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I dunno man, people are complaining about not being able to secure a vocational training position, especially as a foreigner. Maybe a bit of diversity and equal
by oytis 5mo ago
I dunno man, people are complaining about not being able to secure a vocational training position, especially as a foreigner. Maybe a bit of diversity and equality could help
- slaw 5mo agoMigrants to Germany account for 30.2% of the total population. Is Germany not enough diverse for you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Germany
- oytis 5mo agoYes, sorry, there is a lot of diversity of course, especially on the lower level. It's rather equality and inclusion that need improving. It's an anecdotal evidence, but while looking for a job I liked looking up employees on linkedin, then looking up the leadership on company's website. First one would always be much more diverse than the second one
- slaw 5mo agoYou didn't notice older people are Germans and younger migrants?
- scihuber 5mo agoThe Germans themselves chose not to have children.
- AdrianB1 5mo agoI think they were pushed not to have children, if that matters. Pushed via economical measures that made it very hard and pushed via education/indoctrination that kids are bad in multiple ways. My grandparents had many brothers and sisters each and life was harder back then, but it was easier to raise a large family than today. What changed? Taxes, with direct and indirect effects.
- oytis 5mo ago> What changed? Contraception. Children weren't optional back then, they just happened naturally.
- dgellow 5mo agoWait until you learn you can be German and not look like the Bavarian stereotypes
- dgellow 5mo agoFrom your own link 30% is the widest definition possible: > As of 2024, around 17.4 million people living in Germany, or 20.9% of the population, are first-generation immigrants, while the population with a migrant background in the wider sense stood at approximately 25.2 million, accounting for 30.2% of the total population of 83.5 million Thats a very misleading statistic
- oytis 5mo ago"Migrant background" is really broad indeed, it takes just one parent who wasn't born with a German parent to be considered as having a "background". Also most of them are EU migrants
- oytis 5mo agowho wasn't born with a German passport, sorry. So in worst case one immigrant grandparent is enough
- slaw 5mo agoWhat exactly is misleading to you?
- nephihaha 5mo agoA friend of mine went to Berlin to learn German. She's Spanish of Moroccan Berber origin... She said she encountered barely any native speakers, and many people tried to speak English to her instead. She ended up quitting as a result. I was in part of suburban Frankfurt am Main and had a similar experience. So depending on where you are, there is plenty of diversity. Like most larger European cities, Frankfurt and Berlin now lack sense of place while having a sense of anomie.
- oytis 5mo ago> she encountered barely any native speakers, and many people tried to speak English to her instead Germans often switch to English when they hear an accent or hesitation
- dgellow 5mo agoI can confirm, that does make it pretty hard to learn if you’re in a large city where people generally speak fluent English
- nephihaha 5mo agoAs I say above, I've used various tricks. Pretending to be Finnish. Putting on a very strong Scottish accent when they speak English to me. All that kind of thing.