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’Kassenbon’ means racism in German | ||
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| schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5559 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 17 of 26 19 April 2015 at 11:15pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Sounds like a harmless everyday event. The old man was presumably trying to
attract your attention to your faux pas. Sometimes people act the fool a bit. Sometimes they make jokes. Maybe it was at your expense. Maybe it wasn't. Have you never made a joke at a stranger's expense? It doesn't mean it was racist, although people probably do say things they wouldn't otherwise say, when they think someone won't understand. I must confess, I always find it difficult to understand what cashiers say. I think I read once, that going shopping was a good way of practicing you're language, as there was a fairly limited number of things a cashier was likely to say, but I find them quite varied. Edited by schoenewaelder on 19 April 2015 at 11:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 18 of 26 20 April 2015 at 1:57am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I think it's a good way for those who are living in L2 country. Also, going shopping is good for seeing all the labels and learning what things are called (what I do in Swedish whenever I'm in Finland :)).
The cashier does have a limited amount of things to say, but they're often culturally specific and/or idiomatic. Some examples are asking whether you need a plastic bag, a receipt, whether you have this or that kind of discount card, whether you're aware of a specific discount program (like "buy 4 and get the 5th for free"). The good news is that most of these are easy to demonstrate, you just need some stock phrases like "i don't understand" or "could you explain that?" 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 22 of 26 20 April 2015 at 4:10am | IP Logged | ||||||||
You mixed us up ;) I'm the one who said this definitely stinks like discrimination, but that being discriminated for your looks or language skills is not the same as racism. Anyway, I'm not so sure about getting beaten. Maybe only because the clerk wouldn't be protected by the professional association. And honestly I'm against fighting (verbal) violence with more violence. This only makes it easier for bigots to justify their bigotry :( Edited by Serpent on 20 April 2015 at 4:16am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Kronos Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5260 days ago 186 posts - 452 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 23 of 26 20 April 2015 at 4:13am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Here is an overview linking to the various regional German consumer organizations. It's in German however, and I'm also not sure racism is part of the assigned tasks of such organizations. If you are serious about reporting the incident I would rather consider getting into contact with the agency set up by the government for such issues: Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency Edited by Kronos on 20 April 2015 at 4:26am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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