I just finshed reading the short essay about racism from Pavel. Yes, there
is a kind of very sublime racism in your country. It was one of the mayor
points, which forced me to leave the Czech Republic and I really tried to
live there. Me as a german with very good czech skills, I studied czech
literature and linguistics and I am fluent, felt often very missunderstood
and not accepted. I really don´t want to generalize, because of my friends
there, but there were definitly problems and not only with gypsies. We like
foreigners felt really rare sometimes. Maybe that´s because of the low
imigration rate in the CR, that people are not used to get in closer
contact, but we tought that they are not interested to meet any other people
from which country ever. I am glad to be back in Germany, where I live the
opportunity to work and to share my free time with people of other
nationality. I prefer that to stay a little bit more openminded and this
should be a big thanks to all turkisch and spanish people in Germany, which
maked me feel like I actually do! And a kiss to my brother in law Mustafa,
he´s married to my sister since 1992 and so nice!
Janine
