«Before God, all people are actually Berliners.»–Theodor
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An ‹Ur-Berliner› is someone who was born in Berlin. Ideally, their parents were also Berliners—and their grandparents too. Even better if you can trace your ancestors back to a local mammoth hunter clad in a bearskin. Back when Berlin actually belonged to the Berliners, and people knew their neighbors. Of course, the place wasn’t yet called Berlin.
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