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		<title>Are German Parents as Superior as French Parents?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal published another provocative piece on one certain &#8220;ethnic&#8221; parenting style superior than the American one. I put ethnic in quotes as I refer first to the Tiger parenting style written and described by Amy Chua early last year. Chua talked about the hardline, rather Spartan style which Chinese parents in particular [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/02/20/are-german-parents-as-superior-as-french-parents/</link>
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		<title>The Naked Truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was one very significant event that I happened to omit from my last blog, regarding my recent trip to Davos.  In truth, I just wasn’t quite ready to talk about it yet. The incident was somewhat traumatizing, or at least severely uncomfortable, and it left me feeling as though all of the acclimatizing and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/02/13/the-naked-truth/</link>
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		<title>Grocery Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There I was on Saturday morning at the grocery store, my cart full, hastily putting my items on the checkout band. I sent two parties ahead of me to the cashier, knowing I would need a little extra time; my weekly groceries still filled the cart and my attempts to organize the checkout band for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/02/06/grocery-culture/</link>
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		<title>Mark Twain in Berlin: Back a book!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Twain traveled the world and wrote about it in several of his books. When I went to Hawaii, I learned that Twain had long ago beat me to it, back when the Hawaiian Islands were still better known as the Sandwich Islands. I also knew he had been to Europe and Germany, but I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/02/02/mark-twain-in-berlin-back-a-book/</link>
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		<title>Tricks of the trade for the metrically-challenged</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier blog I wrote about the many little differences in daily culture that can sometimes frustrate expats in German-speaking Europe. I listed 15 &#8220;Kleinigkeiten&#8221; that may or may not be minor matters – from traffic signal placement to the bare kitchen. But today we&#8217;ll discuss a different sort of pesky cultural difference, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/01/23/tricks-of-the-trade-for-the-metrically-challenged/</link>
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		<title>You went to Davos and didn&#8217;t ski?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have often joked that Switzerland may be the only place on earth where gyms are completely deserted during the month of January. I remember going for the ubiquitous January 2nd workout last year, anticipating the typical hordes of resolution bandwagoners, but I ended up having the place all to myself.  The reason for this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/01/18/you-went-to-davos-and-didnt-ski/</link>
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		<title>Homesick?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I write this, I am dazed with jet lag. In this haze, the thoughts I had on the airplane for this blog post are distant and somewhat difficult to grasp. The moment we arrived back in Europe, it was as if the trip had never happened. Three weeks of the Great Northwest, soaking in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/01/09/homesick/</link>
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		<title>Some R&amp;R for German Mothers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession. This might not come as a surprise to some of you, but it&#8217;s actually been tough being a mother to three children under the age of five. Especially in the last few months as my youngest has become more sensitive to noise and light, and as I&#8217;ve had to try to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/01/01/1762/</link>
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		<title>The German Past raises its ugly head</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago I opened my local newspaper here in Reno and turned to the &#8220;Nation &#38; World&#8221; section. Wow! A huge headline jumped out at me: &#8220;Germany links serial killings to neo-Nazi sympathizers: Turks are outraged by slow action.&#8221; The Reno Gazette-Journal rarely contains any news from Germany, but there it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2011/12/26/the-german-past-raises-its-ugly-head/</link>
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		<title>Expat Hospitality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I have mentioned before, my husband is a professional hockey player, now playing here in Switzerland.  We spend nine exciting months of each year in Europe, then three whirlwind months in Canada. As much as we adore our time overseas, it always requires some adjustment, spending holidays with people we’ve just met; new teammates [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2011/12/19/expat-hospitality/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t be Stuffy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, a building contractor told me a story that scared me enough to change my habits: “I worked with a young couple recently who fully remodeled an old house. They both worked full-time. Every morning, they both got up, took showers, got dressed and left for work, to return again late in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2011/12/12/dont-be-stuffy/</link>
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		<title>German cuisine: a comforting constant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the small things that charmed me about our San Diego neighborhood when I first visited it, was the presence of a small, independent used cookbook store. I&#8217;d manage to only wander in once during my first year here. Sadly, it&#8217;s closing this Christmas. The owner explained to me that she can make more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2011/12/05/german-cuisine-a-comforting-constant/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: The Berlin Wall Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Berlin Wall Today: Remnants, Ruins, Remembrances by Eva C. Schweitzer (photographer), Michael Cramer (foreword) Publisher: Berlinica It&#8217;s amazing how quickly the massive, 100-mile-long Berlin Wall disappeared after it was first breached on the night of November 9, 1989. By the time of official German reunification in 1990, most of the Wall that had stood [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2011/11/28/book-review-the-berlin-wall-today/</link>
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		<title>Cheese Please!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the cool fog starts rolling across Lake Zurich, and the neon green foothills begin showing white frosting on top, my thoughts immediately turn to the tastes of Swiss winter foods. Last fall during my first few months in Switzerland, I started hearing people talk about some Swiss dish called Raclette. I had heard the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2011/11/21/cheese-please/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Almanya&#8221; in San Diego</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; San Diego kicked off its first German Film Festival last month. It seemed to be a long time coming considering that there are an estimated 100,000 Germans living in the San Diego metro area and Orange County. The festival opened with the screening of &#8220;Almanya &#8211; Willkommen in Deutschland,&#8221; a movie written by two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2011/11/15/almanya-in-san-diego/</link>
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