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'Learn the language,' Turkish minister tells countrymen in Germany
Published: 12 Oct 10 08:40 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20101012-30425.html
As the immigration debate grows increasingly heated in Germany, Turkey's minister for EU affairs Egemen Bagis on Tuesday urged his countrymen living there to increase their efforts at integration.
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Bagis also encouraged his fellow Turks, who make up Germany’s largest group of immigrants, numbering an estimated 3.5 million, to obey German laws.
Because if “Ali or Achmed does something bad, people won’t go looking for names,” he said. Instead they will say: “It was the Turk!”
The Turkish government stands behind integration in Germany just as it does for the integration of Turkey itself into the European Union, Bagis told Bild.
“You must not give up the gift of your identity and your culture, but instead see yourselves as an ambassador of Turkey,” he added.
Bagis’ remarks came after the Turkish Community in Germany (TGD) had demanded an apology on Monday from conservative Bavarian premier Horst Seehofer for suggesting the country stop allowing Turks and Arabs to immigrate.
Over the weekend Seehofer had said the two groups had too much trouble integrating into German culture.
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With that in mind, I agree that those who emigrate to Germany should do everything in their power to adapt to the laws, customs and mores of their adopted home, while still retaining their cultural pride. That is the essence of assimilation. It is not a license to do what the European immigrants did in America; namely to eradicate the existing cultures and replace them with their own.
As you observed, the German situation, especially with regard to the Turkish community, is different. Hopefully there is a middle ground, where Germans can become more accepting while immigrants "work harder" on becoming fuller members of German society. There is a lot of good in this conversation if both sides can get past the name-calling and stereotyping.
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