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My last sentence was a mistake. The "Germanen" (Germanics or Germans) are for us as strange as everything else what has to do with the name "German". German is only an expression of the Romans for us. We are "Germans" in a similar way like "Red Indians" or "native Americans". Both are not expressions for the people who lived 500 and more years ago on the continent which is called since some hundred years "America" from us. Never any of this people had called themselve "Indian" or "American". In a similar way never existed any German who was a German - but it exist for example Germans who are Anglo-Saxons (England), Frankonians (France), Alemans (Germany) or Langobards (Italy) and many others - like for example also the "exotic" Vandals in North-Africa and Spain (Andalusia = land of the Vandals). And what's a real difference between Normans and Germans is also not very clear. ... The "definition" we use when we have to decide on our own who is a German or not is the use of language: Who speaks German (=one of the German dialects and/or languages where we don't need an interpreter) is a German.
Interesting in this context: A song in a German dialect like the following one here is today for the very most Germans as difficult to understand than an English song which the normal German doesn't understand at all, although everywhere is "English" music.
My last sentence was a mistake. The "Germanen" (Germanics or Germans) are for us as strange as everything else what has to do with the name "German". German is only an expression of the Romans for us. We are "Germans" in a similar way like "Red Indians" or "native Americans". Both are not expressions for the people who lived 500 and more years ago on the continent which is called since some hundred years "America" from us. Never any of this people had called themselve "Indian" or "American". In a similar way never existed any German who was a German - but it exist for example Germans who are Anglo-Saxons (England), Frankonians (France), Alemans (Germany) or Langobards (Italy) and many others - like for example also the "exotic" Vandals in North-Africa and Spain (Andalusia = land of the Vandals). And what's a real difference between Normans and Germans is also not very clear. ... The "definition" we use when we have to decide on our own who is a German or not is the use of language: Who speaks German (=one of the German dialects and/or languages where we don't need an interpreter) is a German.
Interesting in this context: A song in a German dialect like the following one here is today for the very most Germans as difficult to understand than an English song which the normal German doesn't understand at all, although everywhere is "English" music.
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