German Guide For Refugees: “Women are to be respected, no matter what they wear.”

Miriam Lilian D Or I was wearing a winter coat and this still happened to me, as much as it would have happened if I wore a miniskirt.
Luke Ford By a black man?
Miriam Lilian D Or Yes. It happened Thursday night.
Luke Ford Try not to be racist. Not all black men grope white women.
Luke Ford Try to let go of your white privilege.
Luke Ford Stop taunting black bodies with your white privilege.
Miriam Lilian D Or I admire that he just went for it.

Too many people don’t live life to the full.

Where does one go in LA for the best anti-rape courses? Asking for a friend.

We should make rape education courses mandatory in our schools beginning at age five.

‘No means no’: Norway sends migrants on anti-rape courses

Hå (Norvège) (AFP) – “She kissed him — it’s an invitation to have sex.” The asylum seeker’s answer hangs in the air. The instructor’s smile falters, and an explanation is required.

In Norway, migrants are being given courses to prevent violence against women, especially rape, and to teach them how to interpret customs in a country that may seem surprisingly liberal to them.

The courses were introduced several years ago, but have become particularly topical after complaints of mass sexual assault on New Year’s Eve in the German city of Cologne, by a crowd of mostly Arab and North African men.

This particular morning at the Ha reception centre in southwestern Norway, a dozen Syrian and Sudanese asylum seekers fidget in their seats in a small room as their group discussion starts.

The curtains are drawn and a space heater blasts out hot air to heat up the room, but the participants keep their jackets on.

“The idea behind this course is to talk about risk situations that can arise when it comes to rapes and sexual assaults,” the group’s leader Linda Hagen says, kicking off the class in Norwegian, with an interpreter translating to Arabic.

“We need your help so that we can together detect these situations.”

What is the difference between love and sex? What do these pictures of women projected on a screen bring to mind, one with bare shoulders and the other veiled?

Can the use of violence be legitimate? How do you know if a woman is consenting to sex?

– Cultural misunderstandings –

The participants brainstorm scenarios where cultural differences may cause misunderstandings.

Little by little, they warm up and begin to speak.

According to US News & World Report, Germany is the best country in the world. So of course they will want to import millions of Muslims.

New York Times:

Faced with the task of integrating hundreds of thousands of newcomers into German society, government agencies, private foundations and the state broadcast network have all been looking for ways to explain the country’s history and traditions to recent arrivals in easily understandable public information campaigns.

Those efforts have included: a new guidebook to the country aimed at the small number of refugees who already speak German; a shorter pamphlet available in 13 other languages; a phone app with versions in Arabic, Persian and French; a video podcast series featuring helpful hints in English from a young journalist born in Munich to parents who fled the Vietnam War; and, perhaps least successfully, an attempt to instruct the new arrivals in proper behavior in the form of a 14-panel cartoon similar to an airplane safety information card.

The cartoon guide to “Germany and Its People,” posted online in October by the Bavarian arm of the state broadcaster, Bayerischer Rundfunk, baffled, amused and offended foreign journalists and commentators this week when it entered the online debate over the refugee crisis.

Looking at the part of the guide instructing foreigners not to grope women, beat their children or harass homosexual couples, Jenan Moussa, a reporter based in Dubai, observed that it was difficult to know whether to laugh or cry.

That the guide included a panel discouraging the physical abuse of women was taken by some as a response to the spate of attacks on women in Germany on New Year’s Eve, but in fact it was posted online three months before those assaults.

Despite the serious nature of those crimes, the apparent absurdity of using simple line drawings to try to stamp out offensive behavior by Middle Easterners in Europe inspired one online satirist, the Lebanese-British architect Karl Sharro, to produce his own guide for Western behavior to be avoided in the Middle East.

Mr. Sharro’s illustrations suggested that the West should avoid conducting airstrikes, invading Iraq, furnishing repressive regimes with tear gas and deadly weapons, overlooking the jailing of dissidents and cozying up to autocrats like President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt.

Though Bayerischer Rundfunk’s cartoon guide has attracted this sort of ridicule on social networks, the broadcaster was also involved in the development of the far more sophisticated new app, Ankommen (meaning “arrival” in German), and produced the clear and respectful “Guide for Refugees” video series anchored by Henry Lai, a German reporter of Vietnamese ancestry.