There is often something unintentionally funny about advice literature. Would you like an example? “Austrians aren’t cold. Austrians are just different. There are seven ways to make it easier for you to make friends with Austrians.” Anyone who carefully reads the pragmatic advice on the website “I am refugee” will recognize its usefulness: working in clubs, making a kind gesture to neighbors or chatting about common hobbies – all of this can help you find new friends. The calculation of the site’s developers: This also applies to refugees who want to make friends with natives from Austria who are considered closed. The only difficulty: We Austrians actually often behave “simply differently”.
