Fair point. My take from UK history lessons last century was that the 1871 'German' entity was in hindsight a very early example of centralization of smaller nation states rebranded as'Germany'. There are arguably traces of this logic in the formation of the original EEC which gradually expanded into the vast and homogenizing EU entities today. Globalization is arguably a stratospheric layer above the EU, US, China etc etc that is rendering the old nation state paradigms of less and less importance, something I don't like...

Sitting here and writing this from Louisiana I _strongly_ beg to differ with your notion of American homogenization.

I'm in California, I agree that the idea that the US is fully homogenized is overblown

I'm a Californian, transplanted to the Midwest 25 years ago, and the idea that Americans are homogenized is hogwash. Sure we all have mostly the same strip malls/nationwide businesses, but the difference between the states is still pretty high. My town even has a "Germans from Russia" museum that chronicles their unique history. The same with the Nordic and Scandinavian influences in the Dakotas. Many have similarities, but also wide differences.

Germany has integrated immigrants from all over Europe and beyond, a large Turkish community, Italians, Syrians, and from many other European and non-European countries, so it is in fact heading towards more diversity instead of more homogeneity.

What you could say is that this trend is counter-acted by stronger, general cultural unification trend due to mass media (the Internet, mostly) and the influence of large, multi-national corporations. That trend is global, though, and has nothing to do with Germany in particular.

That Germany is a very young country is also obviously true, as it was united only in 1871. The fact that Germany as a nation played no substantial role in world politics earlier, but only varying fractions who were often opposed to each other and had many wars among each other, was in the end one of the many catalysts of WW1 and WW2. But that's another story, of course.

I agree with you if what you want to say is that the fact that Germany is very young has no particular bearing on its current economy. I don't see the connection either. But the rest of your post is moot.