"For Germans" because everyone who lived there then and everyone who lives there now had and have equal experiences? My dad grew up in Germany in the 40's and 50's, but 1) I'm sure his experience wasn't universal and 2) I wasn't talking or thinking about him when I wrote that, obviously with no offense intended because he's my father. And that was my point. The original question-poser doesn't need to be attacked as offensive for not thinking of every possible perspective or over-interpretation. They were posing food for thought, and from a writers' personal-experiences point of view, (and basically American one, I'd guess) not as a social-political-historical debate (because if that were the purpose of the Writer's Block, it would have imploded months ago).
As you can probably tell from this, I'm sort of anti-getting offended for more than about thirty seconds and (perhaps stupidly) pro-attempting to smooth over perceived offenses when possible. When I see "the Cold War," I kinda don't think about racism and girls not being doctors or about five-cent Coke, all of which were relatively-to-really early in that period, not to mention not really anything to do with the war itself. And I didn't know many people did, so probably neither did the person who posed the question, and I was explaining what they probably were thinking about -- not attempting to slight any other national or political perspective. I'm sorry if you read it that way.
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Date: 2008-10-04 04:38 pm (UTC)As you can probably tell from this, I'm sort of anti-getting offended for more than about thirty seconds and (perhaps stupidly) pro-attempting to smooth over perceived offenses when possible. When I see "the Cold War," I kinda don't think about racism and girls not being doctors or about five-cent Coke, all of which were relatively-to-really early in that period, not to mention not really anything to do with the war itself. And I didn't know many people did, so probably neither did the person who posed the question, and I was explaining what they probably were thinking about -- not attempting to slight any other national or political perspective. I'm sorry if you read it that way.