#germany

Oh, spring? More like "sneeze season" for me! It's like Mother Nature decided to play a cruel joke by unleashing her floral army just to see how many tissues I can go through in a day. Honestly, I'm starting to suspect that trees are secretly plotting against me. Every time I step outside, it's like walking into a battlefield of pollen. My nose has declared war on the entire plant kingdom, and let me tell you, it's not winning. So, while everyone else is frolicking in fields of flowers, I'm over here stockpiling antihistamines like a doomsday prepper. Springtime bliss? More like springtime sniffles. And since Germany decides to be as ambivalent as possible in April it's like a mixture of gentle warmth and deadly storms out here. Eh, I guess it's nice though? At least I am having a blast with random ladybugs and cherry blossoms landing in my hair like I am constantly experiencing a magical girl transformation.

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The Dutch government announced the creation of a special tribunal for Ukraine.
Political Declaration of the Ministerial Conference on Restoring Justice for Ukraine
Political Declaration of the Ministerial Conference on Restoring Justice for Ukraine, by representatives of the Governments of Albania, Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, the Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States.
https://www.government.nl/documents/diplomatic-statements/2024/04/02/political-declaration-of-the-ministerial-restoring-justice-for-ukraine-conference

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There is the "Erinnerungskultur", meaning culture of remembrance, present in Germany, that plays a big role in all of this.

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It's not necessarily about hating WW II, it's much more about awareness and accountability. About listening to survivors and commemorating the ones who didn't, about the roots and mindset which were grounds to this evil.
"Never forget" and "Never again" are two core ideas of this mentality.

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There is a historical factor to this approach, of course, that is crucial and giving grounds for everything else. But it doesn't have to be the main factor in every aspect. It's not so much about "those Na.zis", it's more about "the monster inside all of us", and what released to the world in this capacity.

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Media on this topic is complicated and layered for most Germans.

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About games specifically, there is the interesting history of the Wolfenstein series and its censorship of NS symbols, which I recommend looking into it if you are further interested in the complicated Do's and Dont's and confusion Germans and their law have among themselves.

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For media in general, the opinion varies with the handling. For example, most Hollywood adaptions handle it with a certain lack of care or even kinds of satire which aren't very appreciated, though movies like "Schindler's list" are regarded as very important and highly appreciated, and there are some ways even Germans themselves make fun of regarding things (e.g. the german movie "Er ist wieder da").

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An interesting example in how this can even shift for the very same media is Rammstein's "Deutschland". The teaser received a lot of very harsh criticism and raged Germans of all ages with the depiction of a concentration camp, the depiction of it in the final music video on the contrary was then received very positively, and a lot of people accepted the teaser in hindsight as necessary bait.
Though still there are conflicted feelings about the aesthetical depiction of the SS in the music video.
As I said: It is layered.

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As a general conclusion is to say, the more care, research and respect to the vic.tims are provided with any piece of media about the NS time, the more appreciative will the german public and Germans be of it. This can obviously vary in each case and for individuals, and with the obvious sensitivity regarding that topic, it can vary really drastically. Though there can be humor, there can be critic, there can be anything, as long as it doesn't diminish the events and/or gets facts wrong.

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Also, on a side note, Germans are absolutely not fond of getting thrown into the "Na.zi pool" because of their nationality and history. I always found this a bit petty tbh, even as a German myself, but with more knowledge about the world and how it handles history... I found this pettiness a bit deserved at times. There are also layers to this, but in general, the way the society tried and still tries to handle its burden, please respect that as well.

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Ich wollte mich in letzter Zeit hinsichtlich der politischen Shítshow in good old Germany distanzieren, da mein mentaler Zustand so gar nicht empfänglich für diese Wannseekonferenz-eske Agglomeration an Dummheit und Ménschenh´áss gewesen ist und offenkundig tue ich mich immer noch sehr schwer damit, diese Information zu verdauen. Allen voran diese resignierend belächelnde und distanzierte Attitüde von manchen Menschen aus meinem näheren Umfeld ist so enervierend und ekelerregend.

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Ich persönlich kann mich auch sehr wenig mit möglichen Anflügen von Auswanderungsfantasien arrangieren, da ich sehr stark bezweifle, dass das politische Klima andernorts weniger kompliziert anmutet.

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Um ehrlich zu sein wüsste ich überhaupt nicht, wie ich damit umgehen sollte. Und so langsam bin ich es auch leid, über Kommentare zu stolpern, die eine Mehrheitswahl mit Demokratie zu relativieren versuchen, wenn wir alle historisch genug bewandert sind, um genau die gleichen Muster 100 Jahre zuvor zu verorten. Beängstigend ist auch diese Prämisse des "Ethnopluralismus" (ein Begriff, der meines Erachtens viel zu verharmlosend anmutet), jede Person mit einem entsprechenden Migrationshintergrund im entsprechenden "Herkunftsland" verorten zu sollen. Es ist mehr als befremdlich und absurd, dass dieser "Masterplan" überhaupt Ausdruck gefunden hat und doch ist es keineswegs überraschend, in welche Richtung sich das zunehmend entwickelt.

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Puh, ich glaube, ich würde eine Identitätskrise erleiden, die mich als Mensch mit Migrationshintergrund ohnehin schon seit Ewigkeiten begleitet, da man ständig zwischen zwei Stühlen steht und sich ohnehin darum bemüht, ein Zugehörigkeitsgefühl zu etablieren, das weder hier noch andernorts Ausdruck findet. Ich wäre ziemlich ratlos und wüsste wirklich nicht, wie ich handeln könnte.

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I didn't have favorite classmates in school. Either I don't remember anymore or I don't want to remember. Past is past. I don't think about it because I closed the door to my past. 💚 But I have to say that I had a few best friends in those years.
My best friend in my first univeristy was Paweł (Paul) but our friendship ended for many private and also unknown reasons for me so I don't want to talk about it. He had a lot of advantages because he was good, polite, kind, protective and person who you can trust thanks to I wish him all the best in his life. 💚
My favorite workmates were Marek (Mark), Dominika (Dominica), Eliza (Elisa) and Sarah.
Sarah was teenage Dutch girl. I worked abroad e.g.in the Netherlands and in Germany in the years from 2019 to June 2022. In the Netherlands teenagers go to work and this is le*gal and common behave.

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Viele sind nicht völlig falsch in der Annahme, dass man vorzugsweise eine Romantisierung akademischer Belange mit Dark Academia assoziiert, jedoch verbirgt sich hinter dem Begriff vielmehr ein rebellisches Aufbegehren gegen besagte akademische Strukturen, die meist veraltet sind und wenig Raum zur Selbstentfaltung ermöglichen, frei nach den sehr beliebten Analogien "Kill Your Darlings" oder "Dead Poets Society".

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Studieren, zumindest als eine Person außerhalb einer wohlhabenden Einkommensverteilung in good old Germany, ist so ziemlich das Unromantischste und Undankbarste, das man sich vorstellen kann. Der Workload ist (meistens, je nach Studium) ziemlich hoch, man muss (zwangsweise) ein bis zwei Nebenjobs verrichten, um sich halbwegs zu finanzieren, BAföG-Anträge sind enervierend und komplex, man muss zum Teil drei bis vier Stunden in langatmigen Vorlesungen verbringen, sich mit der Regelstudienzeit herumstressen, eventuell pendeln, seine Freizeit (die meist inexistent ist, die Boomer lügen, lol) so einteilen, dass man seine Hausarbeiten, Referate und wöchentlichen Abgaben irgendwie mit den Klausurleistungen und Pflichtpraktika unter einen Hut bringen und zwischendurch aufatmen kann und dieser schwindend geringe Teil, den man dabei romantisiert, hat man vielleicht zu 5 % erfüllt, wenn man seine fancy avantgarde Uni-Bib in der Mittagspause zwischen zwei riesigen Blockkursen besucht und den halben Tag lang büffelt. Ansonsten ist ein Studium, obwohl es sehr interessant, abwechslungsreich und vielversprechend sein kann, oft eine ziemliche Belastung, die in unserer Gesellschaft immer so unangenehm instrumentalisiert wird. Allen voran bei geisteswissenschaftlichen Studiengängen, die als "weniger nützlich" in die Kapitalismus-Tretmühle implementiert werden.

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Dark Academia als Phänomen hilft mir jedoch, kurzweilig darüber hinwegzusehen und dagegen aufzubegehren. Der Kleidungsstil ist schön, die Ästhetik der Wissbegier und Poetik vielsagend und ansonsten ist das Farbbild mit den neutralen Braun- und Beigetönen erdend und beschwichtigend. Damit möchte ich das Studieren gar nicht verteufeln (ich liebe meinen exotischen Miniatur-Studiengang), jedoch hervorheben, dass vor allem Unbeteiligte sich da meist mit einem herablassenden Machtwort erheben, ohne überhaupt halbwegs über einen Studienalltag informiert zu sein. Ein Ausbildungsberuf ist beispielsweise auch mit entsprechenden Schwierigkeiten verbunden, aber irgendwie erhalte ich oft den Eindruck, Student:innen würde man Prokrastination und Müßiggang unweigerlich auf die Nase binden, weil eine akademische Laufbahn häufig missverstanden und als besonders "leicht" und "zugänglich" euphemisiert oder konträr als etwas völlig Eindimensionales geframed wird.

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Since 2017 I had my first ask🍃 that was deleted because someone was jealous this year👌a year ago I used it to talk to the person from my old church 🍃the one with the tie also looks similar ✨ the one from that church I saw in person apart from everyone The days she spoke to me on ask as if it were the social network WhatsApp 💚 I also remember because at the beginning of meeting her anywhere she begged me to look for me on any social network, where I was also she followed me, later she wanted to have children, I'm referring to the year 2017, then I continued in that church until 2019 ✨everything I say is true I swear 😌 after I left he also begged me I like that ask looks like the Instagram of so many beautiful European women there are and they are in the newspaper 😚 they upload videos or poses 👌 I have already shown days or weeks ago ✨ on average there are 👼🍑 hundreds, in my first ask I had thousands of followers or coins each publication had coins there were publications in highlights that had 80,000 and it was also always top but someone is bothered or hurt jealousy that I show to my European Instagram followers and other things ✨but they are from Latin America who are jealous or 🇺🇸 since I hardly show them or I pay attention when they talk to me but I do love some of them it doesn't let me show some posts if only There were 4 posts from followers🍃 of the Dozens that I showed in highlights ask me like it✨ I always see that there are many from Turkey, Germany or 🇺🇸

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A little story time of one occassion that I have in mind: 🎃

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I remember attending one Halloween specifically when I was younger. I was dressed as a vampire and accompanied a former neighborhood friend of mine through our village. Days before it was actually Halloween we prepared stuff to prank people who would not open their door for us and were kind of visible through the windows from outside. It was nothing too crazy since we thought that toilet paper, eggs and ketchup were far over the boundary of just being silly.

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I remember one family not opening up the door, even though they were clearly dining inside (from a retrospective point of view I completely understand how annoying kids on Halloween can be but back then I was one myself and - well - I wanted a treat).

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Since they did not open up to welcome us we just left a creepy drawing at their front door, stating that the spirit of Halloween would come to get them soon. The dude later found that note and kind of angrily gestured at us at his window but we just laughed and ran away. Ah, great times.

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We were still incredibly chill and friendly. One older lady gave us an apple and complimented our costumes. Even though that was not what we went after for our Halloween treats, we still thanked her and bid our goodbyes.

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Me and my friend had gathered a lot of candy this night and I was mainly happy about the little party treats that you can buy from the 'Celebrations' brand as a box. Is that still a thing? I think the corporation was related to Mars and invented in the late 90's.

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Generally speaking, I mainly appreciated small chocolate bars, filled with caramel or taffy. We have 'unpopular' candy here in Germany as well which - for some reason - my parents always keep for Halloween, even though I told them several times that kids (and mostly adults as well) hate them. 🎃

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