US ambassador killed over a film

[Lissa]

And how many people do you think would understand Lutheran is from Germany? How many people would know that Bratwurst or Hamburgers are German? How many people do you think still remember "99 Luftballons" or how about the fact that it was redone specifically for the US as "99 Red Ballons" with it's lyrics translated to English? How about that Kraftwerk is not an American band. Likewise, Rammstein is not an American band. It's also quite hard to seperate out Brahms, Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner from classical music. How much are Grass, Kafka, or Gothe required reading in American schools? Begin to see the point?

You mean, the point that enormous slices of German culture have been so well integrated (and so little suppressed) that they appear to be American (or "generic" or "universal") to Americans? Why, yes, I do get that point. I think I said it here:

Methinks you have simply normalized all the parts of German culture that are now "american" to the point where they are invisible.

-Jester

Try again, being normalized is the whole point of being suppressed. When you can't identify it from it's origin, it means you've suppressed the origin. Why would so many Germans Angelicanize their names then if they felt that it would harm them to keep with the original German names? That's the whole point of suppressing, to keep from being repressed for something you are. The cultural identify has been lost. If you walk up to someone and ask them what country Lasanga originally came from, they'll likely tell you Italy. If only a small number can actually identify where something came from, that means that the culture has been suppressed.