{"id":897,"date":"2010-08-18T19:37:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T17:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/?p=897"},"modified":"2010-08-18T19:37:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T17:37:51","slug":"get-ready-for-schueberfouer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/get-ready-for-schueberfouer\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ready for Schueberfouer!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In\"\" just two days, Luxembourg will hold the 670th annual Schueberfouer.<\/p>\n

Try to wrap your mind around a tradition that old<\/a>. More than 30 generations. <\/p>\n

As an ex-pat, I’m interested in looking at it from the perspective of cultural integration — or how long it takes to be considered a native. Consider the Daughters of the American Revolution, who have surely been in North America long enough to be considered well-integrated. Yet each of the white DAR members today can only trace her family’s presence in North America back through about 10 generations. So let’s say that a family that stays in the same area for 10 generations is not exactly a far-flung gypsy clan. More like local nobility — or land-bound serfs — but surely local.<\/p>\n

Consider what that means for the Schueberfouer. A merchant at the first Schueberfouer could have migrated to Eastern Europe, founded<\/em> a village there, and his family could have stayed in that village for as long as the USA has existed. Then, one of his descendants could have married a traveler and moved to Ireland. Her family could have lived in a town in Ireland for 10 generations before the upheavals of the 18th Century drove one of her descendants to the American colonies. And then one of her descendants could be a DAR member today, visiting Luxembourg during a summer trip on the family money.<\/p>\n

The entire time, the Schueberfouer has been an annual event in roughly the same spot. (But no roller-coasters until the 20th Century, or for about one-tenth of its history.)<\/p>\n

Anticipation is growing among the residents of Luxembourg that we know, life-long and short-term alike. Some people are looking forward to the hubbub of the outdoor beer gardens. Others, the giant Ferris wheel that takes you high above the city.<\/p>\n

To get you<\/em> ready for the Schueberfouer, we’ve posted photos from our visit to the fair last year. Enjoy the photoset<\/a>, but be warned that some photos may not be safe for work (i.e. NSFW). The phrase “family fun event” means something slightly different in Luxembourg than in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In just two days, Luxembourg will hold the 670th annual Schueberfouer. Try to wrap your mind around a tradition that old. More than 30 generations. As an ex-pat, I’m interested in looking at it from the perspective of cultural integration — or how long it takes to be considered a native.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,6,620,201],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}