>>213833485Because they think they're super unique and shit and it doesn't matter how shitty their country and their way of life is, they'd still die protecting it from anything, see WW2 when they killed their own Saxon brothers and sacrificed their own empire so 80 years later they could be a minority on their own home island.
Their government is very much aware of their misguided pride, so they're tyrannymaxxing at every aspect of life, knowing full well that their subjects (that's what they legally are) won't do shit, because they'll always fall back to some retarded cope like 'at least we're not speaking German'.