With her latest announcements at a congress of Junge Union, the Youth organisation of CDU/CSU in Germany, Angela Merkel has shown her lack of insight into the reality of the German society. Germany is and has already been for a long time a multicultural country. Once again in history, it is apparent that the concept of German “Leitkultur” has failed. Nobody really knows what it means, but “Leitkultur” as a term is frequently used in the discussion in order to pretend that there is such a thing like a German culture.
With this statement Merkel gets involved in an absolute aimless debate about integration that is taking place in Germany at the moment. Merkel is obviously trying to show that the Christian Democrats are still the “right” choice for racists. Her xenophobic rhetoric is leading nowhere in the current debate on integration of “foreigners” in Germany and just links in with the many racist stereotypes that are still reproduced in German society.
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