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<div>In the previous message about Air Berlin's refusal to use Catalan on routes to areas</div>
<div>where Catalan is official, there was a cartoon that failed to make it into the message.</div>
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<div><img title="scairberlin" height="300" alt="Air Berlin image" src="http://carlosquiles.com/indo-european-language-blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/scairberlin-222x300.jpg" width="222" align="right">The text accompanying this is full of ethno-linguistic stereotypes. As far as I understand it, </div>
<div>it says (in dialect) "If they come here to Bavaria, the Pig-Prussian [SauPreisischen] Catalans</div>
<div>better speak Bavarian." The next word is not legible to me, but I think it contains</div>
<div>the word "Turks". The image shows a red-faced man in Lederhosen, mountains in the background, slamming his fist down on the table so hard that his hat flies off and he spills his beer.</div>
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<div>Anybody have any comments on this? I'm not sure what a Bavarian is doing in a </div>
<div>cartoon about Air Berlin and Catalan, but perhaps there's a subtext I am too </div>
<div>culturally insensitive to pick up on.</div>
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<div>HS</div>
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