zarathustra

I ´ll be there - sounds great.

Let me add 2 more: National Socialism - bad idea. Hoods with ears - bad idea.

Ever since I read Nietzsche I kind of like his way of writing and enjoy the architecture of his concepts - especially the book "thus spook Zarathustra" I don ´t share all of his thoughts - so I don ´t want to bring german nihilism nor am I a preacher of Zoroastrianism, sorry for that Anyone interested in details: thus spoke Zarathustra

Well - there is one question to add the statement of merkel does bring up - and - in my opinion this is the key to the problem: is Germany a country having immigration?.. Many germans do think: nope - it isn´t. What in fact is wrong... But the the discourse about immigration is rather new to Germany - it was mentioned above that there are for example turkish people living in Germany - many of them where invited during the "wirtschaftswunder" in the 60/70ies - and not understood as immigrants to be integrated but as guests who come to work a few years and return. So - when they were invited to come to Germany nothing was prepared for a longer stay than a few years - neither an immigration process nor the public perception of integrating those people - also those who came to work did not expect to stay forever - so they did not force integration by themselfs - for example by learning german, spending time off with german collegues a.s.o... because it was not necessary for a limited stay.. So - right now on the one hand there is no framework set up to handle immigration (like in US or Canada) - which would be very helpful for german culture as well as economy - on the other hand germans have to be aware of taking advantage of immigration, as the immigration was negotiated in the past - these two very important points are to be tackled asap... I am far from beeing an advocate for merkel - but there is one more thing to add to get a differentiated picture of what is understood with "multi-cultural" in germany: in the 70/80 there was a first discussion about how the different influences people immigrating to germany bring with them are making germany manifold(?) - but there was no strategy to integrate people - but only the step ahead: people said: look they are different - it is nice to have different people around. What is missing there is of course: how can we build one society out of those different groups of people... what wasn ´t discussed to the end with this approach of "multi-culture" that was brought up in the 80ies... therefore this picture of having different cultures as separeted islands building one country has failed - that is my understanding of this headerline Sorry for my bad englisch Also sprach Zarathustra