Immigration/Integration in Germany

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Germany in many way has a similar situation to America.
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The educational level among native Germans is high, so the birth rate is very low. Immigrants who work and pay social security taxes are needed to help pay for the unfunded benefits of the ageing Germans.
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Native Germans don't want to the do the nasty, dirty, low paying work so foreign immigrants are needed in order to perform those jobs.
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Sound similar Americans? The German situation is like ours in more ways. A great many of their immigrants (rather than Mexicans the Germans primarily have immigrants from Turkey) have not learned the primary language of their new country, and they are living in squalid ghettos surrounded by other Turks.
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This is a quote from a newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany:
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Integrating into Germany's political system also means respecting the will of the democratic majority as shown in elections and parliament. ... Some foreigners come here in order to maintain a self-centered and self-sufficient way of life under more generous circumstances than in their homeland -- in other words, to live with their own kind in ghettos and parallel societies. ... "
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"The government must be honest to itself and to its citizens and admit that there are foreigners who are willing to integrate and there are foreigners who do not want to integrate. The government can grant the first group a measure of trust as well as considerable sums of money for integration courses and other assistance. To the others however, in particular to those who substantiate their refusal to integrate on an organizational basis, the government must send a clear signal. Because Germany is not a country of immigration, but a country of integration."
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That is an interesting phrase: Germany is a country of integration not a country of immigration. I've got to give that some thought.
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