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"Ich werde ein Berliner"

Diesen Titel trägt ein Blog eines US-Amerikaners, der seinen Landsleuten in umfangreichen Beiträgen das deutsche Wesen näherbringen möchte:

When in Germany, you will witness many situations where German people are inconsistent with what they said earlier. While they keep preaching on and on about using bikes rather than automobiles (unless it rains), protesting against any war that wasn't started by their own government, or the necessity of eating healthy food while sourcing their veggies from Aldidl or stuffing Döner into their faces while watching the latest, illegally downloaded Coen Brothers movie, they are, at any time, fully aware that they might come across as being stuck-up, uncool, and bullying too much.

To work against this image, German people use a tactical approach that, like Irony, also bears the sign of geniality as it allows them to do anything they dream up without the danger of appearing two-faced as they probably preached the exact opposite, like, the day before: Callous self-contradiction.

Full post as published by jurabilis - German bLAWg from Berlin. on March 16, 2009 (boomark / email).