If you have ever been to Bavaria, you have at least once heard people bragging about having done their Abitur (highschool graduation) in Bavaria. Because of course it is the best. Right after this, usually comes a mention as the ultimate proof of the Pisa studies results, where Bavaria has been ranked first for years.
God did that get on my nerves! I love Bavaria, I really do and usually i love Bavarian people, but there are three topics which I need to avoid if I don't want to lose it:
1. FC Bayern (except if we are talking old games with Ballack shirtless),
2. the bavarian Abitur
3. the Solidaritätszuschlag (solidarity tax everybody has to pay in order to finance reconstruction and renovation in the former East Germany)
Now, I am gonna be able to get back to topic 2 relaxed because the Bavarian pride got seriously hit there, and mean as I am, I am a little happy with that.
I had to hear a thousand times, Bavarian young people (some of my friends even) despising de facto the rest of Germany, especially the former East. The hitting points are always economy and education, and I just can't help but getting pissed of by so much permanent badly hidden arrogance.
God did that get on my nerves! I love Bavaria, I really do and usually i love Bavarian people, but there are three topics which I need to avoid if I don't want to lose it:
1. FC Bayern (except if we are talking old games with Ballack shirtless),
2. the bavarian Abitur
3. the Solidaritätszuschlag (solidarity tax everybody has to pay in order to finance reconstruction and renovation in the former East Germany)
Now, I am gonna be able to get back to topic 2 relaxed because the Bavarian pride got seriously hit there, and mean as I am, I am a little happy with that.
I had to hear a thousand times, Bavarian young people (some of my friends even) despising de facto the rest of Germany, especially the former East. The hitting points are always economy and education, and I just can't help but getting pissed of by so much permanent badly hidden arrogance.
Bavaria is better, blablabla PISA study Blablabla.
I actually saw people wave with a sign of the hand some other students better grade by a simple "yeah well, but I did MY abitur in Bavaria". Trust me, this can be pretty mean and/or particularly annoying - especially to the other 70 Million Germans, the non-bavarian ones, that are often treated like morons because they did their Abitur somewhere else.
And now, these 70 Million (and I) can laugh a little at the reaction of the good bavarian people, getting upset at the coffee machine this morning: "Have you heard????" Indeed, Bavaria got its behind kicked at the ultimate study it used to prove itself superior to the rest of the world: the very serious Pisa Study.
The Pisa people put Bavaria only second. Yeah bouhouhou, that's sad...wait, no it is not. It's actually a little funny. Funnier is that the Land that got first at the Pisa ranking is...
...Saxony! The other Freistaat, the own neighbour actually of Bavaria, which for those who don't know, belonged to former Eastern Germany (gasp!) and THAT is for Bavaria the utlimate kick.
1 comments:
Nooooooooooo... how could that happen??? Armageddon must be right in front of the door...
ah, but anyways when i did my abitur it was still the best - and no one can take that from me ;)
just kidding: kids in bavarian schools are being told all the time, that they have to do and learn so much more for their abitur than kids in other parts of the country... maybe thats one of the reasons bavarians are so font of it - its for all the times they were stucked in a small room with books while other kids went out for swimming....
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