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German 'National Character' and Cultural Profile: Some Thoughts
Scientific Essay from the year 1984 in the subject Cultural Studies - European Studies, grade: none, Kyoto Sangyo University (German Department), language: English, abstract: Discussion of the concepts "national character" and "cultural profile" in view of German history and culture. (Presented at the Fift Annual Conference of the Western Association for German Studies, Seattle/Washington, 1981/10/9; In: Acta Humanistica 14/1. Humanities S. No. 11, 1984, 216-249)
"Typically German?"
This cross-cultural, comparative analysis considers how the nation is constructed and understood differently across cultures. Taking Germany as my case study, I explore how images of the nation come to be influenced by the national membership of the observers. I discover a paradox in which varying images of Germany reveal more about the national character of those doing the perceiving than about the inherent nature of "Germanness." I find that social location comes to structure not just the image of this one nation but also influences understandings of the place of the nation in the larger world order. I term this process in which social location affects the role and image of the nation nati...
Made in Germany - A Proof of Technical Perfection. Stereotypes of Germans in British Advertising
The British attitude towards Germany seems to be ambiguous. There are still many World War II movies on television, there are serious newspaper articles and hostile tabloid cartoons, unfriendly governmental memos and, last but not least, advertising. The people dealing with this issue are of different political backgrounds therefore they have contradictory intentions and express either friendly or hostile opinions. Nevertheless, certain stereotypes of Germans are recurrent, regardless of which attitude is represented. The two following lists of German attributes have only recently been compiled. The first one is the result of the Chequers-Conference in March 1990, when Margaret Thatcher disc...
