Re: Thilo Sarrazin : anger as ex-finance minister warns Muslims ‘making Germany stupi
Germany still has a concept of 'ethnic' nationalism, it's backwards and potentially dangerous, but there have been some improvements in recent years, just look at their World Cup squad! Also, Germany doesn't allow duel-citizenship, thats forces children of immigrants to choose either the country of their parents, or the country of their birth.
It is not only a problem in Germany and having dual citizenship ability or not is in my opinion irrelevant. It is nothing but an excuse, and frankly also a danger in my opinion.. national security.. where are you true loyalties? We have seen it with American-X (random nation) spying for said X nation.
We are talking about 2nd and 3rd and 4th generation Turks who almost all were born and raised in Germany who would rather be a citizen of an alien country (to them) than the country of their birth. That is frankly shocking and it does not only happen in Germany, but in many places Turks have settled in Europe. Question is why.
The host country is of course guilty some what, no doubt about that. Lack of consistent integration policies and too open immigration policies and social polices have contributed to the alienation of Turks. But in my opinion the majority of the blame lays with the first generation Turks, aka the parents and grand parents. Their pressure to keep their "roots" over their now adopted country, has lead to so many conflicts for these young people that it is no wonder many are involved in crime, violence and worse.
What the ironic thing is... is that these very same Turks when busted for crimes or suddenly getting called up for national service in Turkey (which is mandatory), all of a sudden have a change of heart...
For example, about a decade ago a Turk in Copenhagen, born in Denmark, only been back to Turkey 2 times, got a choice at 18 (like everyone with two nationalities) to become a Danish citizen or not. He then got arrested for assaulting an old lady and stealing from her (not his only crime in his short life btw). The Judge correctly convicted him for prison time as an adult, but also according to the law foreign nationals convicted of a crime are to be expelled. Suddenly the Turk in question wanted to be a Dane, and got his deportation stopped because of it. Ironic no? And it is not the only example of this sudden urge to become citizen of your host country once you have exploited said country with crimes and the social system.
Ironically, it is for the most part only Turks that have all these problems, at least in Denmark.