#german immigrants

[eopederson]

Iglesia de madera, Puerto Varas, Chile, 2022.

The areas around Puerto Varas were settled by immigrants from what is now Germany, and this church, like many of the buildings in the town, is in a style more like that of Germany than of Latin America. Wood was abundant locally, and thus this church, like most houses and many other buildings, was constructed of wood.

[dijidweeeb]

My Great Grandpa Fred (1959)

Bilingual (English & German)

1st Born American from German Immigrants.

Traverse City Michigan

Worked for The Traverse City Record Eagle (1949-1977)

[the-light-of-stars]

German ministry of defence considers 'fixing' the shortage in military personnel by tying military service to getting german citizenship more quickly for immigrants without a german passport

"To fix the personnel shortage in the federal army Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius can imagine to also hire soldiers without a german passport. He's getting support for this suggestion both from defence politicians of the government coalition as well as from the opposition.

"Basically we need to think far more european when looking for able young people that are ready to serve in the federal army" the president of the defence committee in parliament, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP) told the "Rheinische Post".

This also includes the idea "that soldiers without a german passport can get one faster by successfully serving in the german federal army."

yeah this is definitely not gonna lead to immigrants being used as cannon fodder at all, certainly.

[africanrefugeeswelcome]

Germany🇩🇪 + Tanzania🇹🇿

[mchiti]

today on the football racist agenda we have tony kroos saying he doesn't feel comfortable letting his daughter go out in Germany because it's not the country it was 10 years ago and there are too many migrants. in the very same days where players from the french national team are going through a shitstorm for advocating against the alt right. Right after Germany nt started the tournament with a beautiful letter form Gundogan expressing his pride of being the first german captain with a migrant background. Weeks after both Nagelsmann and Kimmich had to stood up and called a "survey" asking germans if they wanted more whites in the nt ugly and racist.

okay fucker, thank you for the contribution.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Three of the German brides of doughboys of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), with their Yankee babies, arriving in New York on the transport Sherman to make their homes in the U.S., September 11, 1920. Left to right: Mrs. Z. Sanlick; Mrs. A.J. Dininger, and Mrs. F.M. Christnacht.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[tanadrin]

Der Spiegel has an article talking about whether the AfD should be banned outright, and it's like... I don't think you can ban a party that is currently polling at almost a quarter of the electorate for extremism, and pretend that you can just keep conducting politics as normal after that! They have like a third of the seats in the Saxon Landtag! Purely aside from the civil libertarian concerns (which are grave), your political leadership has clearly failed on a massive scale if your only response to that kind of reactionary wave in your politics is to ban the bad guys, and then pretend like mainstream politics is fine and nothing needs to change.

(And no, the answer is not, as Scholz and others seem to believe, to try to outflank them by becoming similarly reactionary on key issues like immigration. There are in fact options besides "ban the reactionaries" and "become the reactionaries"! But those other options might require confronting why the biggest parties in German politics are so sclerotic, and why people are so dissatisfied with them in the first place.)

[meraarts]

One advantage of having native English speaker friends is that they think being bilingual is super impressive. Mention you’re busy learning your *gasp* third language and they go wild

[dkettchen]

Brennan: in the mountains of Luxembourg

me, from Luxembourg: *gets jumpscared*

me: mf we ain't got mountains in Luxembourg

[itsbansheebitch]

My therapist SUCKS. I REALLY need a new one ASAP.

my family still feels the trauma from immigrating to America and she wants to "both sides" a genocide. The absolute disrespect is ridiculous. My family has rotted to its core because of fascism.

I'm not going to be anyone's punching bag. Either you be honest about how bad things are right now or you perpetuated toxic positivity culture and act like I'm fucking stupid.

My therapist ALWAYS has room for "have you tried spending less time online?" as if the problems I see online aren't IN THE REAL WORLD. Not to mention, online I at least have community with people who are also going through a rough time.

People irl will just act like you're stupid and say that everything is fine.

You don't get to "both sides" a genocide.

I need a therapist who isn't a monster.

[crtter]

BEFORE anyone makes fun of me for not knowing blonde people existed before 1st grade, most white Brazilians alive today (including me) are directly descended from Portuguese, Italian or Spanish immigrants that emigrated here in the 19th century to work as cheap laborers after slavery was abolished. None of these countries are known for the Nordic blonde phenotype! It’s perfectly reasonable for a 7 year old to think any shade of blonde lighter than caramel is just a fun color people like to dye their hair with like blue or green.

[5eyed]

yayo! (real name: yolanda). shes xeress crush. i want to give her some tattoos or piercings but i couldnt think of good ones yet..

[marianomoreno]

the history of immigration in buenos aires is so goddamn interesting the early 20th century must've been such a strange moment to live in this city. over 50% of the population was immigrant, and from all over. and they both took from the local culture and added to it. my grandma (armenian but born here in the 30s) developed a taste for tango from her neighbours who were second generation english (older immigration). my dad grew up in the 60s with a galician-uruguayan mother and a canarian grandpa, next to a huge italian family and an armenian family who raised goats, and spent his childhood playing on the streets with the children of spaniards, italians, poles, irishmen. in the last thirty or so years my neighbourhood has become mostly a bolivian and peruvian neighbourhood but nowadays there's a lot of venezuelans and colombians, some senegalese people. you keep hearing people speak russian and ukranian on the streets. now. anyways, fascinating.

[cosmogyros]

It's fucking weird how rude people are about immigration sometimes. And I don't just mean bigots being biased and stuff. I mean that, on a REGULAR basis, people ask me if I'm thinking about "going back to the US". And I'm just like... no? What do you mean "back to the US"? I live in Germany. I LIVE IN GERMANY.

I literally fucking started learning German and obsessing on German culture in high school, then I went to college in the US and majored in German Studies, including two study-abroad programs in Germany, then I moved to Germany for grad school and lived there for three years and worked in various German-speaking jobs while studying, then I had to temporarily return to the US but found a German-translation-based job at the US branch of a German company, and made a bunch of German or at least German-speaking friends in my new US city, and then a few years later I was able to move back to Germany, where I got a work visa sponsored by my employer and a full-time salaried job, and after a few more years I acquired my permanent residency, and soon I'll be applying for citizenship.

And people still sometimes ask me whether I'm considering "going back to the US". Like... dude? Would you ask a Mexican living in the US about their plans for "going back to Mexico"? That is rude as fuck.

Immigration is fucking hard. Why on earth would I have gone through all this shit just to throw it up in the air like "Oh well, never mind!"

[africanrefugeeswelcome]

African club in Germany