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>the entire education industry is a racket
I am aware

What I mean isn't filler, it's to ease the students into the conversational approach since it's different from the grammar approach in high schools and because the class is usually taught in German

It's a book on German, because I teach German
>look at the "Wie heißt die Person? Woher kommt die Person? Wofür ist die Person bekannt?" exercise in the introductory chapter before chapter 1
>made it gender-neutral but that's a minimal nitpick for me, who cares even if the phrasing is good but odd
>the people they chose:
>Albert Einstein (German)
>Billie Eilish (American of Scottish and Irish descent)
>Frida Kahlo (Mexican)
>Robyn "Rihanna" Fenty (Barbadian)
>Lionel Messi (Argentinian of Italian and Spanish descent)
>Malala Yousafzai (Pakistani of Pashtun descent)
>Marie Skłodowska-Curie (Polish scientist who moved to France)
>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austrian)
>Naomi Osaka (American of Haitian-American and Japanese descent; represents Japan)
>Nelson Mandela (South African of Xhosa origin)
>Pedro Pascal (Chilean-American)
>RuPaul Charles (known mononymously as "RuPaul"; African-American)
>Sam Smith (British singer-songwriter of English origin)
>Timothée Chalamet (French-American)
>Zendaya Coleman (known mononymously as "Zendaya"; American of mixed African-American and Caucasian-American [German and Scottish] descent)
>only two have anything to do whatsoever with DACHLänder culture/language/history

Now I want to make my own list because there's a whole lot of famous German-speaking people to choose from, as well as avoiding the awkward situation where I ask my class for famous Germans, Austrians, Swiss, Liechtensteiners, or even German/Austrian/Swiss-Americans to avoid an awkward silence and/or someone saying "Hitler", which though true is a bit difficult to segue from