German looking bloaks and English continuance

Last week I bought a new hood. I bought it in the H&M in London and when I first spotted it I thought: a nice looking hat, looks a little bit like the ones that have been worn in the Cuban revolution.
For young Germans the Cuban Revolution is a rather positive thing because it is associated with Che Guevara, the hero of the lefties. Most of these lefties have their origin in 1968.
In 1968 something changed in Germany. A socio-cultural revolution that is still reverberating in the very foundation of our society. It was a deep cut that ran and still runs through our society. The hippy movement and the flower power movement came to Germany in the sixties and was welcomed as a new beginning. At this point of time there were still a lot of Nazis in their old jobs because the English and the Americans saw the necessity to keep them in office to keep the system working. Most of the Germans tried to forget the atrocities of the disastrous third Reich shortly after WWII. In the sixties this changed and a very lively debate about the atrocities started. The debate was initiated by the hippy movement that could be seen throughout the world and eventually came to Germany.
The hippy movement questioned the foundation pillars of our society and especially those of our university system. This left wing movement saw most of our history as a tremendous mistake and advocated a new start and a clear cut. Revolutions are quite normal in German history. The whole endeavour to create a German nation one hundred and fifty years ago was marked by upheaval. This chain of change goes right through our history: the revolution 1848/49 (democratic), the unification under Prussia 1971, the creation of the Weimarer republic 1919, the takeover of Hitler 1933, the end of the WWII 1945, the creation of two German states, the social changes in 1968 and the fall of the Berlin wall 1989.

Every time the change was utter and fundamental. This is what defines our nation, a nation of change. It is not always for the bad, actually it was for the good most of the time. People tend to forget that.
So as I sad, I bought a hat in London and I thought it looked leftie. The reactions of the English was a little different than I had expected. Ben, my housemate told me that I looked quite German with it. It was not until two weeks of wearing it that I was told why I looked so German with it. In the English cultural heritage the second world war is still very present. They do not consider the social changes that have shaped the German society after that. As a result they thought I looked like a German soldier of the Africa Corp- faltering (irony!). Because of this I decided not to wear it.

After all we are a nation of change even though this is not noticed everywhere. England is different. It has evolved over centuries without any mayor interruptions. This gradual continuance shapes England and its people. Class thinking is still present and they still have no written constitution. Major social changes are gradually and not as abrupt as in Germany. So which way is better? The Germans have proven to history that a stable society and democracy can be started in an instant. If this has to do with a special character of Germans as people or if it is rather to make a virtue of necessity I can not evaluate.