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If you want to experience Germany, why would you go to Oktoberfest? It’s crowded, disgusting, overhyped, and mostly visited by Italians and Australians anyway...

I know it’s already been commented on but I feel like we can’t highlight the irony enough: this is coming from a website where half the content is pushing people to buy stuff they don’t need, from suppliers who are ruining the earth, killing well paid jobs and replacing them with… Read More

Everything Is Illuminated. The book has two narrators, and while one is charming and clever, the other exposes the worst of Jonathan Safran Foer's tendency to be verbose and impenetrable. The movie got rid of the grating narrator, and stuck with only the one that worked well. Add… Read More

One of the weirdest I've come across living in Germany is super specific to a neighborhood called Marxloh, in the city of Duisburg. Even though statistics don't support this, it has a reputation as being the "most dangerous neighborhood in Germany." One of the reasons for this, locals… Read More

I'm sick of the sitcom dork/geek, "unattractive" by TV standards (i.e., they wear glasses and have brown hair), name drop a few "geeky" things that are mainstream enough for all audiences to understand, is the butt of everyone's jokes, is terrible with the sex they're attracted to,… Read More

Working in an international newsroom in Germany, a male colleague from the UK (who has only studied there) tried to explain the differences between US and German education to me. I went to both German and US high schools, and have a university degree from each country. Smh.