The actress Désirée Nosbusch (55) had to experience xenophobia due to her Italian mother. The "Bad Banks" star said in an interview with the "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung" during her school days in Luxembourg. "I had to listen to sayings like 'We give our pigs what you eat at home," says Nosbusch. This meant polenta, a porridge made from corn grits that is traditionally eaten in northern Italy.
In addition, she was also hostile because of her clothes, for example, she had no jeans. However, her mother sewed blue trousers for her herself: "At school it was said: 'Oh look, what did you pull out of the rags chamber again?'" But these actions only led to her becoming even more proud of her origins , "My mother always said: 'Good manners are important in life,'" adds Nosbusch.