The New Germans
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The Second session of the German Conference on Islam concluded with a controversial balance. No concrete results, but an undoubted symbolic success. It's some time now that Germany has quit considering immigrants as simple Gastarbeiter, guest workers. New Germans of Turkish origins are in the Bundestag or at the top of major political parties, and they often play the main characters in German movies and TV fictional stories. Surely some problems remain if one Turkish-German out of two still searches for his wife abroad, and if every generation is still a first-generation - as the NYT Magazine wrote. But the new course has started and Germany shows to be seriously taking into account the challenge of integration.
19 Jun 2007
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