New way of integration

Integration – What we can learn from animals
 
I am just back from 5 weeks in Bavaria, getting to know our new holiday home in the hilly countryside of the Bavarian Woods. We bought the house back in the Spring, spent 4 weeks there in the Summer and now it was time to spend some time gardening. The Winters there can have a lot of snow so we prepared the beautiful flowers and trees for the cold to come. We made them ready to hibernate, like a lot of animals do.
 
Talking about animals; we started out with 2 kittens, 3 chickens and a yellow Labrador. Their first week together – one house, one garden – they fought continuously, hiding from each other one minute, then jumping out at each other the next. Several times a day it was the same story – manners were non-existent, they’d be screaming at each other and making up their own rules. However, as time passed, they stayed around each other more, became more accepting of one another and by the end of the week they got along just fine. That might well be the best (if hardest) way to integrate; first, make your stand, from your point of view. Then, be clear, aggressive even (and egotistic) and at your own speed, accept the others and be accepted by them. Once you are that far, then no arguments or fights anymore – just getting along with one another and living happily ever after. No culture shock at all.
 
Wouldn’t it be great if any time new folks appeared, after an initial short run-in with the locals – perhaps a bit of shouting and screaming, why not? – then… everybody just gets along with everybody else? Imagine how lovely that would be!

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