Comments by "Holger P." (@holger_p) on "Type Ashton" channel.

  1. Do you see any action, any activity concerning alcohol ? Not advertising for it before 8pm, is the only change I have seen in the last 30 years. There is no "way" or any kind of trend.
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  2. If your german approach of Ordnung, falls down to Dutch or Danish level, that's already what you qualify as "not as present, as it should be".
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  3. No, you can't. That's more "having a relation to a topic". Like you like horror movies, and science-fiction movies, it's not mutual exclusive. But it's not your identity. If at all, the exact combination of both makes your identity. To me it sounds like having two personalities - Jekyll and Hide or so - this is not healthy ;-)
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  4.  @Belgarion2601  I just missed any argument, why you could have multiple identities. Having knowledge, like studying a culture in university is really not enough for identity. And with 8 grand grand parents, you can have 8 identities ? To me it's one new mixed identity. You claim, there is no mixing.
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  5.  @Belgarion2601  You don't stick to identities, but change to terms like nationality or person definition. For me, it's one person definition per person. That's what I call identity. Nationality can hold different concepts, like citizenship or ethnicity. Mostly it's also only one per person.
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  6. I think Americans travel more, I recently heard of one flying to college, east to west coast. It's just not international. Imagine Germany as New York State, some beaches, some skiing resorts; but mainly people leave the 'state' for vacation, visits and business. Within 5 hours drive by car I could reach 5 different European countries.
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  7. But there is a rumor about Bill Gates in Germany, he couldn't have founded Microsoft in his garage, cause a garage is windowless and hence not allowed as a working place. So the "non-industrial" use of homes, isn't that strict in USA either.
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  8. We cannot make laws to prevent people harming themselves. It's not a nanny-state. Difference on minors is just, they are underage - too stupid to decide for themselve in harsh words. That's why they are also not allowed to vote. But as for any problem of minors, it's the parents responsible to supervise.
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  9. Don't always say "for free" if you mean "tax-financed". People must develop more understanding what they pay their taxes for, to pay them "with joy".
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  10.  @philipptielmann  Sure, but nobody is healthy forever, so your statement is only temporarily valid.
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  11. So in the same sense , there are no "Americans" ? The topic is not ethnicity, it's identity. And with 300 years heritage, it's really enough to say "I'm from here" - not from somewhere else. Otherwise we all have to say, we derive from Lucy in the great african rift. Or from the phoenicians. It's completly arbritrary to fix your identity by "where lived my grandman in the year 1500".
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