Germans wrestle with multicultural identity

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

Solution: its incompatibility with Western traditions.

I stress this, incompatibility.

Originally Posted by Skybird

That should be a solution...? What comes in the wake of this? German anthem sung in Turkish? German Turks voting in Turkey? Turkish autonomy zones in German cities?

Far from it, quiete the opposite actually

And to define German-ness by the looks of the blue-eyed blond Siegfried-kind of guy, does not make sense.

Of course it doesn't, just a stereotypical, narrow-minded viewpoint.

What "German" means, touches upon things like historic identity, cultural background, value system, the basis one's philosophical thinking is founded upon, recognizing the influence of the Christian-Judaic tradition, an identity that preferes certain art styles over others. You cannot build a cluster of traditional Japanese wood-and-paper houses in Bavaria and then say that that would be "typical German".

Agreed!

The country has little need of unskilled labor illiterate in German, although it is facing a labor shortage for highly qualified positions. The German economy is doing far better than the rest of Europe due to niches in machine tools, construction equipment, and other high-quality capital goods; every factory in China runs on German machine tools. Unlike the 1960s, unskilled immigrants are now more of a burden than a blessing to German industry.
The facts the global press failed to mention, however, include the fact that an important motivation for the Chancellor's remarks lies in Germany's profound disillusionment at the radical Islamist tendencies in Turkey's government, led by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, and Germany's alarm at Turkey's drift towards Islamism.