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surannée

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  1. Yes, I'm definitely in the #BackToWarner team. I read somewhere - maybe here, I don't remember - she left due to clashes with that hideous Lyor Cohen person who also created problems with Metallica - it seems hip hop is the only thing he cares about. Anyway he's out of Warner now, so there's a possibility. 

  2. On 6/22/2018 at 1:16 AM, Katypatra said:

    Omg she just posted a hashtag #babushka which means grandma in Russian 😂 She’s too funny. Love her corny sense of humor. ♥️🌹✨

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    Somehow I think it won't take very long until she becomes a real Babushka, probably by way of Rocco. 

  3. 22 minutes ago, Rock said:


    And yes, we understand you perfectly. It's just a Portuguese thing to be open to other languages (even if in this case it's the same one) and cultures.

    (Not trying to hijack this thread,ok?) Another reason you have it easier is the exposure to Brazilian music and telenovelas. Like, for example, you have Mc Kevinho and Ludmila topping iTunes there right now, while the Brazilians' knowledge of contemporary Portuguese music is near zero, if not absolute zero. It hasn't always been that way, I remember when I was a kid - I'm in my fifties - I listened to Portuguese music on the radio. And I remember quite clearly I could understand Portuguese way better when I was a kid, perhaps because there was much more contact between our cultures then. I guess Brazilians started to become kind of xenophobic around the late seventies. However, I think Portugal remains a huge influence in Brazil when it comes to literature and especially cuisine. Cheers! :) 

  4. 1 minute ago, Rock said:

    Despite speaking the same language, Portugal and Brazil have some words with different meanings. Celular, for example; out there is a mobile phone, while here the word is just related to cells (science). Bala is candy there, while here is a projectile. And the list goes on and on.
    
    :wink:

    Bala is a projectile here too. But yeah, there are many many differences between Portuguese and Brazilian. I hear you understand us perfectly, but it doesn't seem to happen the other way around. As for me, I understand Spanish much better than Portuguese. Go figure!

  5. 9 hours ago, Rock said:

    (in Portuguese, macedonia means fruit salad lol).

    Huh? 😳 I'm a native Portuguese speaker (although I prefer to say I speak Brazilian), but it's the first time I'm hearing this. As far as I'm concerned, Macedonia has always meant... Macedonia, a region in Greece.

    Anyway, I hope everyone finds a peaceful solution for that situation. 

  6. It happens everywhere in Germany. The problem is that those anti refugee demonstrations organized by the AFD take place in Dresden and they usually get a lot of attention. Unfortunately the city of Dresden has some politicians that lack some balls and don't try to stop this. Okay, it is in the constituation of Germany that people have the right to congregate. So it's really difficult from a legal point of view to refuse a permission for a demonstration. And in all fairness there are always counter demonstrations. But other cities are more clever. When there were similar demonstrations in Berlin and Cologne officials turned off the lights on major sights, like Brandenburg Gate and Cologne Cathedral because they didn't want them to obuse the images of those national monuments.

    The information Nazism never really stopped there is kind of false. Keep in mind that Dresden was part of the former GDR and they were actively fighting everything that was nazi and fascism. It was state policy. This doesn't mean that those ideas were not in some peoples heads. You can find them everywhere. But the truth is that Western Germany did way less after the war to punish former Nazis that were part of the army, the SS, the justice system, doctors. Hardly anyone was put in prison. Instead they were welcome back, even in the new government.

    I would like to argue that the reason why East Germans tend to appear more xenophobic is socio political. Contrary to Western Germany which had continous immigration from people all over the world for various reason, East Germany only had people from Cuba, Chile, Vietnam, Mozambique which were bascially there for political reasons and for work. The intergration of these people never happened. They lived in their own appartment buildings and hardly any contact to the citizens existed. Of course you had international students at universities. But let's face it, these are members of the intelligencia, which is far more open minded.

    I would like to add that Dresdeners may have inferiority issues as well. That goes back before the fall of The Wall. The area was called "Valley of the clueless" because of its location in a valley they could only see East German television. Keep in mind there was only terrestrial. Cable or satellite did not exist. They had no idea about the realities in West Germany and did truly believe it was all shiny and gold in the West. It made perfect sense for West German politicians of the CDU to go there first. They hijacked the civil rights movement that originally wanted to change the country for the better. And all of a sudden they were calling for re-unification and everything people were demonstating for was put to rest. It all started in Dresden.

    Thanks. However, can we agree that, despite Neo-Nazi gatherings have been happening all over the country, the whole thing started basically in the former DDR and then gradually spread throughout the country, no? After all, there has been a considerable migration - people move and they carry their beliefs along.

    When I say Nazism never stopped, I mean it's a feeling, a belief, that never ceased to exist, despite everything. DDR was occupied by the former USSR, then oppressed and isolated, but such isolation actually provided the perfect environment. The thing was silently passed on, in a familial fashion, to just only one, maybe two generations. After the tumbling of the Wall, people again felt free to show their true colors, to practice what they've been taught by their parents and grandparents.

    You see, bullying a tourist for having black hair is not a socio-political issue at all. It's purely racism.

    I went to 'West Germany' a few times in the mid-to-late eighties, I spent a good deal of time there. I know that things happened, particularly it seems in Bavaria - which is close to Saxony. Friends would tell me about that. But it was very, very rare. Not the way it's happening now.

  7. I've just talked to a friend of mine who's Turkish and lives in Izmir, but flies regularly to Istanbul for business. She had landed 90 minutes before the terrorist attack. My poor friend, she's absolutely terrified.

    More and more I think that only a MAJOR threat from outer space could bring some peace and unity to the human race.

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