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Old November 17th, 2010 #14
Kind Lampshade Maker
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Originally Posted by Alex Linder View Post
...Fremdschämen - feeling for others the embarrassment they should but dont feel for their dress, behavior, etc...
This link popped up, today:

http://bazonline.ch/leben/dossier/le...story/18534071

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...In Leserbriefen und Onlinekommentaren, auf Facebook, in Blogs posaunen Menschen heraus: «Ich schäme mich, Schweizer zu sein» oder «Ich schäme mich für die Schweiz», manche rufen sogar «Ich schäme mich, Mensch zu sein»...
Maybe, they use this term more often, if even exclusively, in Switzerland. Still doesn't make much sense, though. A direct translation: strange shaming/foreign shaming.
Germans often use the phrase "fremd gehen" (going unknown/going strange) to describe having sexual encounters with people who they haven't met before
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