Word: teutonic
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...Yigitoglu is one of many young migrants for whom the Teuton tongue is a truly foreign language. "Most third-generation Turks in Germany do not have a sufficient knowledge of German even though most of them have been born and raised here," says Ali Ucar, a professor of pedagogy at Berlin's Technical University. In a study of 273 preschool children from immigrant families in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, most of whom were of Turkish origin, Ucar found that 63% of the children spoke little or no German and thus "didn't meet the linguistic requirements for primary school." Similar...
...TOUGH TEUTON...
...look up DuBois' great book The Souls of Black Folk and admire again its rolling thunder: "After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world--a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world ... One ever feels his twoness,--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings ." Will DuBois' famous refrain--"the problem of the Twentieth Century...
Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Kelt, and Slav...
...story begins, she is tolerating a routine of more-or-less intermittent rape; soon she is submitting a bit more cheerfully to one of her husband's students, Sam; by the end of the book she has left both of them in favor of a muscular blond Teuton who offers her what is evidently meant to be fulfillment...