While in the big cities and mainly in their central areas, globalization has produced a breakdown of the physiognomy and practices of German culture, in its smaller towns and cities the clearly German spirit is still maintained.
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Although this occurs in many other countries, both developed and developing, in the German case we can say that the gap between one and the other is greater.
We are going to enter the streets of any town in the middle of the former German Democratic Republic that has been on the side of the most recent changes, to try to see to what degree the old customs are maintained.
The roots of German culture go back many centuries in the past. Some experts consider that what is called "German culture" transcends the current borders of this country. This is due to the innumerable numbers of border mutations that Germany has undergone over the past few centuries.
The German language was the lingua franca of central Europe. Many important historical figures, though not German in the modern sense, were immersed in German culture, for example Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Kafka, and Copernicus.
During the last decade of the 20th century, Germany changed its attitude towards immigrants considerably. Despite approximately 10% of the population being foreigners, until the mid-1990s public opinion was that Germany was not a country of immigration.
Although in recent years this has turned 180 degrees, even in vast territories such as this the population continues to be mostly indigenous. It is a Germany left in time, aged. Almost a museum of urban dimensions.
In the Baltic countries where we live and in general in many regions of Eastern Europe not yet favored by development, whether in Bulgaria, Romania or Poland, something quite similar occurs. The local flavor remains intact.
Life is often more difficult for young people in places like this. The preponderance of adulthood contrasts with the need for warm blood. However, the trend does not seem to be reversed, neither with state policies, nor with remote work.
The bicycle as a symbol of parsimony, the flowers adorning the shop windows, the omnipotent clouds and the scant sun are the hallmarks of these regions with an uncertain future.
It is in these small enclaves where culture is truly sustained. Being able to go through them at a slow pace and without prior plans, letting the surprise flood the details, is one of the things we enjoy the most with Dace, before returning to the city.
Beyond music, plastic arts or poetry, there is art in the streets. If that's what traveling is about, interfering in the different manifestations of man in his own geographies, in this part of Germany, we have traveled.
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🔎 I am Gustavo Llusá, Argentine, after traveling for several years in more than 60 countries, I settled in Latvia where I got married and learned to know another way of life, on the other side of the map.
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