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Xenophobia Is Rising In Germany

December, 2010

As remembered,in November 23 of 1992,five women had died as a result of Turkish family's house burning in Mölln.Again in Solingen,a sabotage event that occurred in 1993,killed five Turks.In addition,as a result of sabotages that launched in 2008,in ten different places there had been fire and nine citizens of Turkey Republic had lost their lives on February 3 in Ludwishafen.
While the Germans that rescued with wreckage from Second World War,are at the top of the world economy with the rapid development efforts in 1950s and 60s,somebody that assisted in this,today do not want to even remember.Whereas,the achievement of development for Germany's reconstruction that started with Italian and Yugoslav migrant workers had reached its peak with Turkish workers that went to Germany in 1960s.The young,hard-working Turks from villages of Anatolia had never seen our big cities as Istanbul,Ankara.They were taken to Germany and they significiantly contributed to the development of Germany in every field,particulary in mines and car factories.However,during the Cold War,Soviet thread that was for Europe and Central Europe was prevented by Turkey with serious contribution of the troop.This reason is forgotten by Germans and our entering the EU is prevented.In the same way,to this disloyal country,the contributions of workers that went to Germany in 1960s,seems to be forgotten.
Because the xenophobia is started in Germany seriously.While in the past,a limited number of Neo-Nazis carried out this draft,today the mind people who need to be serious in Germany have serious hostility signs and increasing sounds.
Thilo Sarrazin had negative comments about the Turks and Arabs in November 2009,that is the administrator of German Central Bank.Last month he submitted his views in those days as a book and this evoked negative and positive ways so much.Sarazzin,in his book '' Germany Has Destroyed Himself '',by targeting Muslims living in his country,he expressed the emerging of unemployed and even lower class like parasites that have lost its function in the country.Also criticized the social assistance system.In this context,Welfare State system gives 322 Euro to families for each child and therefore,the important migrant family has a child so much,so they connect to the long-term social assistance without working. Sarazzin included these in the book.Again in his book,Sarazzin expressed that the immigrants are related to the genetic characteristics of the ability of failure and integration and with these views,he moved as completely Nazi racist ideas.
However,the views of Sarazzin had responses from German circles and German Social Democratic Party he belonged to,these responses' inability and vadipity can be considered as the racist approach on the basis of German society. In addition to this approach,by obstacling to the harmonization of Muslims in Germany and showing the culture of Islam,it reveals Sarazzin's racism and the solid Christian approach. However,perhaps this primitive approachs of Sarazzin about the position and indispensability of immigrants in Germany,with the possibility of bringing the concrete reviews,that are developing in the process,may be even beneficial.Indeed,the German sociologist and researches that are little about the subject,have begun to express Sarazzin's inconsistencies.
According to these studies,the results show that Germany can't be the society without immigrants and to maintain the level of development,he will necessarily need the foreigners.Even though,German society is in such a general that they do not want more immigrants,Economy Minister Rainer Bruder,Employer Associations,the German Chamber of Industry and Trade and German Engineering Federation are in consensus on the need for the new immigrants.
But against this consensus,with the effect of who did not want an immigration,taking new immigrant workers was stopped in 1973 and coming to Germany was possible only with the family ties.This phenomenon had given the migration opportunity to the ones who could live as dependent,not to women and children.This had led to the prevention of qualified manufacturing power that Germany needed and would need soon in many fields.In fact,in 2000,the number of migrants was 10,130.With obstructive prevents,it dropped the number 1746 in 2005.Especially,the migration's number especially about the Turkey,reversed in 2008,10,147 people turned back to Turkey exactly and this reason is thought-provoking.
Unlike Canada and the United States,that are especially in economic development provide qualified brain drain but also provide cheap labor force with foreign immigrants sources,it is questioned that Germany with its aging population,how much longer it will resist to the competitive conditions of world. Moreover,this aging population will need people who will take care of them.
Especially in the future process,with the falling birth rates,Germany's population in 2050 will be reduced up to 12 million and this truth is important.
So,on the one hand,while there is a truth of Germany's population decreasing and the refusal to receive immigrants,it is interesting that the German society can not find the resort for their future with such a schizophrenic approach and with bad planning.
Germany that will not find enough young population to work,but the countries in a competition against to Germany like China,India and Brazil will be able to go on without deprieved of this source.
As a result of these findings,the truth is Germany needs more immigrants on the contrary to his current policy. In 2015,Germany will need three billion skilled workers.Moreover,Germany should not externalize the immigrants that will come,on the contrary,he should adopt the policy that will integrate as Canada and Australia did.Namely,he should make immigrants get used to there with the language and social skills training courses.The strategy to wait something from them should be an inevitable method.
There are some serious determinations about Sarazzin's book that filled with mistakes with the feeling he conditioned and visual disability.Because Sarazzin claimed that Turks and Arabs are the problem of integration.But this matter is incorrect.Today,more than 30 thousand Turks are employer and they have opened up new jobs to 250 thousand people that are part of German.The third generation Turks,at all levels of society,have been working as minister,deputy,academic,doctor,engineer.Turkish young people,in almost every brach of sport,have demonstrated the success,even played in national teams with Germans.The same thing goes for the German media and art life.Sarazzin did not want to see the contribution of Turks to the German economy in the past and present,with his racist approach.It is more clear that Sarazzin is sick of this racist approach because if there had not been foreigners,German budget would have a deficit and to hold the current level,every German would give € 100 more tax. The banker Sarazzin seemed like he did not know that.
It is obvious that Germans have to learn lessons from the past and give up these racist approaches to ensure their lifes high-level as today in the future. But Sarazzin with his divisive and racist approach,revealed his radical discourses and wishes by moving out the line of common life.In this regard,the claims are also important that are essential element of the German social life and nowadays democratic spectrum that has reached 20 percent of their digit numbers aimed the right audience.If these predictions are correct,we can say that the turbulent days are waiting Germany in the future.
While this is the case,as a result of developments and responses,with the pressures from public,Thilo Sarrazin's remaining obliged to resign from German Central Bank should be the matter to be questioned how it will annihilate the German's point of view of foreigners.Because and essentially,the publication of the book that Sarazzin wrote his opinions,it was supported by a wide audience in Germany.Even the predomination of racism arising again and who fear of that,will not be able to remove the truth of the audience' existence up to percent of twenties that may trigger the German policy. (September,2010)

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