the 4 types of national anthems:
- Gosh, This Sure is an Attractive Piece of Land We've Got Here
- That One War in Particular was a Doozy
- We Only Sing Parts of This Song Now Because the Other Verses are Racist
- We Speak French and We Will Fucking Kill You
@Janko @VeryBadLlama Germany for example. Now only the third verse of the original anthem is the German national anthem.
One verse had the text "Germany, Germany over everything" in it. And we all know where that mindset lead to.
@meowlygrowly @morfydd @Janko @VeryBadLlama But that's Germany's history. Germany as one entity isn't that old. Before, there were all these little kingdoms and baronies... and those got united into a "German Empire" (Bismark played a big role in this).
So to keep that unity you also had to have a hymn that promoted unity. 😌
@Glatorius @meowlygrowly @morfydd @Janko @VeryBadLlama The text to the German national anthem is actually older than the German nation state and was written on Helgoland in 1841. British at that time. And Germany as a "united fatherland" was at that time the unattainable dream of German democrats ...
So the first two verses are rather not sung anymore because they can only be misunderstood without the right temporal context and especially after the 2nd World War started by Germany.
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