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Bratwurst Boy   
26 Sep 2021
Off-Topic / Foreign news in Polish media [108]

......okay......then probably another grey mouse called Laschet!

I'm not that exhilarated either....a "Neuanfang" that is not!
Bratwurst Boy   
26 Sep 2021
Off-Topic / Foreign news in Polish media [108]

Who will become the new Chancellor?

Probably a grey mouse called Scholz.....
Bratwurst Boy   
3 Sep 2021
Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

meant as a test since I know everything.

Still....IMHO it is boring to surround yourself with likeminded posters. It's like talking to a mirror...

If you are interested in real discussions you should look out for different opinions....then take them apart with facts....try to convince them....try to see things from their perspective....avoid to demean them because that's mostly the end of any fruitful exchange...and you will have alot more fun, promise! :)

PS: I don't think I changed that much?
Bratwurst Boy   
3 Sep 2021
Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

I hope you can see the level and the intensity of my German patriotism from that run-on sentence above...

Yeah...I see you waving the german flag through my web cam! :)

....next you will tell me you support the german Fußballmannschaft....

Do you Germans at least keep records where these a-holes came from

German citizens are probably one of the most documented people (outside of a dictatorship)....the duty for papers of any kind for every occasion runs high.

But for foreigner it depends...the older ones came invited during the West-German "Wirtschaftswunder".....mostly southern Europeans and Turks....they and their descendants are as well documented as native Germans by now.

The newer ones? Not so much!

The problem with many immigrants nowadays is that they come from regions where that isn't so orderly. Often papers get lost (they say, even as they manage to hold onto their expensive smartphone somehow)....more often they just lie to get in the "asylants of the month Germany is sympathetic to" group hoping for better chances to be accepted.

So, that brings us to the current most annoying conundrum of the german immigration policies - even if someone has no chances to get legally accepted, even when he becomes a criminal, without a real documented country to be shoven back to (always assumed said home country wants him back in the first place) he has to stay...in the worst case for infinity...supported by the teeth grinding german taxpayer!

....and you talk about some future, heh:)
Bratwurst Boy   
3 Sep 2021
Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

Well, as a Chancellor of Germany you need to at least try to include ALL of your citizens....that makes for some curious word contortions from the top brass like:

"The Islam doesn't fit into Germany - but Muslims do"

Most people can agree with that...it just doesn't make much sense!
Bratwurst Boy   
3 Sep 2021
Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

There is again a misunderstanding :)

The question in that survey was loaded, because it wasn't about demographic stats but more about the feeling/opinion about muslims and their religion....as in: Of course belongs Christianity to Germany.....but does Islam?

Merkel thinks so, but two thirds of the Germans don't! Only 5% agree fully (survey from 2021).

rp-online.de/panorama/religion/fuer-viele-buerger-gehoert-der-islam-gar-nicht-zu-deutschland_aid-59214829
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Sep 2021
Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

(even though most of my people come from Germany)

True? :)

Serious question: If there was such a survey in the US as in Germany recently...what do you think would the majority say, does the Islam belong to the US?
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Sep 2021
Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

More and more people in the EU have two or even three official ID's.....legally! That's crazy!
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Sep 2021
Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

Europe is different. I could never be French, German, or Italian. Or British.

I wouldn't call it "class" but definitely exclusivity....the belief in the power of a passport is here not as high as it is not able to change your identity that much. If I , for example, would immigrate to Japan I would still be a German, never become a Japanese, japanese ID not withstanding.

But yes, with an USian ID I would probably become a real American...over night....mind boggling but true!
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Sep 2021
Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

It's really a cultural thing I believe....on Twitter there is a turkish German active and quite popular who has done the impossible and became an infidel. As it is impossible to just "leave" Islam....there is no way to do that like you would leave a Church....and it is of course forbidden. But he did it, became an outspoken atheist....outed himself as gay and shows his stone age "brothers" daily the finger.

He is as popular with Germans and westernized Turks as he is hated by religious muslims. That makes him much easier acceptable in Germany than his enemies!

He has decided to go an unbelievably hard, stony and potentially dangerous way but he keeps going nonetheless...

What would Darwin say to that?
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Sep 2021
Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

This might though have changed over the past several years,

Not really....it's still hard to accept a headscarf Aishe or an islam-preacher-beard Ali with their Ramadan and Mosque-goings as Germans. Even as they are born here and speak perfekt German....many call them "Pass-Deutsche"...compared to the native "Kartoffeln" or "Almans"....*shrugs*

That is especially striking during the search for jobs and appartements....they have it much harder!

A majority still says in every survey that the Islam doesn't belong to Germany...its really a cultural thing....Poles and other Europeans for example had mostly been fully "germanized" after one generation...
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Sep 2021
History / What do Poles think about Turks? [761]

Interestingly Iraqi Kurds seem to be very, very different from Turkish Kurds

There have been studies about that:

....In the report of October 2018, DFAT further noted, 'Eastern and south eastern Turkey have historically been less developed than other parts of the country, with lower incomes, higher poverty rates, less industry, and less government investment. The Kurdish population is socio-economically diverse: while many are very poor, particularly in rural areas and the south-east, a Kurdish middle class is growing in urban centres, particularly in western Turkey.'22

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/866094/Country_policy_and_information_note_Kurds_Turkey_February_2020.pdf

These regions are culturally closer to the tribal society of Afghanistan...but on the other hand we have in Germany a rising numbers of politicians of kurdish origins, mostly with the LINKE and den GRÜNEN....women even, educated, independent, no headscarf in sight...yes, they are extremely diverse!

I wonder how a statehood would work if they should really achieve their own country sometime in the future...with such diverse realities of life.
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Sep 2021
History / What do Poles think about Turks? [761]

....not necessarily! Did you ever hear about the "Grey Wolves"?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Wolves_(organization)

They are big in Germany and directly influenced by the hard core nationalists, fascists even at home...even if living in Germany already for the second or third Generation. Erdogan ist known to use them for support. He even uses their salute, the "wolf sign"!



They are at least as bad as some Kurds....

Yes, the turkish diaspora is heavily divided!
Bratwurst Boy   
26 Aug 2021
Polonia / POLES vs BULGARIANS [160]

Nope!

I remember singing loudly and happily: "Wir fahr'n nach Lotsch" :)
Bratwurst Boy   
26 Aug 2021
Polonia / POLES vs BULGARIANS [160]

Thank you! :)

I just recognize that "lods" dilemma....heh:)
Bratwurst Boy   
25 Aug 2021
Polonia / POLES vs BULGARIANS [160]

I hasten to add: "Let's try Polish" :)


Bratwurst Boy   
20 Aug 2021
Genealogy / Polish equivalent of William [16]

Wilhelm Name Meaning

German: from the Germanic personal name Willahalm, composed of the elements wil 'will', 'desire' + helm 'helmet', 'protection'.

*likes that name*
Bratwurst Boy   
7 Aug 2021
History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

You all know what?

We are all survivors here....we can only here talk with each other (and insult each other) because our families somehow made it through!

Okay...the end of the Cold War and the discovery of the Internet might have something to do with that too....but that would mean nothing if our own parents/grandparents hadn't proven to be stronger or smarter or luckier than many others and survived....

*takes helmet and bows out*
Bratwurst Boy   
7 Aug 2021
History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

It means that Germans as those who waged an unjust war even if they suffered in consequence of it.....

Are you saying my mother was guilty?

Following that thought one could say the Jews deserved the Holocaust because of what jewish communists and jewish bankers allegedly did.....

Nothing is clear!

And no, it isn't only the scale, it's the INTENT what counts....
Bratwurst Boy   
6 Aug 2021
History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Why? Iron and me were discussing which mass murder would count as genocide and which not....

Or you are looking for justifications for mass murder....that is a slippery path, it could end in a Holocaust and many people thinking the victims deserved their fate!