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interviewed by a German radio station via his cell phone. And we will crowd into a Turkish-run bar to watch the European soccer playoffsobsessed with the outcome like nearly everyone else in Germany. Cem is a man in motiona politician with a mission. But this isn’t the life he would have predicted in his past. Born in 1965 in the small southern German town of Bad Urach to a Turkish factory workerCem’s birth certi? cate stated “Na- tionality: Turkish”—at that timein Germanyoutsiders could even be born inside the country. 1 “Crazy things happened to my parents’ generation when they ? rst arrived here” Cem explains. “Here they were in a strange placestill largely unfamiliar with the language and customs. In the very beginningsome couldn’t even buy a loaf of bread.” “Because of discrimination?” I ask. “No” Cem says“although there was plenty of that. It was be- cause they had learned just enough German to know the phrase ‘guten Morgen’ for ‘good morning.’ But they didn’t yet know that Germans often shorten the greeting to simply ‘Morgen.’ But the word ‘Morgen’ also means tomorrowso when some Turks en- tered the bakery and the clerk said ‘ louboutin sale shoesyilai: nike high heels louis vuitton outlet http://www.public4you.fora.pl/problem,3/he-said-a-couple-of-days-laterat-wallenberg,48585.html#85267 |
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