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\"annette-schavan\"<\/a>It’s interesting to compare across cultures how politicians run into trouble from their personal behavior.\u00a0 In the USA having an affair can get you into hot water.\u00a0 In France, not a big deal.\u00a0 The ultimate\u00a0 no-no for American politicians may be saying you’re an atheist.\u00a0 Lately in Germany, it’s been plagiarism that has gotten two of Angela Merkel’s ministers into trouble.\u00a0 Two years ago, the wonderfully named Karl-Theodor von und zu Guttenberg was forced to resign from being Minister of Defense after it was discovered that he had plagiarized passages in his Ph.D. dissertation.\u00a0 At the time he was the most popular politician in Germany.\u00a0 Now, the current Minister of Education, Annette Schavan, has been found by a university panel to be guilt of plagiarism in her Ph.D. thesis.\u00a0 It’s particular troublesome, as she oversees German universities.<\/p>\n

For German politicians having advanced academic degree can be a big plus (unless , of course, they’re caught cheating).\u00a0 That’s quite a difference from the U.S. where politicians don’t want to be labeled intellectual eggheads.\u00a0 George W. Bush promoted himself by talking up his Texas roots, not his ivy league degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s interesting to compare across cultures how politicians run into trouble from their personal behavior.\u00a0 In the USA having an affair can get you into hot water.\u00a0 In France, not a big deal.\u00a0 The ultimate\u00a0 no-no for American politicians may be saying you’re an atheist.\u00a0 Lately in Germany, it’s been plagiarism that has gotten two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[38,69,32],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comparing-culrues","tag-germany","tag-plagiarism","tag-usa"],"yoast_head":"\nCopy or have sex? 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