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Last year I reported from Fashon-Mekka Munich, by detecting shopaholic Arabs coming obviously from the rich Gulf-states. In the meantime it seems that the caravan moved on – to nearby Austria. Tom y absolute surprise I spotted them now in swanky Zell am See and Salzburg as well as at the Krimmler Waterfalls. On the way I noticed the expression

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Cliché fishing in the cinema

Stereotypes are often made within public discourse and are even more often intensified in it. Witnessed just yesterday in the cinema. The movie Salmon fishing in Jemen is a classical example for this argumentation. Even though the film is quite diverting and the plot definitely charming, the contents is full of clichés. What can be gathered out of it, seems

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The three religions are from the same factory!s

Sunday evening. My inner voice reels between the beautiful spring weather outside and the lecture given inside on a vastly discussed topic. The mere drive (by bicycle) would have been worth the effort. So far, I considered my current city as boring if not narrow-minded. Suddenly I discovered „Little Neukölln“ just some metres off the city centre. At the venue

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3.000 miles to the next cliché

Last Saturday it was story hour again. On whom or what? The American movie or better to say the American world view. What it is all about? It is about the film “Hidalgo – 3000 miles towards glory”. Well, it could have been a nice film. The story, the film takes place end of 19th century, offered at least the

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