What this is about, including full list. If Civilization has an iconic image that everyone has seen (and, let’s face it, it has many) it is the sneering face of Gandhi warning us to behave ourselves because his words are BACKED WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS. There is a universal cognitive dissonance in seeing the face of […]
Entries Tagged as 'Feature:Nations'
The Greek National Character
June 17th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Feature:Nations, History
What this is about, including full list. The Greeks are the Ur-culture for us in the West. Though our religious traditions are putatively Middle Eastern, our understandings of man’s relationship with other men, with nature, with society, and with the divine are very Greek. This shouldn’t be surprising, since even those Middle Eastern religious traditions […]
Tags:
The German National Character
May 8th, 2011 · 15 Comments · Feature:Nations, History
What this is about, including full list. What most gamers know about German history fits into a spasm of madness between 1933 and 1945. Though it goes too far to call this decade-plus a fluke (Nazism and the revanchism it embraced had a strong cultural and historical background, not unique to Germany), the horrible excesses […]
Tags:
The French National Character
March 16th, 2011 · 12 Comments · Feature:Nations
What this is about, including full list. In spite of all that France has given the world, few nations are as heartily disliked in the English speaking world. French has become synonymous with snobbish, pretentious, rude and cowardly. This is a twentieth century opinion of course; in the 19th century France was full of overly […]
Tags:
The English National Character
January 12th, 2011 · 38 Comments · Design, Feature:Nations, History
What this is about, including full list. It’s a hoary old cliche, but one worth repeating. A tiny island of the northern coast of Europe was once master of the world. As a Canadian living in America, the legacy of England and the United Kingdom looms large in my life, from approaches and attitudes to […]
Tags:
The Egyptian National Character
December 28th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Feature:Nations, History
What this is about, including full list. Like China, Egypt has a long history. Unlike China, it had a sustained near consecutive period of glory that makes it easy to stereotype and pigeonhole. Egypt’s greatest monument – the Great Pyramid of Giza – is synonymous with Egyptian glory and majesty. Egypt is the nation of […]
Tags: