FelAmsterdam's comments

Schade, i am ivy league educated and i know the German universities very well too. The reason of their low rankings rather depend on different, yet other factors such as that the biggest and most important research institutes are NOT within the University but separate entities which work together with multiple Universities. See Fraunhofer (mp3) or Max Planck which are heavily interlinked with not just Universities. You cant compare apple and pears. German Universities are not marketed as brands such as Harvard is. After the big 8 an some other good colleges u have a lot of easy as hell universities in the States. Another key differentiator is the way US colleges encourage students to form and found new companies, just look around Cambridge,MA. Many Harvard and MIT student set up their companies there. All those things come together for rankings. Another factor is how many students apply and how many get denied. You cannot deny that the German system is working extremely well for the last hundred of years. Germany filled most patents in Europe and is the country which is targeted most by industrial espionage. Mr Wharton got his idea of an MBA after a visit in Dresden or Leipzig when he saw how trade and commerce was taught there. You really like your stereotyping dont you. all your comments on Germany are heavily biased and that gives one a certain idea of how sad a person you are.
Not sure if you re aware but new technologies like the GM Volt where developed solely in Germany. Specially German engineering education is world leading in its curriculum. put an Anglo Saxon and a Germany educated one in trial you will find out. Stop your German bashing, it really is too obvious.

no prob frankfromStuttgart, i just got fed up and bored seeing always the same ilk lamenting and stating the same odd (false and stereotypical) bs about certain nations. i ve been exposed to Germans my whole life and have nothing bad to say since u find special people any country out there. Am just a bit worried that admins here do not tend to stop those trolls from spamming

on a key note... most of the German foreign players are indeed German born players which only got the passport of their parental home country like the former Kovacs or Altintop brothers.

As far as i remember the OECD said Germany is not educating enough academics. Well probably cause you dont study Beautician or Nursing at college level but apprentice level meaning...hands-on practice. They re more rigorous in who is granted into 3rd level education.Those people with apprenticeships are their backbone. the laborers their inventors and many enterprises were founded by people without any academic degree but a practical knowledge of their chosen field

Guys, Germanambassador aint german

@Gavin,

one wee question. Who is the bad guy? If you need money cause u didn t save enough (hence none) but want to buy something you actually cant afford and ask some bank from UK or d continent to help you out... who actually is at fault? the one which satisfies demand or the one has a demand he cannot satisfy by himself as he has not the financial base to do it?
Its too easy to blame anyone else but ourselves. We created that demand and if i look in the Saturday Indo i see tables of which banks/credit cards over the best AVR in return for u moving your debts to on their card, giving you a prospect of being able to spend money again (of course which is adding on top of the nasty pile already accumulated)
Its neither German nor anyone else s fault, its ours.Go to the Church pub or any other built with money from banks.The empty carcasses down on the LUAS to Sandyford never being occupied by tenants.We lied over our means and we have to face the bill.We re on the receiving end of benefits from the EU and same time using that money to build roads to no-mans land (or small ones to IKEA)while attracting investment with cheap taxes which could otherwise go to the continent where they pay the taxes which fed the irish tiger... biased the Irish are. Do what Bertie couldn t and face the truth, this is an Irish misdoing not a banking one

thanks again. so u say anything against your notion and u re either an enemy of the trolls or a exile German. Well i guess people get used to it here being scrutified and harrassed by ur ilk.
As i said, u post a commend and second later u get a recommendation. its so...well easy to spot. Anyway. Yes i know we re a bit too easy to come over by the nazis but well... they re organized quick and direct...drive thru Rotterdam and spot the difference to other cities. Basically nazi bombing helped them a lot to rethink their if our building style (narrow but long, utterly steep and narrow staicases) is such a good idea.
Oh and yes we had lots of collaborateurs like every other country too. Ok we re a bit too eager to over archive our quota regarding trains to Auschwitz but war is a special time and being calvinists we dealt with those collaborateurs our own dutchy way...as u like google soooo much look for mine field cleaners... i dont have anything against u or any european country. My wife is a lovely german french lady and i lived in 18 countries so far, next being china. But its just tooo obvious that its allways the same lot of people bashing Germany. Its not actually that ui guys have much influence since more and more people dont give a toss on economist blocks since u ilk around here in every usual article. Oh and btw. Schadefreude, i had German in school as nearly all of my fellow countrymen, i spent many lovely holidays and had a string of German girlfriends, i m not such a sad person as u, biased and boring with repeating myself. I also do not pretend to speak German like u misspselling every single word and have no idea about the german psyche. Germany is like Nederlande, a colorful place where people do not mind ur difference too muhc as long u show interest and respect the rule of the place. Have a look in statistics, After US and i guess Russia, its the second most diverse place with many people having a migration background.
u guys must have studied Gorings books on propaganda intesively

ah u 3 from the usual suspects group. i like the way u post something and immediately get 1 recommendation.... so sensible... i know now u target me with you rants too, but i ll keep it short. my dissapointment in the Economist board is final

Kristallnacht is not to bring in relation with Multi Kulti show shame on. stop quoting in nazi propaganda speach and get over it. BTW the french idea of assimilation shows in recent riots and whenever u go to Marseille or greater Paris