I was watching this last night on youtube...
and it reminded me of my own childhood, but quite differently. In Mauro Pawlowski's case the different ethnic or cultural groups were fighting each other, first they (probably the male youth) played football against each other and this was always followed up by a fight, whereas here - on the German side of the border and in the same village as the local population - we were living side by side mainly with people of Italian and Portuguese origin and at least for me, German and female, it was fantastic to have also Italian life in the neighbourhood, with its quite different take on issues, like food and drink or television programme. My Italian neighbours first introduced me, still being a child, to fruit pickled in rum for example. The consequence for me was that different cultures made and still make me curious.
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