Whew. Because it was really touch and go there.

[campbellconey]

Greatest Quiz Ever. I don't know how I feel about being potentially 'indifferent' to the most disgusting, vile war machine this world has produced. Except of course the Assyrians.

The Expatriate
Achtung! You are 38% brainwashworthy, 22% antitolerant, and 14% blindly patriotic

Congratulations! You are not susceptible to brainwashing, your

Comments

[alyxcat]

I think the writer trivialized the political climate of the times in his opening. Some people didn't sit "idly" by because they didn't care. They just didn't want to be shot, either. They weren't living in a democracy. Not that it's any justification but it's also easy for us to project what we would do in that situation when we're kind of spoiled living here in these times, because...as much as people want to shoot those of us who aren't blindly patriotic, legally they still can't.

Still being the operative word.

Plus the culture is such that questioning things instead of following the crowd has always been looked down upon. But I guess that's true of most cultures.

Incidently, some California teacher did an experiment in his class to show how people could get caught up in that sort of regime, and students were almost killed as a consequence. By the same kids who expressed disbelief that people would ever do that. Very chilling. There's a movie about it, and everything.

[billybuckets]

are you talking about the wave, or whatever it was called?

[campbellconey]

i would like to see that movie as well when you guys figure out the name. :-)

[alyxcat]

Yes, I just looked it up. Saw it in 7th grade.

[janniebgood]

Ha ha ha ha ha - I am less anti-tolerant than you!

Oops.

[campbellconey]

anti-anti-tolerant?

[billybuckets]

i got der resistance. according to the survey, its the rarest one. it says im noble and will fight for the right cause, but i really think it really means that im stubborn as a mule and dont like change. ha.

[campbellconey]

good for you! i think when i was younger i would have tested that way when i had a fire in my belly and wanted to fight the world as a whole. now i think i realize how little can be done when the power is in the wrong hands-- which is all very cynical and jaded, but it is what it is.

[campbellconey]

So we'd be together in London then, recalling our glory days in the Black Forest and hoping that 'bit of mess' in Germany would go away so we coudl go home. :-\

[campbellconey]

i wrote a long rambling response to this, now where the heck is it?

[campbellconey]

I've got quite the group of expatriates going to Paris with me in 1932 or 34 or whenver all that went down. we could wear very cute pillbox hats and dresses and drink sherry and talk about the good ol days. :-) this is no surprsie as we are politically neutral thoguh.

[campbellconey]

grand tour! :-) we go to london after the nazis march into france.