Dan416
Senior Member
As long as the Turkish children in Germany are learning German in school and growing up speaking and are fluently bilingual, I would expect integration to go smoothly. But I'm not overly familiar with what's happening there.
I'm no expert, but I'll give my useless comment anyway... (I was just there last month, and had some interesting albeit superficial talks with my drivers, etc.) There seems to be a big anti-immigrant and specifically anti-Muslim backlash in Germany. There is such a backlash in North America too after the whole 9/11 incident and the wars, but the difference is it seems some politicians are more vocal about it there, and seem to get away with it. It's much less tolerated here. To put it another way, Ford compliments "Orientals" as hardworking, and the PC crowd here freaks out. In Germany, the Chancellor declares such integration a failure, and gets applause.As long as the Turkish children in Germany are learning German in school and growing up speaking and are fluently bilingual, I would expect integration to go smoothly. But I'm not overly familiar with what's happening there.
how do they actively exclude? other than religious laws, not challenging you.just a genuine question
As long as the Turkish children in Germany are learning German in school and growing up speaking and are fluently bilingual, I would expect integration to go smoothly. But I'm not overly familiar with what's happening there.
Can't say I checked every product, but for the common products, they were the same, and sometimes better quality in the Portuguese store.Were there products in the one, that weren't in the other? Was the signage in the Portuguese one in Chinese?
I can't say I feel the same way about it being easy to look through the stuff, when I walk into a Chinese grocery that doesn't have signs in English ...Mind you, considering it was a bulk food store, it was pretty easy just to look through the lid to see what the stuff was a lot of the time.
traveling the world, you quickly find out that the pressure to be "non-racist" is not the same everywhere.