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A student exchange to provincial USA
TAZ ^ | 07.11.16 | Paulina Unfried

Posted on 11/06/2016 7:20:31 PM PST by European Guest

At age 17 our author – a left-liberal, big-city Berlin girl – wants to go to New York, and lands up in Minnesota amongst nothing but Trump fans. What now?


TOPICS: Education; Religion; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: exchange; germany; student
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An Article from a notorius leftist newspaper in Germany that is indeed very funny. It shows the fundamental differences between contemporary Europe and America.
1 posted on 11/06/2016 7:20:31 PM PST by European Guest
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To: European Guest

A translator, that’s what now.


2 posted on 11/06/2016 7:23:57 PM PST by madison10 (Praying for team Trump.)
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To: European Guest

„What language do you speak in Germany?“


Arabic???


3 posted on 11/06/2016 7:29:08 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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No. We do not speak Arabic.


4 posted on 11/06/2016 7:31:30 PM PST by European Guest (De omnibus dubitandum)
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To: European Guest

Sounds like she made most of it up while sitting in Berlin.


5 posted on 11/06/2016 7:34:22 PM PST by piasa
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This girl comes off as a very snooty, spoiled, arrogant, condescending prick


6 posted on 11/06/2016 7:36:20 PM PST by Spruce
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What this junior leftist prat shows me (again) is that Germans are very willing and apt to accept strong social and political propaganda - fascism, socialism, multiculturalism - it doesn’t matter. Germans are mostly strong conformists.

And once again, they will send themselves and Europe into an abyss.


7 posted on 11/06/2016 7:36:28 PM PST by PGR88
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“Germans are mostly strong conformists.”

And gullible - easy to be led.


8 posted on 11/06/2016 7:53:57 PM PST by aquila48
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Well, in the moment here in Europe we are still far away from any abyssals. Nevertheless there is big difference in ethnologial and if Trump will be president also political matters. Most Germans see Americans more critical than in the past. You should not forget that the Russians left Germany 25 years ago while the US are still there with their millitary. This is something that big majorities in Germany refuse. The US deployment in Germany is a left-over elite-project of Merkel and Obama. It might be the time to change that.


9 posted on 11/06/2016 7:55:12 PM PST by European Guest (De omnibus dubitandum)
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The US deployment in Germany is a left-over elite-project of Merkel and Obama. It might be the time to change that.

NATO's mission ended 25 years ago. It should have been dismantled then. instead, it is a statist, globalist project that stands guard over the fundamental transformation of Europe. I can see how it can be viewed as a form of American control or occupation. I hope to God President Trump dismantles NATO as his first act. Let the Europeans defend themselves.

10 posted on 11/06/2016 8:04:05 PM PST by PGR88
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Good idea.


11 posted on 11/06/2016 8:25:07 PM PST by European Guest (De omnibus dubitandum)
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At the end she says that, thanks to her visit to the village in the cornfields, she is now open to dating a conservative.

Her mind was opened a crack.


12 posted on 11/06/2016 8:25:18 PM PST by AZLiberty (A is no longer A, but a pull-down menu.)
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The US deployment in Germany is a left-over elite-project of Merkel and Obama.
...WW2. Soviet Union/Russia. West Berlin/East Berlin. NATO...anything ring a bell?
Regarding Obama and Merkel. European "union" and probable collapse, massive Islamic immigration, rebounding anti-Semitism...anything ring a bell?

It might be the time to change that.
Be careful what you wish for.
In the meantime, maybe you should read something that doesn't involve crayons.

13 posted on 11/06/2016 8:25:18 PM PST by norton
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The EU is our problem not yours and the cold war is over. We simply want the last occupation troops go home. There is no need for them anymore.


14 posted on 11/06/2016 8:32:17 PM PST by European Guest (De omnibus dubitandum)
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To: madison10

Germans are bovine in nature. They are satisfied to stand and chew their cud while they are being milked.


15 posted on 11/06/2016 8:36:16 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: European Guest

You don’t post very often. Why did you choose this story?


16 posted on 11/06/2016 8:36:51 PM PST by PGR88
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The US military presence is minuscule compared to Cold War levels. That Germans think what’s left is a big issue says more about the success of cultural Marxism, Euro variant, than it does about the US.


17 posted on 11/06/2016 8:59:42 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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In defense of the student herself, she does seem to have the beginnings of a grip on reality by the time she returns to Germany; but I don't much appreciate the “provincial” thing & I have to think there is a distinction between “rights” and “privileges” in German.
18 posted on 11/06/2016 9:00:48 PM PST by norton
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Bingo. That nails it for me.

There’s a nice article here this weekend about the Russians’ latest tank design. I wonder how many Leopard 2s the Germans still have operational?


19 posted on 11/06/2016 9:04:29 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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“No. We do not speak Arabic.”

Not yet, anyway.


20 posted on 11/06/2016 9:21:09 PM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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