Hello 🙂
Yesterday, unfortunately, we had the last meeting of this course, even though we will definitely try to meet again someday. We watched the game of Bayern Munich against Leipzig, while we were preparing Tacos and a smoothie as desert. We discussed about the right of free speech.. Ahmed claimed that everything should be allowed to say, even though it is not based on facts and contradicts scientific research. For example, Ahmed stated that everyone should be allowed to deny the holocaust (note: Ahmed is totally aware of holocaust’s reality). In my perception, the right of free speech should be restricted, because it is sometimes just violating and disrespectful (e.g. referring to the victims of the holocaust). Moreover, I value adjustments of fake news, as Twitter did during the Trump campaign and especially regarding the “stolen” election. Finally, we agreed that both of us are tremendously influenced by our historical background. Ahmed is really sensitive regarding restrictions of speech, while the history of holocaust is a tender spot for me as a German.
All in all, this meeting was really interesting again. I value Ahmed as a person and admire his open-mindedness. During the previous ten meetings, it became apparent that our cultures are different, but both of us have a quite similar world view. To sum it up, due to this each one teach one course, I have learned a couple Arab phrases and important terms (ordering drinks, small talk, ingredients, shopping…). Furthermore, and this is my personal outcome of this course, I definitely expanded my cultural knowledge and I am now more aware of the country Palestine and its history as well as the religious traditions of Arabs.
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