Germany – Globalistan http://globalistan.org Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:21:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.17 “I loved him…once the World Trade Center came down, I changed my mind” http://globalistan.org/racism-under-the-covers/ http://globalistan.org/racism-under-the-covers/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:21:51 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=61 This week two stories related to racist discrimination caught my eye. The first of these is from Dresden, not too far from a our beloved Leipzig, within a region that has been host to a spate of racist attacks. It was while Marwa el-Sherbini was in the dock recalling how the accused had insulted her […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/racism-under-the-covers/feed/ 3 A World Beyond Stereotypes: A life in Leipzig, Germany http://globalistan.org/a-world-beyond-stereotypes-a-life-in-leipzig-germany/ http://globalistan.org/a-world-beyond-stereotypes-a-life-in-leipzig-germany/#respond Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:53:39 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=49 Thereafter I walked to the Hauptbahnhof and a drunken young man passed me and shouted “hail Hitler” and it was at that precise moment, that I thought to myself welcome to Germany the place of Hitler (hoping secretly that Hitler would stand up from his grave to protest against me being here), the Second World War, The Berlin Wall and every other historical sight that I made a point of seeing … This is why I left South Africa, and I was secretly satisfied by this young mans outburst

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