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	Contrasting German Cultural Differences from the Outside and Inside by Sybille Reinke de Buitrago and Miguel Buitrago Article Abstract For reprints, please e-mail imqeditor@american.edu
The authors illustrate how perception changes with the perspective of the person: whether one looks at a group of people from the outside versus the inside. The authors consider the case of Germany and German culture to illustrate this. The authors are in a unique position to analyze and contrast the perspective of both the outside and inside, because one author is a person not native to the German culture, but has lived in it for enough time to facilitate a deeper understanding of it, and the other author is a native German, who has also lived outside of Germany. The authors examine a few aspects of German culture – generalized cultural characteristics of Germans as a group – and contrast them from the inside and the outside. Although analysis is focused on the case of Germany , the authors show how knowledge gained can from this case can also be applied to a general approach of understanding other cultures.