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sabina
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I am a radio and online journalist based in Cologne, Germany. Whether it's art or business, politics or pop, I offer an American's perspective on Germany.
May 2008 Archives
As if George W. Bush wasn't bad enough. For the past seven years, I have had to face a storm of questions from Germans as to why this man is president of the United States. As an American living in Germany, and a journalist on top of it, I am regularly being asked to explain not only the phenomenon of the US electoral system, but also the country's relation to religion, why so many people are so fat or why your average pupil couldn't find Europe on a map even if you offered him a free meal at McD's for it.
And now? This could top it all.
Pampering little girls? Mini manis and pedis? Kiddy spas? This will certainly open a new chapter in my "Please Understand Those Crazy Americans" book.
Granted, Germany did produce the likes of Heidi Klum and Claudia Schiffer. It's not as if beauty is not written with a capital B here, too (though there isn't the extreme obsession with youth as in the US). But kids are a no go.
I can't do this one on my own, though. So please, America: help me out and explain this craze to me and these Germans over here.
And now? This could top it all.
Pampering little girls? Mini manis and pedis? Kiddy spas? This will certainly open a new chapter in my "Please Understand Those Crazy Americans" book.
Granted, Germany did produce the likes of Heidi Klum and Claudia Schiffer. It's not as if beauty is not written with a capital B here, too (though there isn't the extreme obsession with youth as in the US). But kids are a no go.
I can't do this one on my own, though. So please, America: help me out and explain this craze to me and these Germans over here.
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