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Hello, my Name is Gereon Kalkuhl

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And, um, I am often asked by people,

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who don't come from Germany, from Übersee,

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from the US, Brazil, where ever

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when they say "From where are you?" and I say, "I come from Germany"

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they then ask "Where in Germany?"

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and there I must always ask "Yeah, how well do you know Germany?".

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Many only know about Berlin or Munich or Frankfurt

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It's hard to estimate, how well they know Germany

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I think, a good method is, to say,

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what border you live closest to.

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Germany borders so many countries and when you would then say

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"I live closest to the Polish border or to the Dutch border,

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to the Austrian or French Border,

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I think, people can imagine way better, where you live

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especially things, when you live in a village, in the Province or so

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Would maybe be a method, to give it to them more visually,

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from where you come

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and I'll shortly clear up an association:

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In 1974, I was six years old and was on vacation in Romania with my parents

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And in fact really in the Carpathians in Poiana Brașov at Postăvarul

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There were only forests and bears and wolves - it was pretty exciting for a 6-year-old

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And I know that there was a cage in front of the hotel with two brown bears inside

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and we as kids always stole Honeypots from the breakfast buffet

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that was really with such a thick aluminium coating

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ehm

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in which there was honey, similar to Butter or Marmelade

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and we then threw it in the cage with the bears

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and the brown bears scratched it up with their claw and sucked the honey out

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and for my entire childhood, whenever I saw this, um, prepackaged honey

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I need to think about the brown bears.

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That just now was a fully irrelevant Association, but I just wanted to tell it.