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Bratwurst Boy   
27 Oct 2018
News / German legal discrimination against Polish speakers [209]

The majority of Brits are actually dead against a second referendum.

Na ja...

The British public now backs a second Brexit referendum

British public wants second referendum if Brexit talks break down, poll says

Bratwurst Boy   
27 Oct 2018
News / German legal discrimination against Polish speakers [209]

The fact is that we all know that The UK will be fine after Brexit

I don't know about that....and that a majority of Brits now want another referendum shows they aren't so sure either....
Bratwurst Boy   
27 Oct 2018
News / German legal discrimination against Polish speakers [209]

The UK makes a successful Brexit that is bad news for The EU,which is why they are trying to ensure that doesn't happen.....evil bastards....

Yeah...sure...the EU can't win, can't she?

Brussel is of course guilty of clipping the wings of the british eagle...and when he won WWII again and broke the EU yoke at last and he still can't fly so well as hoped then it will be of course again the fault of the EU....these evil bastards...

And you fell for that tale, Milo? Really?
Bratwurst Boy   
27 Oct 2018
News / German legal discrimination against Polish speakers [209]

I don't believe that the EU as a trading block is in any imminent danger.

*nods*

Agreed! Most people discuss hotly the politics, the opinions about the common direction differ often wildly, but nobody with two braincells is seriously doubting the many advantages of the Single Market..
Bratwurst Boy   
27 Oct 2018
News / German legal discrimination against Polish speakers [209]

It's so obviously in it`s death throes already.

And even if, what I don't get is why it's seen as a good thing.

Especially the small sized economies will suffer. If they now grate about a felt german dominance what do you think will await them all alone by themselves. Now they sit with Germany at the same table, as equals.

Without the EU it's every country for itself again, with Germany still the most powerful economy with all the right ties and connections and again the inofficial key currency. And these smaller economies not being invited to any table and surely not as equals anymore.

Here is where nationalism becomes self destructive long term, just not smart.

And because it would be such a dumb thing I could believe in a healthy downsizing of the EU and surely the EURO zone, the cutting out of one or two failed, incompatible countries, but never a total demise.
Bratwurst Boy   
27 Oct 2018
News / German legal discrimination against Polish speakers [209]

Poles and Hungarians will probably come running for Germany as long as they can, even more so than now already, before the borders go up again and the EU-wide free movement is binned.
Bratwurst Boy   
27 Oct 2018
News / German legal discrimination against Polish speakers [209]

I've read it's today about 5 million Germans with polish roots in the Ruhr Valley alone...across the country maybe even the double, that would make for at least 10 Mio of them. (To bad that's only estimates and no real statistics)

But besides the naming you wouldn't know it....maybe our cultures are much more similiar and compatible than some PiS hater wants to believe.
Bratwurst Boy   
27 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

An especially messed up story:

zeit.de/1997/15/Der_Held_von_Kursk

A jewish Wehrmacht hero whose folks where murdered during the holocaust...movie worthy!
Bratwurst Boy   
26 Oct 2018
News / German legal discrimination against Polish speakers [209]

But that's about Silesia Iron (you are my pal too btw.), Silesia is no territory of modern Germany anymore, there is no minority rights to give out by the german gov.
Bratwurst Boy   
26 Oct 2018
News / German legal discrimination against Polish speakers [209]

Because Germans had been once natives in these territories (like Breslau..like Danzig)....as the borders had been changed after WWII and the lands were ethnically cleansed and resettled with Eastern Poles. That's why the surving Gemans have there minority status.

Poles had always been immigrants to Germany, never been natives...

That's why Sorbs and Danish have minority rights in Germany too and Poles don't. Otherwise Turks who came as Gastarbeiter during the 60s for example could claim minority rights too...
Bratwurst Boy   
26 Oct 2018
News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

I don't believe the "real men" are very appealing to the liberal city people....one of the reasons why the young people pack their bags and leave their rural villages.

The demographics show this movement very clearly. Not only immigrants go to the big cities, young rural folks to. It's called "urbanization".

I doubt any changed media bias will change that, it's a matter of "voting with their feet"!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization

...Urbanization is not merely a modern phenomenon, but a rapid and historic transformation of human social roots on a global scale, whereby predominantly rural culture is being rapidly replaced by predominantly urban culture. ...

It doesn't look good for the future of the "real men"....
Bratwurst Boy   
25 Oct 2018
News / German legal discrimination against Polish speakers [209]

Sadly the article is hidden behind a paywall for me.

Just use the long link, and on the first link that appears use the cached version of Google...
(Das kleine grüne Dreieck vor "Translate this page")

It is an old one, from 2011
Bratwurst Boy   
25 Oct 2018
News / German legal discrimination against Polish speakers [209]

There's some incomplete information here.

There is more info: webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DacbbxBzM14J: abendblatt.de/hamburg/polizeimeldungen/article106540403/Wojciech-Pomorski-und-sein-Kampf-gegen-die-Stadt-Hamburg.html
Bratwurst Boy   
25 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

The new challenge is to figure out a way to make economies work with fewer and older people.

For that we need the Digital Revolution to take up pace...right now Germany's and also Poland's economy are starved for laborers, they need them still to function...
Bratwurst Boy   
25 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

Interesting:

Germany sees dramatic rise in citizenship applications by British Jews

timesofisrael.com/germany-sees-dramatic-rise-in-citizenship-applications-by-british-jews

Fears of the UK leaving the EU and rising anti-Semitism thought to be behind move to reclaim passports stripped from their families by the Nazis

Many of them are descendants of the famous "Kindertransporte", as the UK saved many children from the Nazis...now they are coming back because of the Brexit...astounding.
Bratwurst Boy   
25 Oct 2018
News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

I would rather say there exists two kind of glasses...and the liberal city folk just uses a different one than the rural folks...doesn't mean one is better than the other. Just that two groups of peeple have different kinds of viewpoints, wants and needs.

A "hipster" would not feel at home between "rednecks" and the other way around...

Thing is that the liberal mega cities are growing and winning, they get all the young people and generate the most wealth...so it's to expect that their views will count more. I don't know how to change that development.