There’s no shame, there’s guilt pride. They are jumping right to that, not giving you an option of telling them they haven’t repented yet or maybe that they are repenting the wrong way, or not repenting at all.
It seems really rare to meet an ashamed German.
They are not ashamed of Namibia, just like Belgium is not ashamed of Kongo. That whole “genocidal colonialism is past us” thing was wishful thinking, it was quickly assumed to be already fulfilled and now Europeans judge you for reminding them what their ancestors did and what their nations are doing now, just by Israel’s hands or Turkey’s or someone else.
There’s no shame, there’s guilt pride. They are jumping right to that, not giving you an option of telling them they haven’t repented yet or maybe that they are repenting the wrong way, or not repenting at all.
It seems really rare to meet an ashamed German.
They are not ashamed of Namibia, just like Belgium is not ashamed of Kongo. That whole “genocidal colonialism is past us” thing was wishful thinking, it was quickly assumed to be already fulfilled and now Europeans judge you for reminding them what their ancestors did and what their nations are doing now, just by Israel’s hands or Turkey’s or someone else.