Wednesday, April 14th, 2004

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I love my minor subject. I really do.
The problem with the psychologists at the university of Hamburg is that they are too cooperative, too polite, too friendly and too motivated to be real.
Meaning most of them are not. There just cannot be a group of people so interested in everybody around them. If there were people like that, the world would be a better place.
Which it isn't. Meaning most of them are pretending.
That really makes me aggressive after a while - I have never seen a room full of so many false smiles. It seemed as though I had taken part in an actor's class instead. In a very basic course. Of very bad "actors".

Another thing - even though they were all 'exceedingly friendly and tolerant', they - of course - didn't want to help our two Russian students. They were not particularly unfriendly, they just stayed away from Anastasia and Natasha and tried to ignore them.

I mean, I know how annoying it can be to be in one group with people who can't speak German. Or English. At all. Yes, they can slow things down, and yes, they always come in pairs, and yes, they only talk amongst themselves, and yes, they sometimes do not even seem to be interested in taking part in the class -  but that does not mean everybody who wasn't born in Germany is like that - and I have never heard anyone complain about students from Britain or the US, even if they couldn't speak German and slowed everything down.

Occasions like these make me wonder how the rest of Europe treats Germans. How the Scots treat Germans... Most interesting terrorists on TV are from Germany, after all. Well, that did shift a little only recently, but on the whole... I wonder whether the Scots are likely to ask the same questions as a boy from my class was asked during his year at an American high school. ("Do you have hot water in German households?" - "Do you have cars in Germany?" - "What's it like, living in a totalitarian regime?" - "Will you be shot when you come back home?") Sigh.
I would not want to be treated like our Polish, Bulgarian or Russian students.

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