Opinion

I’ve never quite understood the human reaction to crises. I often wonder what makes one tragedy more appalling to people than another.

In Berlin they are especially visible on the U-Bahn. They wait for the subway doors to close before they address the car with a rehearsed speech: “Excuse the interruption, I am one of Berlin's annoying homeless people...”.

In 2005, Germany officially became an immigration country.

If you put the German word Multikulti into Google Images, the many different representations, interpretations, and applications of the word appear in a humorous montage only the inter-webs could produce.