[Catfish]

Yes, i meant it geographically, but also socially.

The german population is a bit more than 82 million people.
Overall the amount of asylum seekers and people with "migration background" is around 25 percent in Germany, but a lot of them live here since 20+ years.
12 million people with german roots had to leave after WW2 and came to Germany as immigrants. So you say they do not count because their culture, belief etc. are the same as here. But that posed enough problems because of the sheer numbers, for accomodation and food alone shortly after the war, when all lay in rubbles. But we do not have housing or food problems now.

There are 16,000 applications from asylum seekers for january this year, do you really lose your identity and culture because of the last two years? And they are being accepted, because of Germany having signed the Geneva convention, which has not much to do with german law, nor the EU.

I certainly see your point, i also do not have much sympathy for e.g. Turkis Imams if they abuse their mosques for radicalising, or others demonstrating or spying for Erdoghan. But place them on the same list as e.g. Syrians?
"All foreigners, bad."


Regarding the comparison with Rome, the EU was and is never as united as the Romans, nor was or is it an Empire. Tribal bonds, if you want to get back to this we can instantly fall back into Bavarians, Suebes, Saxons, Chattes and so on. It was a process that made a nation out of tribes, and it will be another process to unite nations to something bigger. Do not forget traits and bias, but concentrate on the similarities.