This is an excellent article from Lonely Planet. It’s a RECOMMENDED READ, in my view. Check it out!
How to eat like a local – World food – Lonely Planet.
My wife and I are passionate independent travelers, and endorse the Lonely Planet view that food is a key part of the cultural experience of travel as well as a delight in itself. Here are links to two of our travel blog where food does receive plenty of attention:
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English: The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989. The photo shows a part of a public photo documentation wall at Former Check Point Charlie, Berlin. The photo documentation is permanently placed in the public. Türkçe: Berlin Duvarı, 1989 sonbaharı (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This is an excellent and insightful article from Spiegel. It’s HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, in my view. Check it out!
via German Uni Criticized For Guidelines On Working Class Students – SPIEGEL ONLINE.
For me, the article raises a double-edged challenge.
Firstly, German policy-makers need to address the class barriers in German society which seem to give priority to children of educated, successful and privileged, parents. The article focuses on somewhat clumsy attempts by universities to help students from working class, less well educated backgrounds, adjust to the social challenges of life at a German university.
Secondly, German politicians are frequently, somewhat arrogantly recommending that European colleagues follow Germany’s example as Best Practice. Surely, Germany would benefit from learning from other European countries that have been more successful with policies of social mobility?
Researchers have called this effect the Great Gatesby Curve.
As I reflected on the wide-ranging problems for the current generation of young people in Europe, with youth unemployment in worst cases close to 60%, all seriously aggravated by German excessive zeal for austerity, I pondered the following open questions:
- Since the financial crash of 2008, has their been a reversal of social mobility in Europe?
- In austerity ravaged Europe, do the children of wealthy, educated, privileged families have an unfair advantage?
- How should policy-makers encourage greater social mobility in Europe?
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