However, after the black-German, Wallraff, left an apartment where such politically-correct conversation had taken place in traditional Prussian exactness, his own colleagues from his documentary team for the film came into look at renting the same flat.
When these Caucasian-German colleagues spoke to the landlady "only to hear many bad words about how horrible Wallraff as black Somolia-born man had made that poor German landlady feel, e.g. so uncomfortable. She almost whined, "That kind of black hair doesn't belong here. Oooooah.
http://www.film-zeit.de/Film/21016/G%C3%BCNTER-WALLRAFF-SCHWARZ-AUF-WEI%C3%9F/Crew/
The book, BLACK LIKE ME, is still on reading lists throughout the United States of America "even thought John Howard Griffin originally published his experiment as black man in America almost 5 decades ago. So, perhaps a few decades from now, Germans will still be reading and seeing Guenther Wallraff books and documentaries.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howard_Griffin
In short, just as late in the 1950s America, John Howard Griffin, traveled for weeks around the USA in a public Greyhound bus disguised as black man, Guenther Wallraff has been up to the same tricks in Germany for many decades as an undercover-journalist.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Black-like-Me/John-Howard-Griffin/e/9780451192035
The exercise of not-just-stepping-into-the-other's-shoes but jumping-into-the-other's skin is important now and again for Germany and every other society to undertake and imagine.
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