An Insidious Alienation
Summary:
To this day, I remember a conversation that I held with a former fellow student of mine in late 2011. We were talking about our backgrounds when I told him that I was born in Dresden in the former German Democratic Republic. He looked stunned and said: "You are from East Germany? But you are so clever!" I took his statement as the compliment it was, but subtly I still got a lump in my throat,
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Geographic context:
Location | Country | Latitude | Longitude |
Dresden | DE | 51.0536 | 13.7408 |
East Germany | DE | 52.3276 | 12.4594 |
Keywords:
backgrounds, compliment, conversation, Dresden, East Germany, fellow student, geosciences, German Democratic Republic, Insidious Alienation, lump, throat