VV(12): Mondaugen

[Dave Monroe]

Here, I think, we've got "permanent residents" (i.e.,
those who hold those so-called Green Cards) and
migrant workers.  Along with a plethora of national,
racial and ethnic slurs ("wetbacks" et al.).  And, of
course, we used to have slaves, but, institutionally,
at least, that's been abolished (structurally, well
...).  Very interesting.  Gotta go, will be back ...


--- KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:
> In einer eMail vom 20.03.01 09:41:51 (MEZ)
> Mitteleuropäische Zeit schreibt 
> davidmmonroe at yahoo.com:
> 
> >  and recall the "native workers" at Dora (albeit
> >  euphemized by Walter Dornberger in his memoir as
> >  "foreign labor") ...
> The career of a word: the Nazis called them
> "Fremdarbeiter" ("foreign 
> workers", ok., but "Fremder" also means "stranger",
> "alien"); after the war 
> workers from other countries (now volunteers,
> Italians, Turks, people from 
> Greece) in the "Wirtschaftswunderzeit" (Adenauer
> era) were called 
> "Gastarbeiter" ("Guest workers"), nowadays they are
> "auslaendische 
> Mitbuerger" (foreign fellow citizens) - but without
> any or only few civil 
> rights... it's now easier to become a German
> citizen, but the "ius sanguinis" 
> is still the main thing.
> 
> Kurt-Werner Pörtner
>  


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