Putzfimmel
The native female is usually unusually obsessed with keeping her home in perfect order. Perfect order is the polite way of putting it, really. They have a Putzfimmel, a need to clean. They are forever picking up (Aufräumen) and sanitizing (Putzen) and tend to go off the deep end and make the place inhabitable for normal human beings (men, for instance) and often go neurotic and never even realize it. I first assumed that this was just a generational thing, that only the older native women succumbed to it. Unfortunately, this is not the case. It is generational in that it is obviously being passed down from one generation to the next. In an even more disturbing development, reliable sources like Hermann and Will have informed me that up to ten to fifteen percent of the native male population also suffers from Putzfimmel, "Tendenz steigend", with the numbers rising. We can only hope that recent advances in medical treatment and behavioural engineering will eventually stem the tide of this eerie and threatening disorder.
