anders deutsch

Abstimmung bei der Mädchenmannschaft

Nachtrag 30.01.11: Bis zum 31.01.11 kann noch abgestimmt werden.

This blog is bilingual English and German. But the English version is no direct translation of the German one. First I write my contributions in German. In many cases I quote from German newspapers and link to them as well. Then I write the English version. In that I try to describe the essence of my German post and make it understandable for those who do not follow German debates.

I appologise for some of the information to handle this blog being purely in German. At this stage I do not know how to change this.
To scroll back to earlier posts, you need to click "nächste Seite".
To go back to the more recent: "vorherige Seite".
If you want to comment, then you need to press the button "Veröffentlichen" to post.

Update 29.06.06: The English version of the blog has been seriously neglected. I appologise for this, but do not have any remedy at the moment.

The name of this blog 'anders deutsch' is best translated to 'being German differently'. It is the self definition I chose for myself. Not as a kid but only after people kept asking me what I am. And also then not immediately but after a phase of trying different terms.

Yes, I am 'German'. I have the German citizenship, I have lived most of my life in Germany. This is the country I know best.
No, I am not 'Indian'. I did have the Indian citizenship, I have travelled there, I have relatives and friends there. But the country is still foreign to me, I am a 'foreigner' there.
But somehow, some people would rather consider me 'Indian' than 'German'. So I have to accept that I cannot be purely 'German' and so I became 'German' differently. (Not only in ethnical terms, but that is another issue ...)

The 'German' psychologist Paul Mecheril has formulated the concept of 'Andere Deutsche' (best translated as 'Other Germans'), which captures this quite good and focusses on the process of othering.

See also yeahpope for an example ...