Here's another anchor tenant planning to move in by September. Currently this new "University of Logistics" is marketing to prospective students with quotes from administrative staff and a few good looking college professors.
"You concentrate on studying, while we take care of the details" promise a couple of staff from the admissions department. I found this statement unselfconsciously funny. I thought a student of logistics would actually get a kick out of organisational planning. Coming from a US academic world, I also found it odd that there were no black people in any of the advertising. There were a couple of vaguely Asian looking students, but this was definitely a whites-only message. Sort of strange in a big port city like Hamburg, but representative of Germany in general I've found..
Racial diversity just isn't so important here. It's obvious.
Yesterday I was addressed in a mocking way by a group of Russian or Slavic language roughs, staggering through, where else I suppose, the Reeperbahn. They were responding to what they assumed about my dark hair and generalized somewhere from Asia not sure where though features. I suppose I could have said the only words of Chinese "Ni hao" that I know. Or responded in my only for special occasions Margaret Thatcher-channeling Language teacher English. Instead I ignored them. Too easy to shock not even a challenge.
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