Of the last #30years in #germany - post #berlinwall
30 years after the Wall It's been a lifetime since the Wall's been overcome, destroyed, torn down... and still, some things haven't changed... many foreign people living in Germany still don't think they belong: maybe because they never will... why is that? Why is the German sense of identity so precious, and at the same time, so sensitive, so difficult to comprehend and to acquire?... it's always about the identity, about the search for answers to the question "who am I, who are we?": that's what at the core of every unsolvable matter, that struggle to belong to place and/or group that makes one feel proud: in the end, a matter of ego can trigger serious crises. The fall of the Berlin Wall was not really the start of a reunification - I believe it could be better described as an annexation of East Germany. And the worries West Germans were having about the migration flows from the East are the same that torture many today, in the midd