wenn das bild des "hässlichen deutschen" im europäischen ausland jetzt darin besteht ,dass wir zuviel flüchtlinge aufnehmen und damit zuviel humanitäre hilfe leisten , dann kann ich damit gut leben.
Das würdest du anders sehen, wenn du die englische Presseartikel lesen würdest.
Deutschland zeigt Herz und ist eine moralischer Instanz in der Flüchtlingspolitik:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/its-starting-look-like-germany-6397791Vollzitat, weil es so schön ist:
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It's starting to look like Germany won WW2 in every way bar the fighting
They’ve done better than us, and you’d have to be a neo-Nazi to deny they behave better than us too
Picture, if you can, 17,000 refugees walking off ferries at Dover.
Most of them are brown, many are Muslim, and they all want to claim asylum in the United Kingdom.
What do you think most of the people who lived here would do?
I can imagine lots of things, but I can’t picture hundreds of Britons writing “Wilkommen zu Britannien” on their bedsheets and waving them from atop the White Cliffs.
ReutersMigrant convoyActivists hold a banner at a parking lot in Vienna before a convoy of around 140 cars leaves for Hungary to distribute aid and collect refugees
It’s possible to imagine a few good souls going down to the docks with cheese sandwiches, but I struggle to picture dancing, chanting, general celebrating and a convoy of 140 cars stuffed with food, water and stuffed toys.
I can’t picture David Cameron inviting them in the first place. I can’t see a situation in which his popularity here and internationally would rocket for doing so.
And I really can’t see Nigel Farage being told to keep his gob shut about any of it.
GettyA young migrant woman carries a baby before departing a transit zone on a public bus to the Hungarian border village Hegyeshalom early in the morning in BudapestA young migrant woman carries a baby before departing a transit zone on her way to Germany
Yet that’s pretty much what happened in Germany this weekend. A nation that, for centuries, was regarded as being as close as a brother to Britain in outlook, language and culture.
After the horrors of the Second World War that fraternity was replaced by resentment, moral superiority, and a national narrative of Plucky Britain,Two World Wars And One World Cup.
The Germans have been, for the whole span of mine and my parents’ lives, The Enemy – Them.
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They are the ones who started the war. They are the ones who don’t have a sense of humour and are too good at football. They are wrong, and we are always right.
Yet in the past 48 hours it is Germany that opened its doors to 17,000 people claiming – but not necessarily able to prove – refugee status.
It was Germans who wrote “Welcome to Germany” in English on their banners, an act most of us wouldn’t be able to reciprocate without using Google and even then wouldn’t see the point of it, because why can’t everyone speak English?
BBCJohn Cleese as basil Fawlty in the television programme Fawlty TowersI mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it
It’s Angela Merkel whose international popularity has soared, if not in Hungary then certainly elsewhere.
And while Germany has seen riots, and hundreds of organised attacks on refugees by the Far Right, a demonstration in Dortmund this weekend drew a piddling 26 protesters.
Merkel has said this is about civil rights and European solidarity; centre-right politicians have agreed with her, leaving the angry right with nowhere to go but criminality.
GettyAngela Merkel comforting a a crying Palestinian girl threatened with deportationAngela Merkel comforting a a crying Palestinian girl threatened with deportation
In the UK, the angry right is so socially acceptable that Nigel’s on the evening news often enough to persuade 4million people not to bother reading his manifesto.
In 2005 the United Nations Population Fund listed Germany as having the third largest migrant population in the world.
The UK was ninth, yet we’re the ones who panic most about migrants.
ReutersLeader of the United Kingdom Independence Party Nigel Farage attends the meet of the Old Surrey Burstow and West Kent Hunt at Chiddingstone Castle for the annual Boxing Day hunt in Chiddingstone, south east England December 26, 2014Well done! Idiots
Here, the right wing argue foreign-born residents will steal from us, claim benefits, scrounge, breed, destroy the social fabric.
In Germany, the right wing say that with one of the lowest birth rates in Europe and an ageing population they need the workers.
Our birth rate is a little higher, but not much – yet our politicians moan that children of migrants will bring the education system to its knees.
ReutersSyrian refugee children look out from their tentSyrian refugee children look out from their tent
Thousands more Germans than Brits have volunteered to help the refugees or open their homes to them, and several big-name football clubs have made free tickets available.
In the UK the popular press has for months conflated migrants with refugees. Some have likened those drowning in the Mediterranean to cockroaches.
Bild, the most popular German tabloid, has a similar right wing bent. It has reported on migrants getting “an easy ride”. Yet last week it mounted a front page campaign titled “Wir helfen!” – we help!
Editor Kai Diekmann said: “We have focused on how heroism at home is unfolding: citizens picking up refugees at night to give them shelter, elderly couples sharing their house with Syrian families and ‘new grandchildren’, teachers giving German classes, companies giving jobs and apprenticeships…”
Again 200 people drowned in the Mediterranean - Traffickers arrested in Italy - Renewed attacks on those fleeing - Why we are now all calling for action on the big picture
Our tabloids don’t have an opportunity to report the same thing here, even if they wanted to, because we’re not doing it.
Some might say Germany is only doing it to make up for the mistakes of the past. Perhaps, but I think that’s to judge the Germans by our own unpleasant standards.
They’re doing it for two reasons – because it’s right, and because they know how it feels.
GettyBorussia Dortmund vs Hannover 96Borussia Dortmund fans show support for refugees
Millions of Germans fled the Soviets as the Second World War ended. Many sought shelter in West Germany, and spent decades terrified for the well-being of family and friends left behind in the East.
Before the Berlin Wall was built, 3.5m Germans used immigration loopholes to get out; afterwards, 5,000 people tried to climb, tunnel, run, or trick their way around it.
Two hundred didn’t make it.
After the war, Britain rested on its laurels. Germany rebuilt, reunified, and it worked damned hard.
GettyDresden before and afterRebirth: Dresden's Zwinger art museum in 1946 and in 2015
It had financial help from the Marshall Plan but that ran out in 1952: everything since then has been Germany’s own doing.
While Britain pootled along with The Beatles and strikes and Labour vs Tories, Germany got its head down, got used to coalitions, and elected a childless female leader who’s been running the place for 10 years with great success.
The worst of the misogyny she’s faced for doing so is criticism of her practical but unexciting suit jackets.
Getty ImagesGermany's Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) gestures while chatting with US President Barack Obama sitting on a bench outside the Elmau Castle"Seriously, Angie, it looks fine."
Idiots talk about Germany running Europe just like it always wanted to – but the truth is it does so democratically, wisely, and by seeking consensus.
As a nation, they’ve learned from their past, while we’ve dwelled upon it. The Germans have striven, while we’ve sat.
And not only can they afford to take in lots of migrants, being the wealthiest nation in Europe, they WANT to.
We are almost as wealthy, and almost as in need of new young workers, and we DON’T want to help in case it puts us out in some indefinable way.
David Cameron as John Cleese in Fawlty TowersGet the hors d'oeuvres! Hors d'oeuvres which must be obeyed at all times without question!
Cultural narratives be damned – Germany won the Second World War in every way bar the fighting. They’ve done better than us, and you’d have to be a neo-Nazi to deny they behave better than us too.
They learned their lessons, discovered humility, and tried hard to be nice. We just mocked them and told the world we were morally superior.
And now we’re in serious danger of forfeiting the right to do either.
So tell me again - who won the Second World War?
Die letzten 7 Tage haben mehr zum positiven Image der Deutschen beigetragen als die letzten 70 Jahre. Ob das so bleibt liegt vor allen Dingen auch an denen, die es bis hierher geschafft haben.
Wolfshaag schrieb:Es gibt hier offenbar ja auch nur eine erwünschte Meinung.
