#Did I write the following paragraph properly (I know it's weird)

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worthy condor
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It's excellent, grammar-wise. There is just one slight problem with the vocab: "Kreuzung" only works for plants and animals. I guess you'll have to use "gegen Mischehen" instead (which sounds revoltingly racist, but then, I guess that's the point?) Also, I'd replace "eines anderen Landes" with "aus einem anderen Land".

worthy condor
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No. Definitely not. "Mischehen" is already pretty bad.

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In Germany, the word "race/Rasse" is exclusively used in animal breeding.

worthy condor
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Because it was mainly used during Nazi times, for "mixed" marriages of Jewish and "Aryan" people.

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I don't think so.

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I mean, saying Germans and Turks belong to different races seems simply ludicrous to me.

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I have a question, too: what were those genocides? @torn pulsar

worthy condor
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Well... wasn't the objective to write something in German? That's what you did, so, all good, isn't it? ;)

worthy condor
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Well, a non-offensive way of talking about this would probably be "interkulturelle Ehen"

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Probably. I mean, it's not as if "interkulturell" were a rare word. 🤷

worthy condor
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"vom Land" = from the country, i.e. a farmer, somebody who lives in a village -> this makes no sense whatsoever, I'm afraid. ;)

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Yes. Except, of course, there are a great many people from Turkish families in Germany, many of them with a German passport. Which is why I kept avoiding this option. 🤷

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You said "aus einem anderen Land" = from a different country. So, wouldn't somebody whose grandparents or great-grandparents left Turkey for Germany also be "somebody from a different country"? Without being "objectionable" to the Turkish community?