Germans becoming a minority in their homeland
Hamburg best exemplifies the dramatic effects of the demographic changes taking place in Germany. In one district the proportion of residents with a migration background is almost ninety per cent, which clearly shows the scale and consequences of mass immigration.
Hamburg is perhaps the best example of the rapid demographic transformation taking place in Germany, both because of the size of the city and the radical pace of mass immigration. Now, Dirk Nockemann, parliamentary group leader of Hamburg’s Alternative for Germany (AfD), warns that the city is illustrating that Germans are becoming a minority in their own country.
„Numbers don’t lie: Germans are becoming a minority in their homeland, and in some parts, Germans are the new minority. This is not a wild conspiracy theory, but pure statistics,”
said Nockemann.
The AfD politician made the statement to comment on a report published by the state statistics office on Tuesday. The figures show that 40.4 per cent (790,000 people) in Hamburg have a migration background. Out of these, 20.7 per cent are foreigners without German citizenship. Billbrook district has the highest proportion of foreigners, with 88.1 per cent of the residents having a migrant background. In other words, almost no German nationals live in this district. Nockemann said that the consequences of the mass influx of immigrants into Hamburg are „unmistakable: exploding social spending and rising violent crime”.
The trends are more dramatic when the data for young people are analysed. In Billbrook, 98.2 per cent of under-18s come with a migrant background, compared to 57 per cent in Hamburg as a whole. Remarkably, more than half of the pupils in schools are now foreigners. Language barriers and cultural differences have caused a real shock in German classrooms across the country, sometimes leading to violence and dangerous conditions, but most often simply to poor academic performance.
Education collapsing
German society is facing serious consequences, with the education crisis deepening year after year, as shown by various international surveys and benchmarks.
„Every year, 50 thousand young people drop out of school without qualifications. Our society cannot afford this. It is also a financial factor, regardless of what it means for the young people themselves. They don’t have the opportunity to engage in a vocation, which leads to abject poverty and hopelessness,”
72-year-old teacher Andrea Pohlmann-Jochheim, vice-president of the action group Mentor – Die Leselernhelfer told Die Welt. As is known, one out of four children in Germany do not learn to read properly by the end of primary school, she added.
The teacher pointed to a number of reasons:
„Our school system is overwhelmed. In addition, many urban districts are highly heterogeneous. In primary schools, it is very difficult for teachers to handle different levels of language skills and knowledge. In fact, personalized learning is needed to support each child. But teachers are no longer able to do this.”
More than a third of children aged between one and eight are not read to regularly. This means that they are not getting help with their language skills development. Reading aloud is essential for vocabulary development and learning grammatical structures.
Another reason is the surge in migration. „We have still not been able to provide early language learning for all those who need it. If students come from an immigrant background, we cannot assume that they have learned German immediately upon arrival in Germany,” said Doris Lewalter, an educational researcher at the Technical University of Munich. What is forbidden to say in Germany, however, is that the vast majority of children from migrant families do not even want to learn the German language.
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