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> After about three months it stopped and a month later I was suddenly informed that the clearance had been granted. The other two people whose investigations
by a3w 4y ago
> After about three months it stopped and a month later I was suddenly informed that the clearance had been granted. The other two people whose investigations were begun at the same time did not receive their clearances until several months later.
Mongrels are mixed race dogs, I guess? So just put the concept of "race" under scrutiny, and have your mental health debated. E voilà, your background check takes off fast and intense, and is suddenly about being sane of mind.
https://yarchive.net/risks/mongrel.html https://yarchive.net/risks/mongrel.html
Greetings from germany, where we have ethnicity or, officially, mostly nothing in this place. (Police will kinda inofficially still racial-profile you, since "north-african looking" seems to be easier than to say "tanned, slim and curly hair")
- strken 4y agoThese stories date from the 40s and 50s, and the author notes in one of them that the American forms now use ethnicity too. I suspect that at some point in the 40s Germany would have had a very extensive racial classification system.
- watwut 4y agoHe did not put the concept of race under scrutiny. He used different and much more detailed classification of races.
- DocTomoe 4y agoWell, we do have "Nafri" (North AFRIcans), "Ausländer" (foreigners, but only used for "problematic" foreigners somehow), "Migrationshintergrund" (migration background, meaning everyone who is an immigrant, and anyone related to them for two generations, regardless of nationality), "Südländer" (initially people from the south, such as Italians, Greeks, Jugoslavians, but nowadays "people coming from the middle east"), and - now that the latter has become a charged term - "West-Asians", officially sanctioned by the Berlin police HQ as a non-racially-loaded term, but meaning the same. The euphenism treadmill is strong over here as well.
- AdamN 4y agoI'm a White American living in Berlin, what word would the Berlin police put in my file??
- fransje26 4y agoSozialflüchtling
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- DocTomoe 4y ago... which translates to "refugee for healthcare/unemployment benefits/social benefits reasons", implying that they never paid a dime in, but happily take out of the pot nontheless. fransje26 meant this as a joke, but the term has been used unironically to refer to East-Europeans (and the situation in the States regarding the non-existance of a functional social safety net would render them relatively similar in this case).
- DocTomoe 4y agoWell, if you get in contact with the police for any reason, you obviously are a problematic person, so "Ausländer".
- avereveard 4y agoreminds me of an old story where the development team was convinced they had a good product, but feared about management intermingling, so they intentionally put a not so good feature front and center for the manager to "remove", so that the rest of the program could pass the demo unchanged.