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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Quit Shopping For Fun Date: 20 May 2024 19:17:14 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 20 Expires: 1 Feb 2025 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: <language-20240520201621@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> References: <slrnv4i2ad.2h8.bencollver@svadhyaya.localdomain> <875xv9v1xk.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere> <87o790gvc3.fsf@tudado.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de XyD84P5D+RTs44LQOck2SgPRfJ5U3ejpzSajY84ky3D5r9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:alx58VxelVAnmCSroN8rO7uLbNw= sha256:AUkfmnt3KyVKf/iyYkLxjE+pu2v4MyPJnUjVlvwDNpM= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2024 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2339 Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote or quoted: >Honestly, what I see in the population at large is a certain generalized >depressed behavior. This rings a bell about something I caught wind of in the papers recently. It was just the opening salvo of a German-language article, with the rest locked behind a paywall. The part I could scope out basically said: (name abbreviated by me, "home" below refers to Germany) |Whenever G. is back home for a few days, she just wants to |get away: "In Germany, the men all walk around with such long |faces, you immerse yourself in this gray world so quickly," |says the 65-year-old. In Italy, on the other hand, everyone |says hello on the street, everyone is warm, helpful and in a |good mood. I'm not totally convinced you can broad-brush those two countries based on that one personal experience, though.