Halli Hallo :) nice to have you back, for sure! And you are in Germany, to boot - me too! I "escaped" from Italy after 26 years.. and am so very glad about it. The situation IS irrisolvibile there, people are sinking into a moral and cultural morast, deeper and deeper, and few if any are aware of it. I used to love that country, many years ago, but nowadays I have only horror for it!
I'm at the exact opposite end of Germany, Garmisch, near the Austrian border. This is where I have been born, and now I have returned..and ask myself how I have managed to stay away for such a long time. Yes, it is true that there are things in the German mentality which aren't too pleasant..but they can be easily ignored for the bigger picture: as you say, to be considered a person, not an object created only for breeding or coupling reasons. And to live in a place where people consider something outside themselves and their little families: the common welfare, the fact that if you damage public property you damage yourself, if you damage nature, you damage your own possibility for survival. That is something most Italians just don't get.. they keep the insides of their houses and cars spotless clean, and throw their papers, cigarette butts and gums on the floor as soon as they are outside, just to name one example.. and they don't understand that if you want to live in a "società civile", you have to be CIVILE yourself first.. no
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You summarized the matter perfectly. I wrote tons of examples like these on the other account. I think it was, and it is, a way to understand what I do and don't do, and a way to understand why people complain while they fuel the reasons of their complaining ("no sense in ranting about the traffic if you always bypass the queues on the right", like you wrote
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I came to live in Italy when I was seven, leaving my homeland Southafrica where I was grown up in an Anglo-Saxon culture, and I experimented the same form of alienation you are feeling. For twenty two years I have felt an alien in an alien culture. But my birth country is changed so much in these years that I cannot think of going buck, and for all purposes, years ago, I discovered that I do not have roots any more. But I don’t think you should view being homeless as a frightening or a cause for stress For me this realisation was liberating. We are not tied to a country or culture, the world is open to us, and we can live/view/analyse it without the prejudices that come from patriotic loyalty. As for been forced to live in a country you dislike.. girl, you know English, German and Italian, if you have the will, you can live wherever you like!
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I wrote tons of examples like these on the other account. I think it was, and it is, a way to understand what I do and don't do, and a way to understand why people complain while they fuel the reasons of their complaining ("no sense in ranting about the traffic if you always bypass the queues on the right", like you wrote ( ... )
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For twenty two years I have felt an alien in an alien culture.
But my birth country is changed so much in these years that I cannot think of going buck, and for all purposes, years ago, I discovered that I do not have roots any more.
But I don’t think you should view being homeless as a frightening or a cause for stress
For me this realisation was liberating.
We are not tied to a country or culture, the world is open to us, and we can live/view/analyse it without the prejudices that come from patriotic loyalty.
As for been forced to live in a country you dislike.. girl, you know English, German and Italian, if you have the will, you can live wherever you like!
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