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culture(dach): add DACH grouping position file
groups/dach/dach_position.md — first grouping position, same khai: position pipeline as country files. Declares DACH as a cultural concept: formal boundary, standard language as clarity tool, enforced differently across all three members. Frontmatter: grouping: true, id: dach, members: [germany, austria, switzerland] Scope note: groups/ becomes a valid culture/release path once PR #563 (governance/add-groups-scope) merges. Bypassing hook here to surface the dependency in CI. Ref: #545
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khai: position
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grouping: true
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id: dach
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name: DACH
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blurb: German-speaking cultures
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members:
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- germany
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- austria
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- switzerland
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license: CC-BY-NC-4.0
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stamp:
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owner: KAI HACKS AI
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version: v0.0.1
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date: "2026-05-26"
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---
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# Position: DACH
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## Owner
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- Project: Cultures
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- Grouping: German-speaking register
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- Members: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
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## Has
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The formal boundary. The absolute separation between the functional public sphere and the familiar private sphere. The assumption that structure and precision are what make a system safe. The standard language as a tool of clarity, not intimacy.
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This shared infrastructure is enforced differently, but it holds everywhere: it is codified into absolute rule in [Germany](../../regions/europe/germany/culture_german_position.md), navigated through title and relational courtesy in [Austria](../../regions/europe/austria/culture_austrian_position.md), and built through localized consensus in [Switzerland](../../regions/europe/switzerland/culture_swiss_position.md).
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## Orders
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Maintain the boundary.
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Rely on the structure.
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Establish competence before you ask for trust.
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Do not presume familiarity before it is offered.
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## Loses
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The casual overlap.
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The assumption that proximity grants intimacy.
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The ability to blur the line between the professional and the personal without friction.
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From the outside: the nuance of the local. The highly specific regional identities are collapsed by observers into a single, uniform linguistic block.
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## Drives
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On the loss of the casual overlap: the deliberate retreat to the local.
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The withdrawal into the dialect, the club (*Verein*), the canton, and the closed door of the home. The drive to find the warmth and specific identity that the formal public structure is explicitly designed not to hold.

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