Identity |Self-ethnicization
Excerpt from Hausmeisterblog
Other critics point out a curious contradiction. Someone like the hardcore rapper Bushido, who grew up in Tempelhof and insists on his lower-class origins, can sing that he’s the one “who fucks you when the sun doesn’t shine, who is perverse and screws hos...and who kills you all.” But at the same time he’ll appear at anti-violence concerts sponsored by Bravo, a magazine for German preteens. His fans, mostly white middle class, may be confused, but not Omid Nouripour, a B?ndnistag representative and speaker for the Migrant and Refugee Study Group of the Green Party. He expressly welcomes the idea that Bravo would invite a musician who glorifies violence to appear at an anti-violence concert. Not because of some abstract dialectic but because in this way the singer “can alienate his rhymes from their claim to ‘realness.’” In this case, alienating oneself is something positive because it leads from the reality of the ghetto into the relatively harmless pleasures of Central Europe’s middle class. This fading away from realiness is sometimes referred to as “authentic inauthenticity.”
