gERMENEUTICS

*”garden for traveler” is dealing with stereotypes and cross-border identity

**“In german it is written Türkenkoffer, but if you do not have the ü write it Tuerkenkoffer! Tuerkenkoffer (turkish suitcase) is in fact a bad word for any kind of plastic bag in Germany. In the sense that turkish can not afford a real suitcase, you see.   If I have to carry a lot of things with me I use these strong plastic woven bags as they are very strong and lightweight in the same time. Some people in Germany are referring then to this bag as polish bag. They are connected also with low profile smuggling and black market”

R.R.   

“der polnische koffer  cant really tell something about it but i remember them because of east-berlin railwaystation (lichtenberg) in the 90s from there the trains to the east leave …… and there were always thousands of them once 97 i went to leningrad and the train was full of those ………. the other place i remember is kreuzberg, the turkish part of berlin  i think its a good tool to transport a lot of goods from a rich to a little poorer country :o) (mainly “east” or socialistic) laku noc m.”

M.K.

“Its manufacturer (Zhejiang Daxin Industry Co. Ltd, China; minimum order: 10,000 units) describes it simply as a tote bag, but it has a multitude of names depending on geography.

In Ghana, it is known as the “Ghana must go” bag; in Germany it is “Tuekenkoffer” or the Turkish suitcase; in America, the “Chinatown tote”; in Guyana as “Guyanese Samsonite” and elsewhere as the “Bangladeshi Bag” or the “Refugee Bag”

from “Immigrants have bags of ambition”, by Liz Hunt

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