Spain's Brain Drain and Germany

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Suzanne Daley and Nicholas Kulish, Brain Drain Feared as German Jobs Lure Southern Europeans; Other Europeans grumble about a braindrain. New York Times, Apr 29, 2012 (front page).
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/2 ... e-to-fill-jobs.html

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Spain's "unemployment just hit a depression-level 24.4 percent.

"The free movement of labor was one of the founding principles of the European Union, a central part of the effort to create a single, unified market. But in more prosperous times, few workers outside of Eastern Europe felt compelled to leave home.

A Spaniard "fears a situation where the northern economies retain industry and the southern ones are left with agriculture and tourism.

"In the last 13 years, the entering classes [to the town Schwäbisch Hall's primary school] have shrunk by about 30 percent. * * * Last year, though, even while deaths once again exceeded births, the German population grew for the first time since 2002, thanks to a net immigration of 240,000 people, nearly double the 128,000 net gain in 2010. Countries like Poland and Romania sent the most, but German government statistics showed thousands more coming from the crisis-stricken southern nations.

"Many of the Spaniards say the work environment in Germany takes getting used to, with Germans far more direct than Spanish people and much quieter. No one makes personal calls during business hours, for instance. But the work day is much shorter. They were surprised that they were expected to greet co-workers each morning with formal handshakes and to call colleagues 'Herr' and 'Frau' (Mr and Ms). Impromptu hallway conversations over work issues were cut off by Germans suggesting it would be more appropriate to schedule a formal meeting. The German fondness for order, often joked about, has proved true


Note:
(a) The name "Aparicio" is

"bestowed especially on children born on or around the Feast of the Epiphany (6 January), Spanish Aparición, which celebrates the appearance of Christ to the Magi. The Spanish vocabulary word aparición means ‘appearance’ or ‘manifestation’. In Portugal and Spain, however, this is found as a forenames only, not a surname."
Patrick Hanks, Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press, 2003.

(b)
(i) Schwäbisch Hall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schw%C3%A4bisch_Hall
("The first part of the name, 'Schwäbisch' refers to the name of the region, Swabia. The most probable origin of the second part of the name 'Hall' is a west Germanic word family that means 'drying something by heating it,' likely referring to the salt production method of heating salty groundwater")
(ii) Swabia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabia
(2,000 years ago, the Suebi or Suevi were an Elbe Germanic tribe whose origin was near the Baltic Sea; They migrated to the southwest)
(iii) Baden-Württemberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg
(state capital is Stuttgart)
(iv) Stuttgart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart
(section 1 Name and coat of arms)

(c) El Dorado
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Dorado
(Spanish for "the golden one"; "is the name of a Muisca tribal chief who covered himself with gold dust and, as an initiation rite, dove into a highland lake. Later it became the name of a legendary 'Lost City of Gold'")
(d) Cristiano Ronaldo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristiano_Ronaldo
(1985- )