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Fortunately I have had the opportunity to learn English in school. It was not my best class neither my favorite but these days I am happy about every snatch of conversation I can do in English. As a blogger and moderator in shrimpnow.com I have daily practice and try to improve my language skills whenever possible. Most people I am talking to are ashamed of talking English because they think they talk clumsy or incomprehensible. They forget about the best: The main point is that English gives you the opportunity to exchange ideas, beliefs, know-how and experiences. And this plus is not limited to shrimp keeping. Dwarf shrimp have fans around the world: One should not think that sticking to his own country or language brings our hobby forward. But lately, there is an unpleasant vanity in German forums: to think that German shrimp breeders will be in pole position soon. Germany = ‘Black Tiger Land’; how priggish! They will be brought back down to earth soon. Let’s wait and see who will be smart ass in the end.

Recently, I noticed an increase of German users in international forums like shrimpnow.com. Knowing most of them by nickname from German forums, I wondered about the reasons for this growing user statistics?
These are the possible reasons I could think of

• German breeders like to learn from others and discuss all topics of breeding internationally
• They are looking for approval they do not get (any more) on national platforms because there are a lot of newbies which don`t appreciate their achievements and ask a lot of stupid questions
• The topics and discussions in national forums are less interesting or the quality of answers gets worse
• The Germans are in it for the money: they are mostly interested in doing business internationally; they want to sell and buy high grade or rare shrimp and see the forums as a market place
• The Germans think that nobody can do without them and like to share pictures of their shrimp and offspring over and over again (my house, my wife, my panda bee = shrimp as a status symbol