Kultur 2

I was a little surprised when I read the article on German people's fear for draft. Although people in China are less aware of the open windows, we would still carefully make sure that there's no current directly on our body for a long time, especially when sleeping, because we do attribute many minor diseases (including Durchfall) to a constant draft. In ancient Chinese, cold is literally "wind chill", which speaks for some understanding of the disease.

On the Germanic attitude towards diseases, I would say it's perfectly true that medicine is often double-edged to people's health. Human immune system is fully capable of obliterating many more diseases than people have believed, as long as they allow it some time to self-improve instead of instantly using medicine. Although you won't receive the effect immediately, over a decade or so it really shows.

Other things about German universities are no big news at all. Being an eternal student is very natural if you think of the social welfare in Germany and many other European countries. People lack that motivation to survive, and it's a little ironic that people may earn less if they choose to work instead of being a student or living on the dole.