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It always surprises me to see the sometimes overtly anti-US sentiment here in Berlin and this striking banner caught my eye hanging on the Volksbühne to promote an adaptation for stage of Eduard Limonov’s novel “Fuck off, America”. Coming from the UK where people actually aspire to the US it’s novel to see and hear people speak out against the US. Berlin as always has an underdogs view and seems to reject many US ideologies as simply the side effects of a bloated bully nation. Berlin proudly proclaims itself as ’sexy but poor’ (which I agree with), and is more likely to stick a finger up to, rather than hi-five our Amercian cousins.
Raisin bombers long gone.
April 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
It always surprises me to see the sometimes overtly anti-US sentiment here in Berlin and this striking banner caught my eye hanging on the Volksbühne to promote an adaptation for stage of Eduard Limonov’s novel “Fuck off, America”. Coming from the UK where people actually aspire to the US it’s novel to see and hear people speak out against the US. Berlin as always has an underdogs view and seems to reject many US ideologies as simply the side effects of a bloated bully nation. Berlin proudly proclaims itself as ’sexy but poor’ (which I agree with), and is more likely to stick a finger up to, rather than hi-five our Amercian cousins.
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1 Ken Snyder // May 2, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Most of the anti-American pronouncements are ridiculous and it is annoying how “safe” it is to make them; no one really puts on a critical thinking cap and challanges the nonsense that is being stated. I guess with someone like Bush running the country it is hard command a great deal of respect but it’ll be interesting to see if the tide sways any when the new president comes in.
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