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jasonh
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Registered: March 2004
Location: Brooklyn!
Posts: 518
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Sun August 12, 2007 9:14am
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What does Gastarbeiter mean?
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"Life is serious, but art is fun." - John Irving
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Valery
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Registered: October 2006
Posts: 397
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Sun August 12, 2007 11:11am
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It's German. Means "guest worker". As you may know the USSR desintegrated more than 15 years ago. Muslim republics obtained freedom, independence but not prosperity. So now the majority of manual workers here are citizens of former sovjet republics. (Yes, Moscow now looks very much like Paris). And the "guests" tend to stay here, bring their families etc, etc. Why are they called by a German term? It's historical, WWII and all that. Nobody here knows German, but some words merged into Russian. And "gastarbaiter" is one of them.
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