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Hi, I'm german, let me show you my neuroses
Visiting the Jewish Museum today was interesting. I knew it's said to be architectural very impressive. And it is. But I was also happy about the exhibition as a whole. I would have liked even more information to be available, but that's my general complaint about pretty much any museum.
I also liked that they didn't stop with "and then there was the Holocaust. End of story." but included information on jewish life in Germany today.
I certainly need to go again. For one, I want to go through the exhibition without having to watch the time because I promised N. to help him with his shift. I also want to listen to one of their audio-guides and see how good these are. (Yes. I'm a bit of a museum-freak. I like to rate and compare them. There are worse hobbies)
The one thing I could have done without is learning the fact that Prof. Bitch's last name actually is a common Jewish last name. So common that at certain times people petitioned to have their name legally changed rather than live with the stigma. Now I'm afraid that someone is going to see my hate of the Hexe (as I generally refer to her in daily conversation) as antisemitic instead of simply anti-Prof-Bitch (who, I'm pretty sure, is not jewish at all, which adds another level of silliness to my worries).
I've obviously been properly laden with an overblown guilt-complex as it behoves anyone who went to school in Germany in the last 60 years.
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This is not, of course, to diminish actual reparations to people who were hurt, but nothing irritates me more than BUT MY GRANDPARENTS WERE RUNNING AWAY FROM YOUR GRANDPARENTS AND WHOLE GENERATIONS WERE WIPED OUT HOW DARE YOU (see also, the black dude who's all "Killing white people is the only solution to racism!"... yes, it's true. It's very sad. But until everyone lets go of the past... we can't move beyond it. No, let's not forget it, but can't we all just hold hands and mourn the past and hope for the future?
And I say that, being that my grandparents were chased around by the Japanese soldiers during WWII. But you know what? They have never once complained to me. They may have their personal set of neuroses/biases, but they have never once said anything to me about the horrors they endured. In fact, I don't even know what they are, other than my mother told me once that my grandmother told her about running away from the Japanese soldiers. Yeah. Let's learn from the past, please, but can we just love one another and then we won't have to worry about the whole OMGRACISM!! thing?
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But I can't stop worrying about it.. I don't need other people to blame me, oh no, I do it all by myself. That's a very special kind of messed up.
And I really hope that this is just the result of me being very easily influenced toward feeling guilty. Because if it isn't? I really wouldn't know what to think about the way children are taught about history.
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