There is already a district in Hamburg where the proportion of residents with a migration background is almost ninety percent.
Hamburg best exemplifies the dramatic effects of German demographic changes. The extent and consequences of mass immigration is clearly shown by the fact that there is a district where the proportion of residents with a migration background is almost ninety percent, reports the V4na.com news agency.
The rapid demographic transformation taking place in Germany is perhaps best exemplified by Hamburg, both because of the city's size and the radical pace of mass immigration. Now, Dirk Nockemann, the leader of Hamburg's Alternative for Germany (AfD) parliamentary party, is warning that the city shows that Germans are becoming a minority in their own country.
"The numbers don't lie: Germans are becoming a minority in their own country, and in some parts Germans are the new minority. This is not a wild conspiracy theory, but pure statistics”
Nockemann said.
The AfD politician said this following the report published by the state statistics office on Tuesday. The data shows that 40.4 percent (790,000 people) in Hamburg have a migration background. Within this, 20.7 percent are foreigners without German citizenship. Billbrook district has the highest proportion of foreigners, 88.1 percent of its residents have a migration background. In other words, there are almost no Germans in this district. Nockemann stated that the consequences of the mass influx of immigrants into Hamburg were "unmistakable: exploding social costs and increasing violent crime".
If we analyze the data for young people, the trends are even more dramatic. In Billbrook, 98.2 percent of people under the age of 18 have a migrant background, while this proportion is 57 percent in Hamburg as a whole. It is noteworthy that more than half of the students in the schools are already foreigners. Language barriers and cultural differences created a real shock in German classrooms across the country, sometimes leading to violence and dangerous environments, but more often to simply poor academic results.
Collapsing education
German society is facing serious consequences, the education crisis is getting worse every year, which is well illustrated by various international surveys and benchmarks.
"Every year, fifty thousand young people leave school without a qualification. Our society cannot afford this. It is also a financial factor – regardless of what this means for the young people themselves. They do not have the opportunity to complete a profession that leads to deep poverty and hopelessness”
- 72-year-old teacher Andrea Pohlmann-Jochheim, vice president of the "Mentor - Die Leselernhelfer" , to Die Welt . As is known, one in four children in Germany does not even learn to read properly by the end of primary school.
According to the teacher, there are several reasons for this:
“Our school system is overburdened. Moreover, heterogeneity is extremely high in many urban areas. Especially in primary schools, it is very difficult for teachers to cope with different language and knowledge levels. In fact, very individualized support is needed to support each child. However, teachers are no longer capable of this".
More than a third of one- to eight-year-olds are not read to regularly. This also means that they do not receive help for language development. Reading aloud would basically help the expansion of vocabulary, children learn grammatical structures.
Another reason is the surge in migration. "It still hasn't been possible to provide early language learning for all those who need it. If the students have an immigrant background, we cannot assume that they immediately learned the German language of instruction upon arriving in Germany," emphasized Doris Lewalter, education researcher at the Technical University of Munich. However, what is forbidden to say in Germany is that the vast majority of children from migrant families do not even want to learn German.
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