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Germans or Foreigners?: Attitudes Toward Ethnic Minorities in Post-Reunification Germany (Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series)

By Peter Schmidt

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
1403963789, 9781403963789, 9780230608825
Open Library ID
OL8400254M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2980717 bytes)
Pages
308\317
Topic
Education
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book examines contemporary attitudes towards ethnic minorities in Germany. These minorities include some of immigrant origin, such as Italians, Turks, and asylum seekers, and the principal non-immigrant minority, Jews. While the findings demonstrate that intense prejudice against minorities is not widespread among Germans, many of whom in fact can be considered immigrant- and minority-friendly, a crystallization of attitudes is also evident: that is, attitudes towards immigrants are strongly correlated with anti-Semitism and with other worldview dimensions, such as positioning in the left-right political spectrum. In this sense, the fundamental question of whether immigrants and other minorities should be regarded as fellow citizens or ethnic outsiders remains relevant in the German context.

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