eskimo, I just saw your tagline: “Being vague is almost as much fun as that other thing.”
I liked it. Good choice! Sorta. 
^Thanks, that helps a lot. If I was serious about the move, I’d likely study German pretty hard for about a year first. I love everything I hear about the place and it fits with where I’d like to go. My Dad used to do most of his banking in Zurich and always told me it felt like going home when he was there. I think the largest obstacle will be getting a job as a US citizen and I’m not sure how that will go. I’ve heard it’s very competitive and that the quota system gets in the way. I’m fine with the small city feel and the traveling would be a HUGE plus for me.
^ Very easy to learn german. Many of the words are incredibly similar, only thing I ever struggled with was the conjugation of verbs. Some of those words that are like 60 characters long look scary but they break down very literally and make sense.
Yeah I mean, beer in English is “bier”, garden is “garten”.
Actually, that’s about all I know.
Could always go to Geneve or Lausanne if you prefer French. The culture there is a little more chill (but not as relaxed as France). I’ve worked with Germans in Germany and here and I do find them a little difficult at times. Not relaxed folks.
^ +1m
das protocol, excessive exclamation marks and the neverending pursuit of everything being precisely right according to made up rules that are strictly enforced at the expense of the bigger picture.
I would recommend non Germans against working in the investment industry in Germany.
prost, danke
I take it you’re an Emmitt Smith fan then… Racist is such an archaic, lazy term. Governments need to purge any reference to more than one race, the human race, from their books. It’s getting ridiculous. It’s been shown we are the same species. Get used to it and get over it.
^yea the institutionalization of race in public school really pisses me off. My daughter had no idea what a black person was until she learned it in school. She has black cousins and a black aunt. Maybe it’s unrealistic but it was nice when she thought there are just people, not black people and white people.
I see your point, but sometimes it’s just odd not to use certain adjectives to describe someone. My daughter has one black kid in her class, a girl. My daughter starts telling me a story and uses this girl’s name and I don’t recognize it so I ask who she’s talking about. It was definitely cute and all, but after 30 seconds of describing her classmate I finally said, “oh, the black girl?” I mean, come on. This riddle could have been solved in three words and instead I now know where this girl sits in class, her favorite color, who she has a crush on…
What really grinds my gears are news anchors these days. Watch the local news and they’ll describe everything about the guy that robbed the 7-11 down the street except their skin color. “The suspect was 5’11” and weighs approximately 175 lbs, and he’s not wearing a hat. Repeat, suspect is hatless." Great, you’ve just described the average human male. How about narrowing it down to skin tone and ethnicity? That might help.
The words don’t matter as much as what she will soon learn about what it means to be black vs white, as if that story has anything to do with the people she will meet in life. It only has a certain meaning because it is taught.
Kinda like “Top 2 MBA r hacksaw” is taught? Or…pretty much anything else that we ever learn?
Might help who? The cops on whether to bring guns or not ahaha I’m joking of course.
A significant percentage of my friends are minorities, so I always thought I understood their perspective pretty well. But I recently read the book why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together and realized there was a lot more I didn’t notice. So I’m probably overly sensitive now but I dislike the school situation as well
Hey now - Rob Ford was the most interesting thing to happen to Canadian politics since the founders ran away from Britain and thought, “hey, this cold AF place with maple syrup and trees seems like a good place to set up shop.” Or something like that.
Race is always one of the first things mentioned in a story in nyc i feel like. They usually just give an absurd profile of the criminal is black like a height range of 5’2" to 6’5" Has anyone ever heard one of those and been like oh wow that person they described sounds just like Bill in HR? Like come on, i get the picture someone might notice but a description? Unless of course it is something really obscure like a bank robber in a wheelchair (actually happened like last summer which i found hilarious)
I’m white as the driven snow. You know, light eyes, average penis, so I really don’t give a shit. But I do think a change of vocabulary would go a long way. Why not, “the thief was 5’ 8” and appeared to be of African descent?" Or “the trigger happy Texas cop is 6’4”, full of muscle, and of European descent." Or, “The porn star is of European and Asian descent.” Nice combo by the way. Highly recommended. Just gets away from the divisive language of race, by definition.