That's exactly my point. It's generalization to suggest that "Vienna is awesome". It's is not so for many people now a days, who live there, or just visit.
Imagine walking into a bread shop and not being greeted by the "beautiful" Austrian girl (you know, blue eyes, blonde hair shtick) just because you look a Turk/Moroccan. Rather the the typical greeting, you're treated with a "YES!" - Imagine what it makes you feel, knowing that no matter how much more educated you are then this simple peasant, she knows she can humiliate you. In the past she could refuse to server you, hang a note on the door: "No Jews or Dogs." - Just saying.
I've heard so many stories from friends and colleagues living in Vienna, Amsterdam, Paris and London, I really take it seriously. It really is strange for me to hear "awesome" in connection with Vienna.
Europe was once full of labor and concentration camps. It might never happen again, but lets not forget that then it was the Jews. Now it's Muslims. Nobody really thought the Jews are going to "take over", but this is what modern Europeans believe Muslims are about to do today.
There were 191,000 Jews living in Austria before WWII, only 12,000 after.
So, when claiming a place like Vienna (with it's horrible record, past and present) is "awesome" just pause and remember what happend there in the 1930's, and what is going on there, and elsewhere in Europe, these days.
Well, your people played it on mine. So, just a reminder. "Austria" the beautiful is skin deep. Great architecture, wonderful "culture", only as long as you ignore the reality of Europe these days. Racism is raising it's ugly head again in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and of course France (one of the worst) and the UK. It's not all beautiful architecture and culture. Part of your culture is the very recent past, and unfortunately, the present.
Are Turks and/or Moroccans welcomed in Austria these days, or will I be chased into a corner by a mob and get bitten to death?
Considering Austria's atrocious credentials as a collaborator with the Nazi's during WWII, seems like it, as well as many European countries these days, descend quickly into familiar bestial self.
No wonder this offer is aiming Americans. Only lots are not white. Sorry.
Imagine walking into a bread shop and not being greeted by the "beautiful" Austrian girl (you know, blue eyes, blonde hair shtick) just because you look a Turk/Moroccan. Rather the the typical greeting, you're treated with a "YES!" - Imagine what it makes you feel, knowing that no matter how much more educated you are then this simple peasant, she knows she can humiliate you. In the past she could refuse to server you, hang a note on the door: "No Jews or Dogs." - Just saying.
I've heard so many stories from friends and colleagues living in Vienna, Amsterdam, Paris and London, I really take it seriously. It really is strange for me to hear "awesome" in connection with Vienna.
Europe was once full of labor and concentration camps. It might never happen again, but lets not forget that then it was the Jews. Now it's Muslims. Nobody really thought the Jews are going to "take over", but this is what modern Europeans believe Muslims are about to do today.
There were 191,000 Jews living in Austria before WWII, only 12,000 after.
So, when claiming a place like Vienna (with it's horrible record, past and present) is "awesome" just pause and remember what happend there in the 1930's, and what is going on there, and elsewhere in Europe, these days.