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tomorrow, and join us and register now for the d. w global media for in 2020, for the a. living in safety and freedom. exploring your identity or reconnecting with family history. what does german citizenship mean for people with different backgrounds today? the part of the thing in germany, even though i can have a say stuff with inside sales was impossible, low was about the passport. it was also about having to choose an identity and it felt like a uh, something positive it come out. so it was so terrible history, the

a melissa kind of coach sales at home in belin, 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 minimal 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. this my, how much the as a child, melissa had tucker citizenship. later she chose to apply for a german passport instead. rules at the time when she could only have one of the of the child and having to choose between 2 identities. the coaches were just talking about a possible, but it was more than that, of course, that stuff. it's not a nice feeling that well not. but for me it was clear quite quickly for ms. ross

and yes, i would expect law if you would, jim and 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 as the best . this to me today that's changed. minister says she's part 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 cala intact. yes. and she publishes a magazine exploring jasmine tech is culture. have for me, i created this image for myself where i'm not switching between 2 chairs off and put on a bench. i can slide around on that and i think that mindset has something that's missing also in campaigns on websites, in so many things. so the business really came out of a need is the focus off, and participants have also started in germany today, almost

a said if the population half what's known as the migration background, meaning they, or at least one of the parents, was born without german citizenship. the arrival of guesswork is 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 ease labor shortages most returned the many states and brought their families to join them now people with tax rates make up germany's largest minority, great. many could benefit from a recent over or below a thing, the positive gentleman, citizenship, the change will also make jewels 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 for the credit. it's big news by community and she wants to share it with ranks, follow as fast as i have spent in donald. okay. hold on up as the hancock when

preparing a social media post ro instagram page. that is what we want to let people know about this new law. 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 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 class. can mar configure, that's the reality and melissa's bell in may. go ahead and take it. she says we should come into the supermarket and we're probably not in the end of culture because what she hopes for gemini future. as principal, 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 eyes and give advice and assets to german 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 time home. in 2022, the number of people granted german citizenship had to 20 high move in a culture of them were serious. many arrived here in 2015 off the civil war broke outs, and that homeland one of them wants to catch up almost 10 years after arriving in germany as a refugee. he's now jem and 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, the stores and getting the german passports at the end of it. the feels like i

finally made a tear and shocked of lots of 9 months of fled to bore in syria age 21. along with his older brother. he's supposed to live here in belen land, german and started taking piano. but he hasn't seen the rest of his family for 10 years. my client is pale, pick on it cause they can come to your on us and i couldn't travel anywhere else either then. or you just couldn't do it. unfortunately on that's being, that's one of them that the item does us. but now as my german passport makes it possible to kind of test my inbound so nothing that's a lot to know. i just didn't have the option. so that's why it's really important to have it me grover's taste as much on full time product design as months. that is also family and budget and file install top saying, he launched his 1st stop shop 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 to us. the no, i know, i really believe that you commerce in germany have a different and unique perspective on the country and it structures as of it takes us on knowing question. i'll take and look at germany with fresh eyes and say this . so that's not working. and yesterday's desk 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 law. i think even sentence lots of going to allow me, the easy, easy and, and so on. so making society best if 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 counts the entire parts, 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 this city whole form told him 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 or miss and the other part of it. but the best here on this is off months assess, he'll always have his theory and identity. but german citizenship means a sense of belonging here to in a democracy like germany,

citizenship means rights, freedom protection, as well as responsibilities. those to become naturalized citizens. here have to declare in a saying no respect and not pulse chapman, these basic little book constitution. this the a mock 75 years since it was adults and what was done west germany in may 1949. it's still the basis for unified germany today. off to the 2nd level, the basic glow 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 they and that collaborate to some of it's 6000000. james, the assets are amends of his stock, bostic 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 nazi germany and found

safety in england. what typically a law decades later, she is reclaimed german citizenship as a defendant to someone prosecuted by the nazis. that's her right under germany's basic, lo, now she lives here in portland southern citizenship. me is it 1st of the is very practical measure. so is about the sort of present say it's about me, but in german and being me, being able to so come and go as those were alike in germany that so. so about the sort of reckoning with the cost is about the citizenship is also to me by the general constitution. so for me that's why it's such just so important symbols to have been able to have so reclaimed my german citizenship. so i should have always had a right to soon to publish a book about his story today, head translator and publish that is visiting her at home in balance. i've got a couple of things i have still not interested in. i'm probably because the site to

pay in the book, services, german possible, but he used to gas into engines, hit the scrum salsa and scold schmidt with stripped of his german citizenship by the nazis for me to come in, chapman has been todds of learning about my grandfather's life and this is much dates handles. i come so that his memory gets carried forward that he died in 1963 and so i never knew him. he could never have envisage. that's the honor which become german, but 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 attention there. and like i said, i found that german painful biologic know that history really helps me overcome

that tension. they also trying to understand, trying to as not to guess what happens and maybe try and learn from the past learning from the past. unfortunately, new beginnings, german citizenship, passports and politics. but more than that, people and the place to cool home and with almost 85000000 citizens. that's no one way to be jasmine. the other kid is by a confident bursting with creativity. leads to design is and cultural

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