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Unfortunately, since the nineties, Porsche's business philosophy makes them an oddball in Germany, not the norm, at least among major companies. Copying Anglo-Saxon mores in the most naive and superficial ways, including speaking a gibberish of mixed English/German words ('Neudeutsch') has become the norm among not just managers. (Just last week, I was at a presentation by a Bavarian software company, and even the ex-Yugo guy who brought them here ironised about the language of the presentation.)

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Unterschicht hat nichts vom AufschwungLower class has nothing from the upswing
Eine wachsende Unterschicht bleibt nach Ansicht des Jenaer Sozialwissenschaftlers Roland Merten vor allem im Osten vom derzeitigen wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung ausgenommen. «Vom Aufschwung profitieren nur die Begüterten und Qualifizierten, nicht aber die schlechter Qualifizierten und Empfänger von Arbeitslosengeld II», sagte der Sozialpädagoge von der Universität Jena. «Um das Ausmaß der Misere zu begreifen, muss man sich deutlich machen, dass das so genannte abgehängte Prekariat in den alten Ländern vier Prozent, in den neuen aber ein Viertel der Bevölkerung umfasst.»According to the view of social scientist Roland Merten from Jena, a growing lower class, above all in the East, is left out of the economic upswing. "Of the upswing, only the wealthy and the [highly] qualified profit, but not the lower-qualified and the receivers of Jobless Benefit II [the reduced successor to both long-term jobless and social benefits introduced by the infamous Harz IV reform package]", said the social educator of the University Jena. "To comprehend the scale of poverty, one must intimate that the so-called left-behind 'precariat' [neologism, from precarious, analogously to proletariat] is four percent in the old [Western] states, but one fourth of the population in the new [Eastern] ones."


*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue May 15th, 2007 at 02:56:22 AM EST

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