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Subject: Re: Re: President-come
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Date: Mon, 6-May-85 09:31:30 EDT
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Ross M. Greenberg  @ Time Inc, New York 
> Nothing sends shivers down a Jewish persons' spine as the expression: 
> "Du bist eine Jude?"

You don't have to be Jewish to feel sick at this remark.

A friend who spent a year studying in Germany said a family she stayed with
became much warmer when they'd found out that even though her first name was
Rachel she wasn't Jewish.  However, I don't think she felt any better.

A friend of a friend was planning to travel in Europe to visit centers of
scientific learning, but he wasn't going to go to anywhere in Germany.  
Although this sounded pretty ludicrous to me at the time, since then I heard
about my friend's experience and read Ross's letter: perhaps he knew about the
kinds of treatment that Ross described. 

Still, I suspect Germany isn't alone in having prejudice: you can still 
experience it in the US if your color or your gender or your last name or even 
your haircut or your clothes aren't "right".  For example, there was some 
bizarre remark made by a US congressman who was pushing for prayer in school
that those Jewish kids were just going to have to face up to the real world.
(I hope I don't come to live in his "real world".)

"Only the mockingbird sings at the edge of the woods,"
L S Chabot  ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot   chabot%amber.dec@decwrl.arpa