My uncle was an engineer(under general Patton) with the US Army corp of engineers who essentially rebuilt Germany following WW 2 (Marshall Plan). The Germans should be thankful they even exist after the atrocities they committed during WW 2. If anything they should be embracing foreigners particularly Easterners and there is absolutely no room for fascist sentiments in that country (or any other for that matter). My bigger question is why should poor countries (like Greece) be burdened with an influx of immigrants from war torn countries (like Syria) and Germany behave like a spoiled privileged child.
I'm by no means in favor of unrestricted, undocumented immigration by low skilled people to industrialized, technologically based countries where these people will have difficulty supporting themselves, whether it's the U.S. or Europe.
My parents (and I) had to have medical tests, they were checked for undesirable political associations, my father had to prove we would be supported by family members until he could find work or he had to have a certain amount of money, had marketable skills which were in demand, and on and on.
That's all well and fine.
However, in the case of Germany, France, Belgium, etc., decades ago they permitted migration by these kinds of migrants because at the time they needed them. Now they don't.
In the interim children were born who speak only German or French properly, who know life only in Europe, who have married Germans and had children with them.
What did these countries think would happen? People are people, propinquity is a powerful thing.
The article is addressing the problems of a particular population: children of mixed ancestry (Turkish and German), born and educated in Germany who want to be German, considered themselves or want to consider themselves German, but are taunted, harassed, and in some cases in fear of their lives. Mixed couples are increasingly facing the same kind of treatment. A woman can't go into a restaurant or nightclub because her husband has black hair?
It's like Jim Crow in the American south.
How could some of you think this is acceptable???
They chose to let them in, but now they don't like it. What are they going to do, have another Kristallnacht? Pogroms in the street, against Turks this time, not Jews? Maybe round them up in internment camps again?
The more things change, the more things stay the same beneath the surface.
Italy and Greece are the countries who have the most undocumented immigrants by FAR, often because these people are drowning as their barely sea worthy boats sink, and they don't let them drown. They have far fewer resources than the Germans to deal with it also, but the other Union countries don't give a damn and don't want it to be their problem. Just what the hell was the European Union supposed to be about again?
As for the Gypsies, maybe the second try will work? Is that it?
Some immigrants, or low skilled natives for that matter, turn to crime. It's true of a lot of nationalities, right Tutkun??? So, I don't see how it makes sense to throw stones at Turks because some of their people do it.
