Markus Fuenfrocken wrote:
> Lawrence Glickman wrote:
> [...]
>> All the time...they maintain an enormous amount of humility, but do
>> not let that betray the genius that is in their minds.
> Wow, so much praises for my country - but i think you=B4re stereotyping=
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> bit here ;)
> This is getting quite OT in a photo group, but let me tell you this:
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> German, went to the Gymnasium (you remembered correctly) and then to=20
> University, and i would say the relative amount of lowlifes, dumb asses=
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> normal people and really brillant people is similar to every other=20
> country in the world. Due to our immense social security system we do=20
> not have as much social problems (homeless, really poor folks) here yet=
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> but it=B4s getting worse here, too.
> And we=B4re defintely not all Albert Einsteins, and we=B4re not running=
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> around wearing leather trousers, eating Schnitzel and quoting Goethe or=
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> Schiller all day ;) LOL
Bitte, Markus.
Stereotyping is stereotyping, be it favorable or damning.
There are more than a couple of xenophobes roaming in these groups.
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john mcwilliams


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