Comments on: German banker bows out after stirring race, religion debate http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2010/09/10/german-banker-bows-out-after-stirring-race-religion-debate/ Beyond the World news headlines Mon, 20 May 2013 08:47:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: 2pesos http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2010/09/10/german-banker-bows-out-after-stirring-race-religion-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-20322 2pesos Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:09:55 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/global/?p=9726#comment-20322 I don't think very many people in Germany have anything against the hard working Turkish immigrant of the sixties that tried to the best of his abilities to learn German and fit in. In Germany, just as in the US, the immigrants who don't, or can't integrate into the mainstream society are a problem. As the Germans say, "what if we would go to their Muslim countries and insist that we can drink beer, and lie on the beach in bikinis? Where would the equality be then?" I don’t think very many people in Germany have anything against the hard working Turkish immigrant of the sixties that tried to the best of his abilities to learn German and fit in.

In Germany, just as in the US, the immigrants who don’t, or can’t integrate into the mainstream society are a problem.
As the Germans say, “what if we would go to their Muslim countries and insist that we can drink beer, and lie on the beach in bikinis? Where would the equality be then?”

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