@Walter Hinteler,
Walter Hinteler wrote:
Not only that the USA is similar in religion to "Germanic" countries, most of US-citizens have "Germanic" ancestry (all those Anglo-Saxons, Germans, Scandinavians ...)
I'm not sure, but I think that the concept of " win-win strategies" was only developed in the last century. So you are correct that it is not part of the "Germanic" culture.
Here in the U.S., probably due to original ancestors coming from one European country or another, many people self-identify as Americans of a "specific" ancestry. Meaning WASP's have British ancestry; Germans have German ancestry, Irish have Irish ancestry, Italians have Italian ancestry. Jews are either of Eastern European, German, or Sephardic ancestry (I'm not including a small number of Israeli expatriates). I have heard it said more than once that German Jews "out-Germaned the Germans" and therefore there was resentment towards their being so successful at being Germanic?
So, you might be wasting your time to point out to an American that Americans of European descent often come from some ancient gene pool. I believe that is partially correct, since Scandanavians were separate, and even made the Germans, and the rest of Europe blond in earlier centuries. And, I think that there are few Italians that identify with Germans (in the "boot" of Italy), other than admitting that the "sacking of Rome" was done by a Germanic people that likely mixed with the Romans.
As a high school history teacher once taught, Germany was a late comer to the colonial powers, so they were literally playing catch-up in the early 20th century to be a western power, if I understood him correctly.
