https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSYeHunuC/ Ho visto questo video di adolescenti che sono chiaramente nati in Germania e ho visto un commento “Ma sono davvero tedeschi?” Poi la maggior parte delle risposte sono state “No”, “Sono immigrati”, “No vivono solo qui”. Sono solo molto sorpreso e un po’ confuso sul perché le persone nate, cresciute e ben integrate in Germania siano ancora “non tedesche”. Per tutti i figli di genitori immigrati qui, come è per te? Qual è la tua esperienza crescendo in Germania?
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I’m seen as a full blooded German, since my name doesn’t reflect on my other side and I also don’t have an accent or similar stuff. Sometimes it makes me sad that I have to remember and reinforce that I’m “only” part German, but sometimes when looking at how people of my heritage are being treated and called…
I’m probably going to be downvoted by the Germans here on this sub, but you’ll never be considered *truly* German. This is one of those things that made me so bitter that I left. You’ll be often confronted with “Aber woher kommst du *wirklich* an?” even after answering Germany. You’ll be treated as an Ausländer, will hear negative comments, will be discriminated for jobs, etc. (all the typical issues Ausländer face). How do I know? I’m one myself, and numerous friends and colleagues like me have faced this. I assumed things had changed for the better since my childhood, but after hearing my friends’ kids go through this same shit all over again, I know things aren’t better. Germany is not an immigrant friendly land, no matter what the government tries to sell abroad.
Of course. What did you think?
Foreigners’ kids will always be called “[insert ethnicity here]”, even if the land of their parents is just a story they heard when they were little.
And then, Germans wonder why integration fails spectacularly.
Personally, as a German, I always consider people with a German passport and speaking German as…. German!! 😁 what else would you be if youve lived all your life in Germany? 😁
I’m an Ausländer (American) and my wife is German. My kids are dual citizens and were born in the USA. My kids are considered German by their friends and peers. I’m the crazy American. Though, I must admit, I don’t do much to dispel that.
Came over as a child, no issues to speak of as an adult. Looking and sounding German definitely helps, though, as well as the social circles you grow up in, so the perspective or let’s say a German Turk might be more interesting.
The worst that happens now is older Germans speaking in a clearer, louder voice after learning where I was born.
For me personally it depends wether or not they can and are willing to speak german and how they behave. For me a the colleague who moved to germany recently and is doing his best to learn german and is respecting our culture qualifies more as a german than someone who lives in germany for 40 years but can’t communicate properly and only sticks to people that speak their native language or those kids who used “german” as an insult. Image being insulted as german in germany in the german language. Yeah, no, those kids were not german, not even if they never saw any other place their entire life
As a German? Yes.
Most people will accept you as a German on Paper (Deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit) but you simply won’t be an ethnic German. Thats why they ask where your roots are.
Most Europeans (not all!) define themselves by ethnicity. You have your parents ethnicity.