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kwp schrieb:

> 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.


 this is, all in all, of course correct. nevertheless, we should tell the 
 non-european p-listers also that countries like greece, spain, portugal or  
 italy are, like germany, part of the european union. today this means that  
 people from those countries can, like you and me, choose in which of the  
 eu-countries they want to live. the legal status of, say, italians in germany  
 does not really differ from the one germans in italy dispose of.

 yet you are absolutely right about people of turkish origin, the largest group 
 of migrants living in germany today. shame on our red/green government! 

 on the situation of the turkish community in dtschlnd see especially the 
 semi-fictional writings of feridun zaimoglu, the fellow who put my childhood 
 city kiel on the map of german literature.

 "wir sind wüchsige aus gaarden, hier, wo man das olle gras halm für halm  
 wachsen hört, wo nix außer gebell steckt, hier in jeder toten gasse, hierhin 
 hat man uns wie 'n faden popel geschnickt, und ruhe fanden wir nicht von 
 anfängen an ... der rap sagt: sieh dich vor vorm untersten wie obersten 
 chargen, vor dem der garantiert im falschen pelz herumläuft, um dich auf lamm 
 zu polen. bist du'n lamm, fressen sie dich ..."

                         --- feridun zaimoglu: kanak sprak, pp. 39ff. ---


kfl