passports means to people from different backgrounds. there's always more names on our website for the w. com. and for now youtube and social media techs on watching the, by the way, it's got some hot tips for your package. this romantic calling to check on some great cultural memorials to boot w travel regarding this shadow of german color. these costs and video shed lights on the dog is devastating. colonial har is infected by germany across and he employed the schools farms and destroyed lights. what is the legacy of this wide spread races, depression, today?

history. we need to talk about here, the stories, shadows of german colonialism, the a living in safety and freedom. exploring your identity, or reconnecting with family history or just german citizenship main. so people with different backgrounds today, the main part of the thing in germany, even though i can have a say stuff with inside sales was impossible, low was about to pass fools. it was also about having to choose an identity that felt like a, uh, something positive had come out. so it was so terrible history. the

a melissa kind of coach sales at home in belin, born in germany, to talk his parents. she grew up with 2 languages and 2 coaches but when it came to citizenship as a teenager, she was faced with a choice and more customer here. my mom came to me and asked, so what do you want to be german altercation? and then it took a little while to figure out what to do. is this my, how much the as a child, melissa had tucker citizenship. later she chose to apply for a german passport instead, rose at the time when she could only have one of the alpha. then inside and having to choose between 2 identities. the coaches were just talking about a pulse for what it was moved. and that's of course, that stuff. it's not a nice feeling that well, no, but for me it was clear quite quickly for ms. ross and yes,

i've 6 next law if you would, jim and or if you was seen as jim and it was an advantage, i thought it was like, the more you fish in the best. so you off when you man to high and past as the best . this to me today that's changed. minister says she's parts of a generation now embracing that mixed identities and creating space for thoughts in german society. she runs a design agency focused on issues around diversity. it's name rank means color and tuck. yes. and she publishes a magazine exploring jasmine tech is culture for me. i created this image for myself, where i'm not sitting between 2 chairs off and put on a bench. i can slide around on the desk and i think that mindset has something that's missing also in campaigns on websites, in so many things. so the business really came out of a need is this lucas also and participants have all of them started in germany

today? well, most of sad if the population have what's known as the migration background, meaning they, or at least one of the parents was born without them and citizenship. the arrival of guesswork is in the mid 19 fifties march, the beginnings that the more types of society, the majority were from talking to came under a scheme for temporary workers to help each labor shortages most for tons the many states and brought that families to join them now people with tax rates make up germany's largest minority, great. many could benefit from the recent over or below a thing, the positive gentleman, citizenship. the change will also make dual citizenship possible for many more people. previously, it was an exception. like for those from the people like melissa who once had to choose between 2 nationalities and will now be able to have both for the credit. it's big news by community and she wants to share it with ranks, follow as fast as i have spent in donald. okay. hold on up as the cop when

preparing a social media post, rout instagram page. that is what we want to let people know about this new law. and then the post is also about identity and what a passport can mean to people are supposed to pass for on the board. and also does the new law allowing dual citizenship as long as the jew melissa says to the mindset used to be okay, you have to make a decision so that you can integrate better and choose to be one thing over the years. i think that was absolutely the wrong strategy. it can only ever be an advantage to have another aspect, another culture, another passport, or another language class. can ma configure, that's the reality and melissa's bell in may. go ahead and take it. she says we should come into the supermarket and we're talking about in the end of culture because what she hopes for gemini future. as principal, i really want this to be something we can take for granted that we live alongside each other, many different cultures. we're living here together, that that's

a good statement that, that's not seen as a struggle or a conflict, but as an asset. so i assume you buy some assets for german society as well as its economy. the country needs more immigration and is desperately trying to attract skilled labor from abroad and more and more people and making gemini, that long time home. in 2022, the number of people granted german citizenship had to 20 high move in a culture of them was serious. many arrived here in 2015 off the civil war broke outs, and that homeland one of them went to catch up for almost 10 years after arriving in germany as a refugee. he's now jem and such as in hub. to find all of this, i work so hard to do everything you can do in germany, alice to my who is my level, kind of nice on on kind of, i'm in the stores and getting the german passports at the end of it feels like i

finally made a tear and shaft of lots of design once a flat board in syria age 21 along with his older brother. he's supposed to live here in belen land, german and started taking piano. but he hasn't seen the rest of his family for 10 years. my close pile of home is cause they can come to your on us and i couldn't travel anywhere else either. then as you just couldn't do it, unfortunately on that's being. that's one of them that the item does us. but now as like german passport makes it possible to kind of best buy in, but until nothing that's a lot to know, i just didn't have the option. so that's why it's really important to have it. me grover's taste as much of a full time product design as months that it will affect family and budget and file install top saying he launched his 1st stop shop just a year off to coming to gemini, an app,

to help all the refugees navigate the countries notorious bureaucracy. now that's part of his current venture. a platform supporting fellow migrant entrepreneurs is close to us. the noise in the i really believe that you commerce in germany have a different and unique perspective on the country and its structures as a verification of us on knowing the question of i can look at germany with fresh eyes and say this. so that's not working, and yesterday's desk when we could improve on this and itself, this doesn't, but it's also the job and the responsibility of the german site to accept that accept kansas. i'm to allow people migrants to try out their ideas on the law. i think even tell them sort of going to allow me of eden and so on. so making society pass and that's important to him. and his new citizenship also means he now has the right to vote. can serious months have felt politics had nothing to

offer him here. he wants to make his voice count the entire 1st part of living and working in germany. as i can take part, i can have a say stop permit inside. he's already had his 1st opportunity and a local election of the city hope warm tells nick, talk the what i'm looking forward to the next one, the federal election next year. on the i'll actually be able to read the campaign posters. the parties put up around the city as a minute, they'll have a new meaning for me, cause some of the cost on david's about tying these. i can read them knowing it's also relevant to me on this and other part of it. but of the best years on the fifty's off months assess, he'll always have his theory and identity. but german citizenship means a sense of belonging here to are in a democracy like germany,

citizenship means rights, freedom protection, as well as responsibilities. those to become naturalized citizens who you have to declare and saying no respect and not pulse. gemini, basic little or constitution 50 a month, 75 years since it was adopted. and what was done west germany in may 1949. it's still the basis for unified germany today. off to the 2nd level, the basic law was designed to prevent the atrocities of the nazi period from ever happening again. the nazi strips, juice, and other minorities are set right to full citizenship during the holocaust they and that collaborate is mad at $6000000.00. james the assets are amends of his stock, passed still shapes life in germany today. memorials like this one. never mind of those who lost their lives. pip, a goldsmith's jewish grandfather escapes that fate. he fled nazi germany and found

safety in england. what typically a lot decades late to she is, reclaims german citizenship as the defendant to someone prosecuted by the nazis. that's her right under germany's basic lo, now she lives here in fallon citizenship. me is it 1st of the is very practical measure. so is about the sort of present say it's about me that in german and being me, being able to. so come and go as those were alike in germany that so. so about the sort of reckoning with the cost is about the citizenship was offered to me by the german constitution. so for me, that's why it's such a so impulsive symbol to have been able to have some reclaimed, my german citizenship. i should have owns has picked a right to soon to publish a book about his story. today had translator and publish that is visiting her at home in balance. i've got a couple of things here, so i'm not interested in. i'm probably because the site, the pay and the book,

the services german possible. but he used to gas into engines hit this ground, salsa and coach, met with stripped of his german citizenship by the nazis for me to come in. chapman has been pods of learning about my grandfather's life, and this is much dates have as i come. so that his memory gets carried for that he died in 1963 so i never knew him. he could never have envisage. that's the honor which become german because it feels like i've made that sort of uh yeah . so the family connection it with, with him. the only way that i can make a connection with a mazda is that, as well as her research and writing tape, assess the culture of remembrance in germany has helped to bridge the gap between them. and now that there is always attention there and like i say that i find that

german people by and large, you know, that history really helps me overcome that tension. they also trying to understand, trying to not to guess what happens and maybe try and learn from the pos, learning from the cost. unfortunately, new beginnings, german citizenship costs thoughts and politics. but more than that, people and the place to call home and with almost 85000000 citizens. there's no one way to be jasmine the to the gas guzzlers polluters. climb is attend, is the cool rise or say all

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