It is common that only engeneers in my country and nearly everywhere learn german to expand ther career and receive a good education in germany.
But i got into it because I m a big fan of humanities.
As an Algerian you can easily be multi-lingual.
Our mother language is Tamazight which a north african language.
Darja, A dialect that contains 3 languages (Frensh,Arabic, Tamazight), is a second language which makes learning frensh in school an easy task.
And we end up learning English from movies, national geographic documanteries and internet .
For a foreigner Berber and and German sound alike because of the presence of the sound [Ch] in the words : ich, mädchen and bücher.
For me language cannot be separated from its own culture. So, German for me is a mindset and an identity.
Frankness and directness are amzing qualities to know they exist in a society that is accustomed to manipulate and delude for the exuse of being nice.
Punctuality as a form of respect and valuing the other self.
In Algeria expect the other person to remember his appointment with you 30 min after the set time.
German language and identity represent Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche who influenced how we see world and also the basis upon which we build our beliefs.
German identity is to make peace with destructive dark past that gave birth to a future that is strong as steal and high as its Alps.
I believe in cultural pluralism and german became one of my multiple indentities.
I am a berber arab frensh english and german and most importantly i m one of the conscience units of wold's puzzle.