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Quote by Günter Wallraff
Ich suche mir immer fremde Identitäten aus, weil der Fremde der Gradmesser ist für die Demokratie in einer Gesellschaft.
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The speaker says they repeatedly take on identities seen as foreign or unfamiliar. The reason is that a society’s democracy should be judged by how it regards the stranger—someone outside the familiar group. Democracy here is not measured only by institutions, but also by whether outsiders are treated as part of the society’s moral concern.
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- Ö1 (ORF), „Schwarz auf Weiß“
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- Official Statement
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