The imprecision is something what I start to call the foreign-correspondent-culture-war-pipeline: Something happens in a country. Because of misunderstandings it becomes a minor topic in public discussion for two days or so. A foreign correspondent starts to write about, because it touches on a culture war topic in their own country. But because any foreign journalism have limited space for context and culture the article has a slightly distorted and abbreviated view. Because a lot of people a monolinguists and of course have little time, that English article becomes the authoritative source for the Anglosphere.
I somewhat did like the VW Currywurst the one time I was in Wolfsburg/Autostadt. But it was different from home - the Ruhr area. Sometimes we forget that even something simple as the Currywurst has regional differences. And then there is Berlin.
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The imprecision is something what I start to call the foreign-correspondent-culture-war-pipeline: Something happens in a country. Because of misunderstandings it becomes a minor topic in public discussion for two days or so. A foreign correspondent starts to write about, because it touches on a culture war topic in their own country. But because any foreign journalism have limited space for context and culture the article has a slightly distorted and abbreviated view. Because a lot of people a monolinguists and of course have little time, that English article becomes the authoritative source for the Anglosphere.
I somewhat did like the VW Currywurst the one time I was in Wolfsburg/Autostadt. But it was different from home - the Ruhr area. Sometimes we forget that even something simple as the Currywurst has regional differences. And then there is Berlin.