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Angela Merkel as a Rasta: Germany’s fixation with Jamaica explained
BERLIN — The world’s focus may gradually be shifting away from the United States and toward other key powers such as China, but Germans are currently captivated by a far different, more unlikely candidate for world hegemony: Jamaica.
The island nation’s yellow-green-black flag is appearing on front pages here on a regular basis now, while activists everywhere around Berlin are carrying balloons with the same colors. German reporters have even embarked on the long journey to the Caribbean to figure out how Jamaicans feel about German politics. (Not too strongly, according to stunned German correspondents there.)
In fact, this sudden German fascination with the land of the Rastafarians has more to do with editors searching for interesting front pages and article art in the midst of stultifying governing coalition talks than a Teutonic tilt toward the Caribbean.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.3fa664671b84
BERLIN — The world’s focus may gradually be shifting away from the United States and toward other key powers such as China, but Germans are currently captivated by a far different, more unlikely candidate for world hegemony: Jamaica.
The island nation’s yellow-green-black flag is appearing on front pages here on a regular basis now, while activists everywhere around Berlin are carrying balloons with the same colors. German reporters have even embarked on the long journey to the Caribbean to figure out how Jamaicans feel about German politics. (Not too strongly, according to stunned German correspondents there.)
In fact, this sudden German fascination with the land of the Rastafarians has more to do with editors searching for interesting front pages and article art in the midst of stultifying governing coalition talks than a Teutonic tilt toward the Caribbean.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.3fa664671b84
Paul Marin -19 is one thing, 20 is a whole other matter. It gets even worse if they win the UCL. *groan*. 
05/18/2011.MU fans naah cough, but all a unuh a vomit?-Lazie 1/11/2015
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