when generation slash dw says kind of fun, it feels like therapy, the living in safety and freedom. exploring your identity for reconnecting with family history. what just german citizenship means. so people with different backgrounds today. then they part of the thing in germany, even though i can have a say stuff inside. so for some possible low was about the possible. it was also about having to choose an identity that felt like a, uh, something positive it come out. so it was so terrible history, the

a melissa character sales at home in berlin, 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 will text me. my mom came to me and asked, so what do you want to be gentlemen? oh, turkish. and then it took a little while to figure out what to do, how much the as a child's 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 on the inside and having to choose between 2 identities. the coaches were just talking about a policy for what it was moved and that to, of course, that stuff. it's not a nice feeling that well not. but for me, it was clear quite quickly for mrs. ross,

and you know that i would expect law if you would, jim in the 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 the best this to 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 intact. yes. and she publishes a magazine exploring german tactics, culture have permission because 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 can pains on websites in so many things. so the business really came out of a need is the focus off, and the business has also installed it in germany today. well must have said,

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 as in the mid 19 fifties march, the beginnings of the more types of society, the majority were from talking to came under a scheme for temporary workers to help each labor shortages most returned 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 a recent over the easing, the positive gem and citizenship. the change will also make jewel 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 half bucks or for the credit . it's big news by community and she wants to share it with ranks, follow as fast as applause donald's name or the up as a cop when preparing

a social media post route instagram page. that is what we want to let people know about this new lord. 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 other. 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. awesome. can mark you think your thoughts 3, i would say in melissa's bell in may. go ahead and take it. she says, we should come into the supermarket and what's going on in the end of culture because what she hopes, which i'm in the future. because 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, but 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 jem and 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 are making gemini that long term home. in 2022, the number of people granted german citizenship had to 20 high move in a culture of them were serious. many arrived yet in 2015 off to civil war broke house. and that homeland one of them wants to catch up almost 10 years after arriving in germany as a refugee. he's now a german such as in hub to find all of this. i work so hard to do everything you can do in germany. alice, i'm a homeless 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 9 months of flat board in syria age 21. along with his older brother, he's supposed to live here in belen lent german and started taking piano. but he hasn't seen the rest of his family for 10 years. they closed out of a home. 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's the item with us. but now as like german passport makes it possible this kind of best buy in button. so nothing that's a lot to now 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 and stuff up saying he launched his fast stuff up just a year off to coming to gemini, an app, to help other refugees navigate the countries notorious bureaucracy. now that's

part of his current venture. a platform supporting fellow migrant entrepreneurs is close on plus the noise in the i really believe that new comers in germany have a different and unique perspective on the country. and it 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 yesterday, that's good. we could improve on this. and if so, this doesn't, but it's also the job and the responsibility of the german site to accept that accept kansas. i'm going to allow people migrants to try out their ideas on the last name, cuttings, lots of going to allow me. it's a easy, easy and alpha one. so making society pass that 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 hold. let me tell them that. that's 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 meeting for me. he's not causing them next task on them by tying these. i can read them knowing it's also relevant to me on this and the 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 or in a democracy like germany,

citizenship means rights, freedom protection, as well as responsibilities. those to become naturalized citizens who you have to declare in saying no respect and not pulse. germany's basic low or constitution. 50 a month 75 years since it was adopted in what was done west germany in may 1949. it's still the basis for unified gemini 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 day and that collaborate is mad at 6000000. james the assets are amends of his stock passed still shapes life in germany today. memorials like this one i remind of those who lost their lives. pick a goldsmith's jewish grandfather escapes that fate. he fled to nazi germany and

found safety in england. what typically a lot decades late to she is, reclaims german citizenship as a defendant to someone persecuted by the nazis. that's her right under germany's basic, lo, now she lives here in poland. citizenship, me is it 1st so the is very practical measures are, is about this little present. say it's about me being german of a meeting. i will just, it will coming. go as those where i like in germany that so so about the sort of reckoning with the cost is about the citizenship is also to me by the german constitution. so for me that's why it's such a so enforcing symbol to have been able to have some reclaimed my german citizenship. so i should have always had a right to soon to publish a book about his story today had translates room publish that is visiting her at home and balance. i've got a couple of things here. so i'm not interested in pop it because the site pay in

the book, the services german possible, but he used to get into things and hit this ground salsa and scold schmidt 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 isn't in as much states have as i come. so that's his mind where he gets carried for that he died in 1963, so i never knew him. he could never have envisage that. the honor would become german because it feels like i've made that sort of, uh, yeah, that so family connection 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 that and now and that there is always a tension there. and like i say that i found that german people by and large,

you know, that history really helps me overcome that tension. they also trying to understand, trying to as not forgets what happens and maybe try and learn from the past. learning from the past and fortune, new beginnings, german citizenship, passports and politics. but more than that, people and the place to cool home and with almost 85000000 citizens. there's no one way to be jasmine, the fashion for big stars made in mckinney and slam of 2 beta against all od david,

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