Podcast "Independence – Section 1"

"The Inevitable"

On the microphone: Jule Hock, J. Marc Reichow and Ekkehard Windrich

_{^{0:50 - On the US today: Jule Hock's perspective
1:40 - Image of the USA, biographical (1): On reluctance to visit as a travel destination
2:40 - On history education in schools, both good and bad
3:30 - On the tone of voice whipped up by fear
3:50 - On the topic of American independence
4:22 - Image of the USA, biographical (2): About our liberators
5:00 - Image of the USA, biographical (3): About violence in American TV series – or: The USA as a mass media real-life experiment?
6:20 - On geopolitics and power politics before the mass media
6:45 - On the motives behind this music program and the necessity of polite polemical restraint
7:20 - On the U.S. Declaration of INdependence as a litany of anti-colonial and anti-monarchist accusations
8:11 - On the motives behind American independence from England
8:30 - On the motives for the colonization of North America and the first United States as a society of self-assured settlers}}