Germany - The Great Mirage
I’ve been working in IT Sales or sales related roles here in Ireland for quite some time now, and one of the comments I’ve been getting quite a lot is just how backwards this country must seem to me given that I come from such a technologically advanced place as Germany. This is usually followed by stunned incredulity when I tell them about the facts on the ground, and how much of the perception of Germany is actually just a mirage. To put it bluntly, Germany’s image of a technologically advanced country is part accidental, and part carefully crafted illusion. Now that does not mean that Germany is some backward place populated with hordes of marauding brutes, no matter how plausible that seems given your last encounters with Germans on Majorca or the Canary Islands. Germany is a world leader in many sectors, it‘s aerospace industry is second to none, as is it‘s heavy industry sector, even though the latter has shrunk considerably over the last decades. And I doubt I have to write m...