Have the Germans absolutely NO racial sensitivity?
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posted by He sings @ 8:09 PM
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These are commentaries on life as I know it. It can be the quickened, pulsating breath you feel as the roller coaster inches its was over the ride's summit. It can be the calming breeze on the dusk of a warm day, sitting in isolation, reflecting on beauty or loves once had. It, life, can be everything that you will it to be.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Commentary on life and all that it contains.
These are commentaries on life as I know it. It can be the quickened, pulsating breath you feel as the roller coaster inches its was over the ride's summit. It can be the calming breeze on the dusk of a warm day, sitting in isolation, reflecting on beauty or loves once had. It, life, can be everything that you will it to be.
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4 Comments:
Welcome back Josh!
The whole thing seems to be a clusterfuck of ideas, with the Golden Gate bridge, curry sauce, the flag, and, Obama fingers. Were they trying to shoot for something that screamed "it's as American as apple pie, or, wait, SF eclecticism with patriotic flag and racist fried chicken + African American connection...maybe..."
And, yet, my guess is that this is a backwards compliment? I mean, there weren't any deep-fried Bush assholes in German groceries during his term, right?
Usually the Germans are very careful with their language nowadays. It's "Schokokuss" now, it used to be called "Negerkuss" and this is not racially accepted any longer.
Same goes for Auslaender. It became a "Mensch mit Migrationshintergrund". What a word.
But no idea how "Obama's fingers" could be accepted on the market. On top of it with curry dip. Weird stuff.
The funny thing about "Mensch mit Migrationshintergrund" is that it is a way that Germans describe even people who were born in Germany but to foreign parents. Reminds me a bit of how the Germans now call the DDR the "Neue Bundesländer." But, what do we call someone like me, who really is an Ausländer, and for whom that term is in no way insulting? :)
The funny thing is that when I ask people to please be forgiving of my sometimes overly-direct German, because I lack finesse at times "because I am a foreigner", the reply is often "You are not a foreigner; you are an American." I always found that interesting if not dumbfounding. :)
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