主题：【原创】笨狼臧否世界英雄-1入围者（旧作） -- 迷途笨狼

German came into formal existence due to the translation of Bible by Martin Luther, so did English and Dutch. All those Germanic languages lack uniform writing and upper-class used Latin or French for communication. Their birth is partially attributed to the translation of Bible.

拉丁词根--are borrowed to create certain words. But average people usually can easily live within their own language blocks and understand people around them (eg., Frenchmen in Spain, Portugal, Italy and vice versa), but not across the block line (e.g., a Spaniard in Germany/Netherlands/Norway/England), though many English words share some Latin roots. Actually, my German/Dutch/Norway/Danish friends all told me that they can communicate in their own mother tones and still understand each other. It does not happen when one German talks to a Spaniard.

Grammatical and writing differences are also huge across the Latin-Germanic line.

法国历史中有太多的北方蛮族成分--日耳曼也好，维京也好，诺曼也好。拉丁次之，凯特尔再次之。

Actually so is Britain!! But Britain and France still treat each other as different cultural groups. You are talking about BLOODLINE, not cultures. For Englishmen, they also have 日耳曼(Anglo-Saxon)，维京(due to Viking invasion)，诺曼(Norman in Northern France as well as Southern England)。拉丁(due to Julius Caesar)，凯特尔(aboriginal people, before Roman invasion)。

so is Spain: spaniards are physically different from each other. It has mixed bloodline of 凯特尔(celtic), Latin, Germanic (due to barbarian invasion) and even Moors (Arabic).

BLOODLINE is all mixed in various European nations. I even have several French friends with German names (because of the loss of Alsace) and German blood, but in Europe, two major languages and cultural blocks are still obvious: that's the latin and the Germanic ones.

In the future, Frenchmen will still choose their Latin friends as partner, not Germans. Frenchmen and Germans are just so so different culturally, even though they may share so much in bloodline. Inside the European Commission, according to my Spanish friend, latin Europeans are working closer with each other than with their Germanic colleagues.

BTW, Hofstede is the guru on cultural studies back in Europe. I post some info here.

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