Split to the core
Something that you also realize when reading other peoples' blogs (First thing: → redirect): How much Germans among themselves are split and despise each other.
When you move into a different area of the country, even if you are German too, you always remain where you came from. Even if you haven't been there in a long time or this area doesn't interest you or you'd been a child and couldn't fight back against the ideas of your parents.
It's always that you get it visualized before your own eyes that you're a foreigner.
Well, once could claim this maybe is past because it is more written by people which are already in their thirties and fourties, you don't often meet bloggers which are twenty years old and write about something meaningful or the sad stories of their lives. The time where this had been a craze had been already almost ten years ago. And it didn't center around how feeling foreign because of local hostility because you were an outsider from far away hurt.
Maybe these circumstances have also already become flatter, less significant.
But people moving to the South which is very conservative and formed by Christian belief and more sticks to its traditions than compatively the North still seem to make that experience.
Actually, it might be that you can already feel it when making a visit to relatives which happen to live there.
Snobbishness seems more common there as those areas of Germany didn't ever suffer from great demolition caused by greedy coorporations which happened to shift their factories abroad for cheaper wages. They never experienced what is like to make efforts and still be kicked in the ass, the fairy tale of "the unemployed are fully responsible themselves for having no job" still largly is alive there.
And that seems like the way that settled down there in peoples' heads.
Combined with the influence the church still has there, it seems to work as a mother soil for gazing at people which behave different than them. This may include people which have moved there as well as people within their own communities. A little famous the harder struggles of gays to make their families get along with it when they're from the South of Germany.
If you make your way to the North you won't necessarily meet this attitude.
A great trench that still remains still is the issue of East and West - and that is because the agenda and the attitude, inclusing the historical chronicles, have been written by those who felt themselves as the winner of that part of the Cold War.
Being of Eastern origin - to people born in that time of one German state it won't matter anymore as the way people raise their kids and the television forms their minds now is the same.
But to those people had been born before that time, if they didn't have the voluntary will to forget their life in the former East, they better kept silent about their descent if they moved to the West.
You can also say, you can still feel it that Germany once was formed out of several smaller states.
When you move into a different area of the country, even if you are German too, you always remain where you came from. Even if you haven't been there in a long time or this area doesn't interest you or you'd been a child and couldn't fight back against the ideas of your parents.
It's always that you get it visualized before your own eyes that you're a foreigner.
Well, once could claim this maybe is past because it is more written by people which are already in their thirties and fourties, you don't often meet bloggers which are twenty years old and write about something meaningful or the sad stories of their lives. The time where this had been a craze had been already almost ten years ago. And it didn't center around how feeling foreign because of local hostility because you were an outsider from far away hurt.
Maybe these circumstances have also already become flatter, less significant.
But people moving to the South which is very conservative and formed by Christian belief and more sticks to its traditions than compatively the North still seem to make that experience.
Actually, it might be that you can already feel it when making a visit to relatives which happen to live there.
Snobbishness seems more common there as those areas of Germany didn't ever suffer from great demolition caused by greedy coorporations which happened to shift their factories abroad for cheaper wages. They never experienced what is like to make efforts and still be kicked in the ass, the fairy tale of "the unemployed are fully responsible themselves for having no job" still largly is alive there.
And that seems like the way that settled down there in peoples' heads.
Combined with the influence the church still has there, it seems to work as a mother soil for gazing at people which behave different than them. This may include people which have moved there as well as people within their own communities. A little famous the harder struggles of gays to make their families get along with it when they're from the South of Germany.
If you make your way to the North you won't necessarily meet this attitude.
A great trench that still remains still is the issue of East and West - and that is because the agenda and the attitude, inclusing the historical chronicles, have been written by those who felt themselves as the winner of that part of the Cold War.
Being of Eastern origin - to people born in that time of one German state it won't matter anymore as the way people raise their kids and the television forms their minds now is the same.
But to those people had been born before that time, if they didn't have the voluntary will to forget their life in the former East, they better kept silent about their descent if they moved to the West.
You can also say, you can still feel it that Germany once was formed out of several smaller states.