All true plus our (USA) years of trade deficits are impacting hard. While Germany runs trade surpluses. You still have nation pride and are not degenerate borrowers
Our nations pride is not the question. I guess especially in germany there’s a lot of people having difficulties to identify with anything allegedly beeing german of nature.
You know - we lost two wars - but that’s not the problem. Some of our former leaders believed, that industrially killing innocent people was a good idea - I guess that has cost us at least a century of easy national identification.
That is, what’s beeing rebuild at the moment - hope we come up with something of style and not of monstrosity.