Word: followership
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lemmings have a peculiar habit of followership that results in mass migrations often ending in death by drowning...
These signs of assertiveness are the more unsettling because they represent such a departure from Germany's postwar behavior. For four decades its foreign policy has been one of self-effacing followership, never leadership. To Germans, the worst political sin was Alleingang, going it alone. Boastfulness was bad, even when such accomplishments as the postwar economic miracle justified a certain degree of pride; any reference to success was routinely followed by a word of gratitude to the Western Allies and a word of apology for the Nazi past...