{"id":3667,"date":"2014-04-29T19:31:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T23:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2015-01-14T10:23:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T15:23:25","slug":"multiculturalism-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2014\/04\/29\/multiculturalism-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiculturalism in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

3 Points<\/strong>\u00a0–<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 – Thilo Sarrazin, a member of the Bundesbank’s board, proclaimed that because of\u00a0the country’s shrinking population, immigrants and the underclass are having too many children, and the well-educated native Germans too few. He argued that Biologically, culturally and professionally Germany is dumbing down.<\/p>\n

2 –\u00a0Germany isn’t doing enough\u00a0to bring immigrants into the social and economic mainstream.<\/p>\n

3 – For\u00a0several decades Germany expected workers from Turkey and elsewhere to leave like polite guests. It then had the idea of\u00a0multi-kulti –\u00a0<\/em>that they could live in Germany without fully belonging to it. Recently Germans, or at least the political class, had begun to accept that Germany is an \u201cimmigration country\u201d with a responsibility to integrate immigrants fully into national life.<\/p>\n

2 Questions?<\/strong><\/p>\n

How should Germany proceed with\u00a0multi-kulti<\/em>?<\/p>\n

How did Sarrazin come to this conclusion as an economist, when there is evidence that the German economy is doing very well?<\/p>\n

1 Point –\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Germany’s economy is doing very well currently, and\u00a0German businesses longs for more immigration as long as the new immigrants have useful skills. The government is working on a law that would make it easier for the hundreds of thousands of immigrants in Germany with professional qualifications to have them recognised so that they can contribute more to the economy and complete meaningful jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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