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General Billing, Part 2 - German democracy

Einiges vorweg:
Ich bin nicht nur kritisch gegenüber Deutschland. Ich habe meine Probleme auch with the rest of Europe. Even with Asia and America and Australia in particular. I've always been a very, very difficult relationship with Germany had. From the perspective of a foreigner there really many bad things I have seen and of which I would tell you in this posting. But I also know that the Germans of my generation are actually really different than the Germans of the generations before them. They are ordinary people. As good or shit like the people in other places. And just as little (or just as much) racists, Nazis or anti-Semites as people elsewhere.
I will not say that there is no discrimination elsewhere. I will in this context, the following say
first Although it is also discrimination elsewhere, it makes Germany, in comparison, not a better place (the recipient of this statement feels addressed hopefully).
second Yes, I do think that there are a lot of countries where there are far fewer legal or other formal discrimination against foreign nationals than in Germany.
third Of course, bothers me the discrimination that I experience here. But what really upsets me is that many German keep their land for very tolerant. The German company is not a particularly tolerant. It is actually not too much out of the frame. But I think Germany in a European comparison actually come off quite badly. EU authority against discrimination because all my opinion. Excites me, especially the contradiction between expectations and reality in this country. And that bothers me at all companies that want to hear any of it or not bind to the nose, as they achso tolerant but was: Australia, Denmark, Netherlands ...
I also know the many good people who live in this country who treat their fellow man unconditionally regardless of their origin or their skin color.
But believe me when I see the football reports, reports in which Kerner, Beckmann and his associates, which were great hosts for the Germans, then it hurts. And it raises in me Nausea, disgust and fury.
Yes, I think Germany is a bit worse than the "average". I think there is no principle difference iller, only one of degree. I believe that Germany is not worse at the worlds as "average." But I think Germany is worse.

Sunday and now the actual posting.
General Billing, Part 2 - German democracy

flag Where do you see the German?
a) On a military jacket
b) On a staff
c) Nowhere

This question is from the mirror, and of course the answer given by the mirror to be correct c).
I know that only in the mirror is less manure than in the image, but still very much crap. But when I stepped out the door today on the street, this self-proclaimed greatest magazine in the world lies not clearly could have been punished. Black, red and gold everywhere. At first it scared me. But then I gradually came to realize that there is no reason to. Most people are not nationalists. And the flags are generally not an expression of dull CDU patriotism. Germany, most Germans simply love the way I did it: because they are in Germany. Just as one is Barmbeker or hamburgers. There has never been something I would have loved about Germany. And no matter how much I think about it - and write this I am not from bitterness, but simply because it is so - there is nothing that is particularly endearing to Germany. And I know that many feel this way. Especially in Germany. How else would explain such comments as: Despite the deep democratic tradition of the Federal Republic of Germany in Europe, we are still pretty unpopular. This is from Spiegel TV, not mine. Love someone because he or she is democratic? But unlikely. But what Germany has been different to offer except its democracy?
I have in the 24 years that I live here, met many good people. And I know that what I wrote in my previous article, many Germans is difficult to convey. Particularly if one is beech, just because you're living pretty much the opposite of all that I have written about Germany. I know a lot of German, to which this applies not to, are not "typical" German. But none so explicitly the opposite of which is like beech. What I
- also under the impression the events of recent days - have written is, of course, formulated harder than the reality. And it certainly sounds even harder than I meant it. But in essence I am convinced of this, not only since yesterday, but very, very long time. Yesterday Marc
called to me: 'Boy, demonstrating rain against Nazis!
My answer sounded a lot harsher than I had intended. I told him that I would not protest against Nazis. That it is in my view a matter for the Germans to say whether they are for or against the Browns. But I have not said out of bitterness about my current situation, but out of conviction. I thought so, as demonstrations and fairy lights at the events of Mölln, Solingen, Rostock-Lichtenhagen, Hoyerswerda ... were held, and acted. Especially me, who else was at every demo there.
Another reason that I do not mitdemonstriere is that, I'm not against that. I have a different view of democracy than the people in Germany. Germany is a country that for 12 years the opposite of democracy and embodied in the time before that is not too good with democracy had neither (What did the country as early as the era?). And then within 5 years from zero to one hundred percent democracy? This is what those who you look as fathers and mothers of the West German democracy, not credited to their countrymen. Because they knew that democracy in Germany was not grown in France, Great Britain or the United States. She was a forced democracy, which the Germans before the Allies - had been kneeling - particularly the United States. They did not know whether it would work, and that is why the German democracy a lot of security devices that are not necessarily in other countries There. This also includes the legal instruments to combat the enemies of democracy. I think a democracy, you have to endure that even Nazis have a right to free speech. And of course people must stand up against it.
German democracy is certainly technically precise and sophisticated than the democracies in the U.S. or UK with some very antiquated voting systems or their jurisdiction. And that the Germans are proud of. Wrongly, in my opinion. Because I think it speaks not just for a people when it relies on something if it does not work without double security systems. The democracies in other countries have their faults. When you think of the electoral system in the USA, UK or France thinks if you look at the jurisdiction in the States. But the errors do not jeopardize the survival of democracy in these countries. And in the following I would like to explain you that Democracy in Germany by no means the unwavering German oak is that it seems to be many.
I want to show you a world that you probably do not know about a German. The world of foreigners.
It's easy to say that you want to learn German, integrate. But it is not so easy to do.
Until I moved to RLH, I barely had German friends. My experiences with Germans as friends were all negative. In my school were foreigners German among themselves and in each case. But it was not such a thing as racial segregation, it has been playing football together and celebrate time is gone. But they just had different views. And so were Yugoslavs and Russians and Koreans closer than German. Without malicious intent. In my circles of friends I have learned that when it matters, the Germans have held each other and you as a foreigner was aussenvor. And it took a long time before this I distrust you could wipe over. And just because you're not like all the German "friends" I had so far, appears to you much of what I say and write, unjust. And I'm also tired. I know that It is unfair to you.
It is hard to describe what this invisible wall that runs between foreigners and Germans and brought slowly to fall. It starts with knowing your rights as a foreigner, its not as good, or how to take the rights. We do not know how to assess his chances in the society and the legal system. We do not know how to assess the Germans. Welded together and the Turks, Ghanaians, Yugoslavia and Koreans.
There are also simple to explain, things that stand between Germans and foreigners. If you have a foreign feel of system, not to be recognized by the society, no chance to get on to the inlet, it is also difficult to accept the rules. Why should they? And if you do not recognize the rules, this increases not just the probability to find too inlet into society. A vicious circle that is really hard to break.
You take things as foreigners differently. Particularly burned into my perception of Germany have Mölln and Solingen. Events of which we rarely even think as a German might. I clearly remember the discomfort that I felt when I was 14 years in the 7th Class on a school trip in Mölln was. And just as I had passed this feeling and almost wanted to tell me that the People in Mölln but ordinary people were not all fanatical Nazis as a child was on the road towards me and shouted: self, a Turk!
It sounds funny, even for me. But it was enough to awaken all my inner fears anew. Sure, it was only a child, only one child. But where does a child who was too young for school, this? And how do I know that but think a significant number of Möllner so? For a German it is easy to strip something. But to belong to a minority escape characterized by helplessness, such situations can be. If you are among many black as white, then perhaps numerically in this one moment in the minority. But it does not change the social weather situation. And that's the point. One is in a weaker position, feels vulnerable, and one can not help it. And what causes mistrust, which in the United States sometimes seems to paralyze an entire nation. But it is also the effort of a company can grow. Wal-Mart
came in 1989 to Germany with the acquisition of the purchase value chain. In Hamburg at Wertkauf no Turks were admitted. Up until the 1980s. Who knows whether that without the takeover by Wal-Mart would not have been in the 1990 Sun I had forgotten this fact from my childhood have almost if I am not a Turkish friend (not Birol) would have remembered. He had been dismissed by his parents at the door. I have never experienced themselves. But my father told me about it, it was with a Turkish friend of the inlet have been denied.
The Thomas Read was before, when I began to study, announced that it took in no Turks. And I still remember how uncomfortable Birol is four or five years, felt like I dragged him there after I had heard that the shop had changed its policy. And indeed, we came in. When I was a teenager, it was not in Hamburg came in a variety of shops, in the Turks. The Most are also not tried. So it was probably not too much on.
1990, my family and I moved from Barmbek to Ohlsdorf. When I was around the corner from us for the first time bought at the bakery to put a group of blond German girl at the door and shouted in chorus: Small Chinese, Chinese small. Of these girls, none bigger or older than me. Most were later classmates of my little sister. And none of them from high school has done. But Ohlsdorf Ohlsdorf called because it is a village. There was in our street with a Buddhist community center. Whenever the New Year's Eve firecrackers went off, gathered the boys of the area before and insulted and threw the "Scheissbuddhis with firecrackers. And often during the year. Many of the "Scheissbuddhis" were friends of our family.
The list could go on for a long time. This should be no indictment. I just want to open those (specifically, one of you) the eyes of this country who think that Germany was somehow better than any other country.
I also know that she has just done in the last five to ten years a lot in Germany. Strangely, my perception was
East Germany always different. In 1991 I was the first time in Meck'Pomm on school trips. And like the two times after that I had with my class to travel in the new countries that are We were greeted by groups of locals with xenophobic slogans. However, it has shaped my image of the East before. But after a seemingly endless number of rechtsexremistischen harassment, violence, murder, I must admit: The right wing won. I'm afraid of the East. Although not yet Mölln Solingen in the east are .* I know that there are many good people in the east. But it takes only a few, perhaps only one, to take my life.
This whole thing pisses me off too, especially in light of the current "integration debate" ("Learning German or go home") at. Why should it be integrated into a country where it is unwanted? And do not say that it is not it should be. gave repatriation programs for foreigners in the 1980s only in Germany. no longer needed as the foreigners were, since they could cease to be grateful that they were allowed to work here. And just think of the Vietnamese, who were allowed to slave away as migrant workers legally in the GDR and then after the change over the last 10 years have shown no mercy. One wonders why this whole show in Rostock-Lichtenhagen, when should the slanted eyes are always reported. Why demonstrate against foreigners? Why protect the foreigners from the mob? How can one not feel as a foreigner because as a commodity? No, Germany is really a racist and xenophobic Country to other comparable countries. I'm sorry, but it is. All this had long been a part of my view of Germany. Only part of the other views faced. And now prevailed. For it is the part that I see most clearly confirmed (most clearly stole). Over and over and over again.


__________________ * Although, Mölln in Schleswig-Holstein, and therefore quasi-east.