Angela Merkel and her refugee policy would have divided the country, one hears again and again. But two now in Berlin, presented studies to the General mood, to plead for a more differentiated view.
Many media, describing especially the “social”, Germany is currently a divided country. On the one hand, the supporters of Chancellor Angela Merkel. On the other hand, their opponents, including many voters and sympathizers of the right-wing populists. Some of the debate of the last few weeks in the Bundestag has strengthened this impression.
The beginning of the week was presented in Berlin to a study irritated. The climate between migrants and Non-migrants has come in the Wake of the refugee crisis in 2015/16’t much worse and are still in the positive range. Since some of the critical journalists shook first of all, doubtful with the head.
The higher the value, the better the integration climate. 100 is the Maximum, 0 the Minimum. In the left pane, people without a migration background assess the climate, in the right of people with a migration background.
Common everyday decides
The study authors of the expert Council of German foundations for Integration and Migration responded to the question, how can you explain the divide in opinion, with the special approach of the study: Here, everyday had been experiences queried – so, at work, in school or in a tenement house.
Particularly in the study is that both German as well as German have been interviewed without an immigrant background. Of the 9,000 respondents, the most – namely, 6000 – even had a migration background. In their everyday life had not changed so much, it said. We stand still together on a tape in the car factory or parts of a school Bank.
Presentation of the integration barometer: Claudia Diehl and Thomas K. Bauer from the national Council of experts of German foundations for Integration and Migration, in addition to Annette Widmann-Mauz (on the right), the migration Commissioner of the Federal government
Fear of Strangers
The discussion of refugees have threatened the social cohesion, not to be read out from the results, said the Chairman of the Council of economic experts, Professor Thomas Bauer. The integration of climate was stable and positive, he is pointing to the value. “It runs in the everyday life quite well,” added study author Claudia Diehl.
Where there is but limited points of contact with migrants, so have the authors measured the values even worse. So, especially in many Parts of East Germany, in which the migrants rate is single-digit. Unlike in some Western provinces, where every third person has a migration background. The Index where the integration experiences were missing, below the value of 50.
Germany does not compare with the USA
“The polarization plated perceived,” said then on Wednesday, Renate quiver. As Director of the renowned Institut für demoskopie Allensbach, she is like a walking mood barometer. Although there is a polarisation, but only in minorities. From the “sick” climate in the United States, so the quiver was Germany economically and politically “miles” away.
Renate Köcher, Head of the Institute for Demoskopie Allensbach, presented in Berlin, the new study on the “Generation Mitte”, so the 30 – to 59-Year-old
So everything is not so bad? Not at all, because the quiver, presented in Berlin, an alarming study on the mood of the 30 – to 59-Year-old. In spite of many years of good economic situation to have halved the level of confidence in the political stability for 2015. For 27 percent of the approximately 1000 respondents, politics is a subject that gives you stability. The policy therefore become the problem child.
In 2015 after the policy was still 49 percent of the respondents a sense of security. Since then, it went downhill up to the current level of 27 percent
The true Fears and Concerns of the German
A Declaration for the “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) did not want to connect to quiver. Currently the Institute attaches to a consent of 15% for the German right wing. The AfD still live by their “potency”, the refugee issue, quiver. On the other, the party had become a collecting pool of the Discontented, what to show in a critical relationship to the state and institutions. As relevant for the overall mood, but the quiver describing something else.
In Germany, the Ideal of the social dominate cohesion. Even the top layer of wool and are responding to a strong welfare state and no discoloration under layer. The readiness for redistribution is high. Here are the true Fears and Concerns of the German, so the message of the Demoskopin lurked. Because two-thirds of the respondents have criticized, according to the study, the decrease of social cohesion. In addition, many missing a sufficient respect for rules, see increasing “reservations to non-residents”, criticized the ruthlessness and materialism. Only a third say that We live in happy times. Germany fröstele, described it quiver.
The German pursuit of community, balancing, and with each other in everyday life, the results of both studies can be summarized. Of social polarization, they do not hold a lot, actually – and to see the policy in the duty to prevent the.
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