Saturday, June 29, 2013

Immigrant Garden Gnomes

The slow German summer news season (literally the "summer hole") invariably spawns reports on the Loch Ness monster.

This year, however, the tabloid Bild Zeitung found a topic of true historic significance.

In between not one but two awful police violence stories, next to scantily clad young women, the paper reports in its 29 June edition that the symbol of German front lawns - the pointy hat garden gnome - has immigrant roots in what is modern day Turkey.

To the K-landnews this is really no news, as our regular readers know. Most of the population of Germany has some immigrants somewhere, if not in the past couple of generations, then you should find them a couple of hundred years back.

The significance of the Bild Zeitung report is the report itself.

Given that the hollow gnomes sometimes serve as hide-a-keys, we wonder if there are Germans who have reservations about entrusting their house key to an immigrant.

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