What's Going On

Back in late 1989 or early 1990 I was walking across the Domplatz in Münster, when a man came up to me begging for money. Yet he did it with a sense of entitlement, like I owed him something, stating that he was from Eastern Germany and I had to support him financially just for being this. At the time I was very annoyed and realized - though I do not recall if I actually told him - that I have more in common with the Italian, Portuguese, even the Turkish people whom I grew up with than this man.

In the light of some recent events in Dresden I definitely wonder if this peculiar sense of entitlement deriving from some perceived birthright is still prevailing in some people.