anglo Saxon Model a model worth envying? Or is the European Continental approach headed by Brussels and Berlin better?

What do you mean by European Contnental approach? Getting rid of internal borders, accepting of common money, rule of one government over different states? Hmmm. where can we see the same process?

[JohnSmith]

What do you mean by European Contnental approach? Getting rid of internal borders, accepting of common money, rule of one government over different states? Hmmm. where can we see the same process?

Continental economic approach is very different from Anglo Saxon Approach. The continental approach is more of a welfare state approach and more of the GDP goes toward public spending.

[Damião de Góis]

Not any worse in relative terms compared to anyone else.

The Anglo Saxon World has much lower unemployment than most of Continental Europe.

And how is youth unemployment looking in the Anglo Saxon world?

[JohnSmith]

And how is youth unemployment looking in the Anglo Saxon world?

It certainly is not as high as Europe. I am not exactly sure. Interesting your Portuguese and Portugal sometimes is considered an Anglo Saxon Economy by some because of the low public spending for their GDP. Plus, they are not really Mediterranean as they never touch the Mediterranean Sea.

Portugal has a similar economy to Ireland in size.

[Damião de Góis]

It certainly is not as high as Europe. I am not exactly sure. Interesting your Portuguese and Portugal sometimes is considered an Anglo Saxon Economy by some because of the low public spending for their GDP. Plus, they are not really Mediterranean as they never touch the Mediterranean Sea.

Portugal has a similar economy to Ireland in size.

Youth unemployment is bad everywhere. So your system is not perfect either.





In this case, the germans are doing better.

[JohnSmith]

Youth unemployment is bad everywhere. So your system is not perfect either.





In this case, the germans are doing better.

Cannot use Germany as an example because they are exploiting their neighbors unfairly using EURO.

They benefit from Southern Europe's misery since Southern Europe is fixed to use the EURO which only benefits Germany and their export economy.

[Learning_Genetics]

We cannot really be conservative. Its basically impossible for us to be real conservatives. Our entire societies are based on market values and trade. Most of us commute an hour to and from work. We work all day and by the evening there is only time to eat and sleep. It is not an ideal situation for people with a more spiritual or humanities based inclination. In fact our culture celebrates this as something positive but to me it is extremely decadent because it creates a culture in which a person's worth is derived from their career and social status.

Rugged individualism and capitalism are completely contrary to conservatism. All we Anglos can be conservative at is classism and hierachy. In every other respect we are hyper-liberal.

Furthermore, our character is inherently anti-romantic and lacks sentimental feelings. We look down on emotions. How can a culture like ours produce romantic conservatism that is rooted to the traditions of one's ancestors and native soil? Germanics, Scandinavians, Slavs, Uralics, Finns and the peoples of Asia are much better examples for us to look to for how to be conservative.

[Graham]

Much of Western Europe has a good standard of living and our law system is different to Common law, it is partly that.

We are doing fine, Northern Europe is doing fine.