What exactly are "German" people?
How culturally distinct were the constituent regions of this abomination prior to the 18th century?
I'm asking this on /his/ rather than /int/ because I want to discuss the question from a historical perspective.
>>819363
The HRE was a hodgepodge of languages, cultures and peoples.
>What exactly are "German" people?
More like, "what exactly are the German 'people'?"
>Holy
>>819387
I should have clarified, I was referring primarily to the Germanic-speaking regions.
>Wuz
That pic is a mere shadow of the 'abomination'. Take this
>>819363
>HRE
>abomination
You're a fag, OP.
>>819363
>German
>People
>>819363
Usually considered the ones who's mothertongue is german and the corresponding regions
And parts of Elsaß-Lothringen to piss of the french
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ztOV2wrrkY
Germany is a geographical construct.
Sure the so called Germanic peoples might have a lot in common but if you really put your mind to it, the Danish and Bradenburgian have more in common among themselves, and the Bavarians have more in common with the Austrians and Swiss, than the Bavarians have in common with Bradenburg.
>>820672
This is pretty much all you need to know.
>How can Germans be real if our eyes aren't real?
>>819363
German people are just the ethnic groups who spoke the Germanic languages.
>>820672
I KNEW IT
I KNEW IT WOULD BE THAT
>>820695
Yeah, but you could say the same thing about the Italians, French, Spanish, etc.
>>819363
slavs, crypto-slavs, crypto-celts, french, and various german tribes
consider that the first attempt at creating a court language for the hre was a dialect of a dialect of german
Is the Arab Spring/sectarian violence in the Middle East just a repeat of the Thirty Years War?
>>821268
No, because the Thirty Years War actually largely ended large-scale religiously-motivated infighting while Muslims will murder each other to the end of time.
