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However, the Americans work very hard to achieve all these facilities and most of them are quite expensive. Geoghegan says, “Europe is set up for the bourgeois” (Geoghegan 4). He further adds, “America’s a great place to buy kitty litter at Wall Mart and relatively cheap gas. But it’s not set up for me, a professional without a lot of money.” The story is described in a friendly talkative way, based on casual observations rather than rigorous scientific analysis. The author has defended the economic and political strategy of Europeans.

He also mentions that Germany is Green and gives different reasons to support his statement. Germany supports greenery. It even has a party named “The Green Party”. He also says that people get furious when Germany is attributed as Green. People argue saying that Germany isn’t growing. It is true though, but even the world’s greatest industrial powers do not want to grow either. Keeping in view the environmental hazards they generate like global warming and dangerous toxic waste that pollutes the land and the air; Germans intelligently consume less to avoid raising their GDP.

When Geoghegan came across a boy in the train he said the Germans are frugal because of the after affect of the World War which reminds them of the hard time and economic crises they have gone through (Maina Web). Consequently this threat is being passed on from one generation to the other. The author talks about the good habits of Germans. For instance, the same boy he met on train was reading an English book titled, “The decline and fall of the Roman Empire” by Edward Gibon. Geoghegan mentioned the interest of Germans in politics.

He couldn’t find a person without reading newspapers and that their intellect was higher than an average American. The German boy seemed to prove his perception regarding the Germans. Considering the contemporary conditions of the economy of Europe, in particular, of countries