editedThis is an article I read last nightnytimes.com/2015/11/18/world/europe/migrants-germany-culture-shock-in-the-promised-land.html
- When one of Berlin's most popular gay clubs recently held a fund-raising party for refugees, Vivien Roos took along a group of young Afghans and Syrians.........By and large she was right: The men politely declined alcoholic drinks and mingled happily on the dance floor. It was only when two German men started having sex in plain sight that Ms. Roos rushed her group outside. "One of the boys asked me, 'What's that?'" she said. "I just held my hand over his eyes."
-At a temporary home for male teenage refugees in the southeastern city of Passau, a German teacher recounted how a 15-year-old boy from Afghanistan refused to touch his food at lunch. Asked why, he explained that he would not eat as long as a woman was sitting at the same table.........."Dogs don't eat at the table, either," he said matter-of-factly.
- Sometimes there is little to laugh about. Near the German-Austrian border, an Arabic-speaking volunteer was translating when she noticed a woman with a badly bruised face. "Did you do that to her?" the volunteer demanded of the woman's husband. He did not answer, but he smiled with what the volunteer described as visible discomfort. "You're in Germany now," she recalled telling him. "You have to be a good man and observe the law."
- In Dortmund, an Iraqi refugee who was waiting to register his asylum claim got into a heated argument with another migrant about the Israelis and the Palestinians. The Jews, he concluded, were responsible for much of the suffering of Arabs. A charity worker of Moroccan origin explained to him, in Arabic, that such attitudes were not acceptable - particularly in Germany.