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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Losers in the Language Gap | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...TOUGH TEUTON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 13, 2000 | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MUSEUM OF SLAVERY? | 8/14/1995 | See Source »

Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Kelt, and Slav...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Changing Face of America: Just Look Down Broadway | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Well, he thought, well, well, well' | 7/11/1975 | See Source »

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