CULTURAL ENRICHMENT: Germany: “I can’t take it anymore,” says anonymous female asylum worker. (Source: Die Welt.) Google translation:

The collaboration with 90 percent of those whom I meet is rather unpleasant . . .

First, many of them are extremely demanding. They . . . demand . . . an apartment and a fancy car . . . If I . . . try to explain to them that these demands are not immediately possible to fulfill, then they are often noisy and sometimes very aggressive. . . . To an originally Arab colleague of mine they have at times yelled “We will behead you!” . . .

Second, they often give very unreliable information. . . . For example, a resident . . . came with his deportation notice . . . Soon after he came to my colleague and suddenly showed completely new identity documents with a different name . . . He . . . moved to another camp.

Third, they rarely stick to agreements. . . . I make appointments for them, but often they just do not show up. . . .

And fourth, . . . some of the refugees behave belligerently . . . towards women. . . . Primarily single men . . . come to us, about 65 percent or even 70 percent . . . They are all still young, only around 20 . . . It has even become worse . . . as more and more men from North Africa, from Morocco, Tunisia or Libya have come . . . They were even more aggressive. . . . I have started to change my appearance. . . . I put on loose-fitting pants and exclusively high-necked tops. Makeup I use very little anyway . . . Usually I stay in my little office, if possible, all during the day. And I no longer take the train to work and back–because recently a colleague was followed by some of the young men to the metro station and even molested in the train. . . . What would be the alternative then? . . . Of the officials I expect no great help.