Aug. 29th, 2007

1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag whoever wants to do it.

1. I dislike people touching my thighs. I think one reason is that I am extremely ticklish. The other is that I grew up with a mother who'd immediately hit anybody who put a hand on her thigh, as she has the same problem with being extremely ticklish, so I learnt that hand on thigh is bad.

2. I talk to myself. In various languages. German and English, and, whenever I feel I really should do something about me forgetting everything I've ever learnt, in French.

3. I'm always fishing for compliments. This is also a fair warning for anybody going to meet me. I'm an egocentric person from an egocentric family, and being the third kid of four I need constant encouragement. Very bad trait, I really try to work on it. (I also get really embarassed if people do compliment me on something, so this is a kind of a lose-lose-situation for me.)

4. I actually don't know a lot of things, but I am very quick to take up new facts and I am extremely good at pretending. Therefore, you could talk to me for an hour (provided I give you the chance) about something I don't know a thing about - and you might never know.

5. I sleep in a large bed and tend to move my pillow so that I can pretend it's another person.

6. Even as a very small child, I had the ability to appear to listen intently without ever actually taking in a word. Mum tells me that she would talk to me and then find that even though I had looked at her, smiled and nodded at all the right places, was genuinely unable to recount anything she had said.

7. The nails of my smallest toes are really ugly. For some reason, they don't really grow like they should.

I tag: [livejournal.com profile] jonthedull, [livejournal.com profile] annie_from_aust, [livejournal.com profile] martianmooncrab, [livejournal.com profile] quietselkie, [livejournal.com profile] dora_long (That's what you get for being on my flist... Sorry), [livejournal.com profile] mr_witch and [livejournal.com profile] dearlady. But this doesn't mean anyone of them has to do it. I hate tagging people.
Even though the subtitles aren't all that good, I'm linking this video anyway because I've wanted to share it for a while now.



But that wasn't what I wanted to say.
On the 19th, eight Indians were attacked by a large crowd of Germans, 50, if the reports are to be believed. They tried to get shelter in the pizza place one of them owns, but the mob broke through the door. Racist paroles were reportedly shouted, and a large crowd looked on during what resulted in four injured Indians and two injured Germans. (Main facts and some links on Wikipedia here)

thoughts on Mügeln and other attacks )

Are we better now? Did we learn anything? Was Mügeln the same as Rostock, just on a smaller scale?

Am I guilty of playing down the incident because I claim it was not as racist as the media made it appear?

What would be the best thing to do? Is there even a foolproof way of dealing with this?

I wish I knew.

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