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Glocal Life is a weblog established by an international group of young communications researchers in the Department of Intercultural Business Communication at the Friedrich Schiller University (Jena, Germany).

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  • I like you. Stay away from my country.

    Posted on Monday August 20th, 2007 at 08:26 in perceptions

    As a foreigner living in Germany, it's hard not to notice a certain kind of affection Germans have for Spaniards and Italians. Much of Germany's of their terrible easy-listening (Schlager) music, for example, is about some dark-haired girl from N...

  • At the start of the Weimar "Yiddish Summer"

    Posted on Saturday July 14th, 2007 at 16:23 in perceptions

    New York Times 12.07.2007 In the next days, the city of Weimar Germany (where I currently live), will be hosting its annual Yiddish Summer festival. Formerly known as the "Klezmer Week", it's mostly a musical celebration and quite a lot of fun. I u...

  • Thou shalt not say "Grocar Rife"

    Posted on Friday July 13th, 2007 at 04:25 in perceptions

    I'd like to stay with the Asian theme from my comment on a previous Glocal Life post. But really it is only my examples that are Asian. My questions and observations are related to Europe and my own country, the United States. The context here is...