İ was in the mood doing absurd stuff in the evening. So İ decided to go to goetheinstitut to watch soccer and the german community there watching it. İ was prepared to the worst, for them wanting to integrate me, for thausands of black-red-yellow flags and other items, but what İ saw, wasn`t any better, but different.

After preparing my role, doing a sociologic resaerch, estimating micro and macro layers, qualitative and quantitative variables, this and that, entering the scene İ suddenly realized, that İ forgot something. This german community in İstanbul is identifying themselves by nationality, of course, but not least by social standing. what İ entered was not the proletarian setting of drunken songs and kind of violence, İ expected, it was very settled and bourgois. İ was seated by a waitor to an empty table and so İ had no need and hardly any chance to communicate, which İ was prepared to, for resaerch and for some kind provocation.
But on the other hand, despite the setting of being serious, welledudated and rich, it was, on a closer view worse than İ expected by the menings, what was sayable and said. really, İ would exspect an “Eisernes Kreuz” in some pub in eastern germany, but not here.

As the tables were quite seperated and hardly any interaction between took place, İ had to catch some conversation. but what İ catched, was ugly. dispite the men, or the one, trying to show his expertism, the only public reaktion to the game was, when a italian player was fouled - it was declared as typical italian to fall, not to stand as a deutsche eiche - which was not said … we are educated, isn`t it.
ok, all this didn`t surprize me. İt is considered to be normal to support “your” team. there was nobody not supporting germany, so this had no point to get agressive, thats why people go to goetheinstitut probably.
what İ was surprized about, was the reaction of the dark-skinned player, the one with the nr 22 entered the scene. evrybody was rouning and someone said: someone like him is playing for germany!” - this really İ thought, is not the public oppinion in germany, but more or less those of NPD-supporters.
ok, the evening was boring, and just because the entrnce fee was high, the drinks cheap, İ stayed for another beer, and so observed tne 120th minute, were germany was kicked out. - and then went home, a little drunken.
just because İ had a camera with me and İ couldn`t believe - they are really renewing istiklal, which was renewd last year - turkish stones, nationalism is not reserved to germany …