Yes but France doesn’t make immigrants learn French, and if you have ever been to Paris (or Marseille or Nantes for that matter) you know that the Algeroise Quartiers are literally physically removed from the main areas of the cities...

I am German, and I’m a woman, and I live in the region...how much more qualified can I be to speak as a German woman? I think maybe you did not read my posts clearly. No one is diminishing what happened to the victims, quite the opposite.

Right. And the Anglophone media is continuing to call the terrorists holed up in an Oregon Cracker Barrel “protestors.” Naturally in one of Deutschland’s major cities there were hundreds of thousands of people on the streets, from all over the world. But the German media with reporters and bureaus in Köln is putting…

This is why I mentioned two sources who are both known for thorough reporting (having actual bureaus and people covering from Köln) and less likelihood to exaggerate or inflame. I’m sorry to say it but our Tagesschau, like your NPR, has been a lot heavy on the twee and less proficient at hard news as time has marched…

That’s a good question and I’ll try to answer. In Germany, unlike, say, in Los Angeles, Miami, Dallas, New York City, and countless other U.S. cities, or even in other EU countries which are officially bilingual, such as Belgium, the only official language is German. My feeling is that this has had an overwhelmingly…

Hi, normal lurker, first time commenter, and German.