Opinion
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German identity: with wings, roots and sweaty hands
“Punctual. Exact. Productive. Closed off. Careful. Inflexible. Humorless.” And some “Goethe” and “Einstein” thrown in for good measure.
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Cecil the lion and the refugee crisis: The power of images in the information age
I’ve never quite understood the human reaction to crises. I often wonder what makes one tragedy more appalling to people than another.
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Berlin through the eyes of the homeless
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...”.
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Why Holocaust remembrance is good for immigrants
In 2005, Germany officially became an immigration country.
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The many meanings of multiculturalism
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.