"Looms," says the headline?!
I have lived in a small town in Germany for the past 36 years. I have seen it happening - rather abruptly.
When sitting in my morning commuter bus, traveling from one sleepy little town to another, I note that roughly half of the school-age passengers are visibly non-German. A great many of them are also audibly non-German (meaning: They have no qualms about jabbering away in their strange argots or are simply unable to speak the local language). Among the older passengers, I might occasionally be sitting next to or opposite a native German. Maybe a little old German lady, making big eyes at the big, tough-looking, bearded "yutes" glaring down at her.
I always feel like leaning over in my seat and stage-whispering, "Ihr schafft das, ja!" (Alluding to Merkel's "Wir schaffen das!" = "We can handle it!).
Bear in mind: This is not some metropolitan area - but rather the deep province.
Regards,
I lived in West Berlin for 3 years in the 60’s. One would occasionally see Turkish gast arbeiters.Now, one occasionally sees ethnische Deutsche.
Freeper pepsionice (American expat in Germany) runs a blog called Schnitzel Republic and has an interesting report about some local charities getting heat for only giving food to those with German passports as the immigrants were starting to overwhelm them.
Germany has a HARTZ IV program of welfare, and that there are 650,000 people on it with a LARGE percentage being the immigrants. What boggled my mind is that he reported a lot of poverty among pensioners and others. In Germany? The "Powerhouse of Europe"?