Author/Authoress: | Alheit, Peter |
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Title: | Ostdeutsche Fremdheitskonstruktionen |
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Volume: | 9 |
Year: | 2002 |
Issue No.: | 4 |
Pages: | 22–25 |
Abstract: | Is there anything to the cliché of the xenophobic and violence-prone East German? More than many will like: Three modernization and informalisation defects more common to the society of the former GDR than to the Czech Republic or Poland make these defense mechanisms against foreigners more understandable: • a certain „intergenerational resistance to modernisation”, • a GDR-specific „egalitarian outlook” and • a continuation of subtly racist attitudes within families. The addressing of constructs of foreignness could become subject of international political educational projects with the eastern neighbours. |