Some parts of this sound very similar to me, down to ‘left-wing youth political organisation who likes to sing socialist songs’ (want to PM me which one it was?).
I have noticed before how much more common activist backgrounds are in German EAs vs. Anglo-Saxon EAs. When I talked about it with other people, the main explanation we could come up with was different base rates of sociopolitical activism in the different countries, but I’ve never checked the numbers on that.
Some parts of this sound very similar to me, down to ‘left-wing youth political organisation who likes to sing socialist songs’ (want to PM me which one it was?).
I have noticed before how much more common activist backgrounds are in German EAs vs. Anglo-Saxon EAs. When I talked about it with other people, the main explanation we could come up with was different base rates of sociopolitical activism in the different countries, but I’ve never checked the numbers on that.