Ok so I’m really not trying to be one of these ignorant americans, that think all Americans are fat, lazy, fastfood-worshipping people…And this is sometimes really hard, especially after I spend 3 weeks in Wisconsin, this summer, where basically all my prejudices, I had about americans where fully fulfilled…
Anyways, I really don’t think that it’s ignorant to say, that americans can’t bake any good bread…It’s always white and fluffy and tastes like nothing…
European bread is everything, american bread isn’t…There are so many different kinds and especially the Bavarian bread is something I really missed when I was in the States. We actually have a bread-mascott that appears on that one German-TV-channel for kids…
I think that really made my point. Bread is a big part of german culture and it IS some amazing stuff!!!
Deep inside, I’ve always wanted to walk down the streets with little baguettes on my feet!!! hahaha
So let’s make this one a history lesson. The 9th november is a day of fate in german history. In 1918, this day was the day, the Weimar republic was proclaimed. 1923 on this day, Hitler failed at his first try to get the political power during the “Beer Hall Putsch”. 2 years later, Hitler formed the SS. In 1938 on this day 1938: In the Reichskristallnacht or “the night of broken glass”, synagogues and jewish property were burned and destroyed on a large scale. Finally in 1989, exactly 20 years ago. The Berlin Wall was torn down, which was equivalent with the end of communism in eastern Europe. Too bad I don’t remember this day, when my dad pushed me through the Brandenburg Gate in my buggy. But still I think I can make a quick résumé about what changed in the last 20 years in this country. Well I guess everybody that lived in the GDR 20 years ago, is free now, we have a united country, at least if we take a look at the landscape. But still there are many ignorant western Germans, and probably eastern as well, that won’t accept each other as equal, make fun of each other whenever they get the chance. Still politicians call the states from the former GDR as “new states”, they make a difference between “new” and “old” states. Still people in eastern Germany get paid LESS for exactly the same job. Still this WALL exists in so many german heads. I think this is just stupid and sad. We still have to give the proof, that Germany earned this unity. But this will probably take another 20 years. Maybe it would help to make today to a national holiday, but this wouldn’t make any sense with all the days in the backhead that I mentioned earlier. I really don’t want to celebrate this day together with Nazis in the streets, that would do the same thing on Hitlers birthday on the 20th of April. So not a national holiday. But still nobody is celebrating and I don’t know why…Germany is a weird country.
