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What is more disturbing is that the new immigrants have, as a whole, more children. Nearly 33% of all children in Hessen have at least one parent who is a second or first generation immigrant.
This means that the new immigrants’ children are becoming more numerous, but at the same time are not able to fill the roles in society requiring advanced education because the schools, educational system, and society are failing them.
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WORK ON INTEGRATION NOW, GERMANY!
I believe the German civil service and various bureaucracies need to pull out all stops to better integrate foreigners before trying to replace them with more jobs from abroad.
The traditional German family is hardly aware of the troubles that new immigrants are facing but German government officials and think-tanks need to do better.
In short, (1) failures in integration practices, and (2) many German’s personal feelings of being uncomfortable in society, or (3) a growing feeling that one is under-appreciated in society appear to me to be the real problems leading to ever-more emigrating Germans.
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This understanding includes native born Germans as well as immigrant Germans deciding to leave Germany to try their luck elsewhere.
To date, Germans have simply shrugged their shoulders and have assumed that new immigrants who have decided to move on to America, Britain or Canada had always had those lands in view or in their dreams.
However, this is shrugging-of-the-shoulders approach to the situation shows no insight (no analysis) into what conditions in Germany are which cause both native born émigrés and new immigrant German émigrés.
Could they have common issues with the failure of German bureaucrats and educators to improve overall quality of life at a rate commensurate with the demographic needs of balance in population over many decades?.
One of the problems new German youth face in school certainly includes the 3-tiered school system—which is still preferred and practices in most regions of Germany.
This system may have worked well in the past when Germany was playing catch-up in development on the world stage, but it is not doing well except in building elite families and classes of people with others being treated as outsiders—based on how far along they make it in the 3-tiered school project. (Germany doesn’t even allow home schooling as an alternative or temporary support for troubled youth.)
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In the meantime, universities are not student-friendly in terms of providing timely courses and competent instructors. Many people who have struggled through the 3-tiered school system are not even welcomed into the university system of some German states at all. (Worse, many universities are still under-budgeted and over bureaucratized.)
Thinking outside of the box in terms of schooling and integration is needed if Germany is not to face a demographic disaster within the next few decades.
David Smith notes, “Germany is facing the biggest decline in population, certainly in Europe. Germany’s ageing population interacts worryingly with its generous state pensions system, implying a rising fiscal burden in the future.”
