Yup, the Bundesamt changed their definition, so I didn’t have the latest numbers.
But here’s the number from 2 years earlier, with the old definition (only one parent included). That changes the number from 12% to… 13%.
“Dies entspricht etwa einem Drittel (36 %) aller Personen mit Migrationshintergrund und 13 % aller Wahlberechtigten. Eine Person hat nach der hier verwendeten Definition einen Migrationshintergrund, wenn sie selbst oder mindestens ein Elternteil nicht mit deutscher Staatsangehörigkeit geboren wurde.”
Not sure anything of what you’ve written was particularly polite rather than being aggressive and so utterly convinced that your opinion and AI was the gospel truth.
Newflash: “AI” is often wrong. Don’t rely on it, but refer to its sources and cross-check.
@Magnus has said nothing wrong. Your entire point in this entire thread has been based on nothing but your anecdotes and your feels rather than actual data.
As I have foreign roots (in a non-European country) and my skin is also brown, if the AfD were to become a governing party nationwide here in Germany, I wouldn’t be able to stay in Germany; I’d have to flee, otherwise they’d deport me to Sri Lanka. And I don’t want to live in Sri Lanka. I’ve never even been there on holiday once in my life. It takes at least 10 or 20 hours to fly there; it’s hotter there than on a summer’s day here in Germany; I’d fall ill from a mosquito bite there; and the standard of living there isn’t nearly as high as it is here in Germany. My values and my mindset are German/European.
If the AfD were to become a governing party, I’d emigrate to the Netherlands or to the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium (i.e. Flanders). For me, this isn’t about a shift to the right – that’s an international phenomenon (including, of course, the Netherlands and Belgium). My only concern is that the AfD harbours fantasies of deportation (“remigration” – what a dreadful word), and I do not want to be deported to Sri Lanka.
If things happened as you fear, there would be a major refugee crisis at all of Germany’s borders. It seems unlikely though, the sheer logistics and economic chaos involved would make such a policy unworkable. Of more immediate concern would be a rising, government sanctioned, hostility towards foreigners in general, and people with darker skin tones in particular. You have every reason to be concerned and I hope that it doesn’t go that far. We are in a bad situation right now all over the world.
It would not be possible for them to deport you, as you are not a Sri Lankan citizen (I assume, since you are born in Germany).
To deport you if you are German, but not Sri Lankan , they would first need to exit the EU and etc. This is not something that can happen in a single AfD term, even if they have majority (well in theory, but not in practice).
I think @Bekloppt is correct, the main danger is increasing hostility in society. But that can be horrible in itself, as well as eventually, dangerous. Bad times…
I spent the better part of 30 years trying to understand why where I was born was so backward and messed up. I so wanted to belong to the new world but I eventually realised that everywhere is the same and that I just don’t belong anywhere, and that’s ok.
I have had to temper the excitement of one person at the prospect of living and working visa-free in Europe that the EU process can take a very long time. CETA was agreed in 2016 (and that took a decade) and still hasn’t been ratified.
Admittedly might want to speed up processes a decade or so here and there.
But then it took Cologne 14 years to renovate a bloody opera house, stuff like that and the Deutsche Bahn changes your perspective of time.
For my part, I will be impressed when a nation/government that has not managed to build a natural gas pipeline to the East Coast or an oil pipeline to Ontario presents a credible plan to build either all the way to Europe.
I just want to warn everyone that I might be tempted to use the Canadian associate tag at every opportunity. “He’s an associate of mine”.
It’s the small things in life.
