Greetings from Germany

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8. My SO and I took a flight to Europe

the morning after election day, 2004, when Bush II defeated John Kerry.

We took a Lufthansa flight, and because my sweetie used a wheelchair we always got into conversations with airline staff.

One of them, obviously German, saw my partner's "Kerry for President" button and came over to tell us how distraught she and her roommate, also German, were about the results. She told us the two actually wept when the results were final.

My experience is that the average German knows more about American politics--and history--than the average American. That's entirely subjective, I know. And I KNOW that the average American knows pretty much zilch about contemporary German politics or culture.