Reading yet another article about Germany's declining birthrate:
Me: It says here that 25% of Akademikerinnen (= women with a university degree) never have kids at all. I'm doing pretty good, then, with three, aren't I?
MS: You aren't in the category "Akademikerinnen". You are in the category "Frauen mit Migrationshintergrund."
(p.s., that's "immigrant woman", for the unitiated.)
Me: It says here that 25% of Akademikerinnen (= women with a university degree) never have kids at all. I'm doing pretty good, then, with three, aren't I?
MS: You aren't in the category "Akademikerinnen". You are in the category "Frauen mit Migrationshintergrund."
(p.s., that's "immigrant woman", for the unitiated.)