Posted on 10/07/2018 5:56:41 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The German economy is booming. Unemployment is at a near-record low. In Europe and around the world, the country is seen as a beacon of wealth and efficiency.
So why are these prosperous young Germans so doggedly pessimistic about their future?
Peter Matuschek, chief political analyst at the German polling institute Forsa, says that while Germans tend to be content with their own lives, they feel less at ease with the direction the country is taking.
And while the assumption may be that this is a phenomenon among older Germans, it’s also very much affecting the younger generation. Mirroring the post-Brexit vote UK, the data shows that young people feel they’ve been saddled with the problems of their parents and grandparents.
To be fair, it has been a tumultuous summer for Germans. A high-profile showdown over migration nearly brought down the government. Mesut Özil, a member of Germany’s national football team who is of Turkish descent, quit this summer after alleging racism from team members and fans. The incident forced broader discussions about the prevalence of everyday racism in Germany.
And in late August, video footage of far-right sympathisers rioting and chasing foreigners through the streets of Chemnitz, a town in the East German state of Saxony, shook the country and reopened questions about the extent to which Germany has learned from its past.
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Because they are not Muslim and the so called men will be the playthings of the imams and the women relegated to breeding sows for the glory of MadMo.
They couldn’t possibly be gloomy that number of rapes in their country is through the roof!!!
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6527/migrants-rape-germany
Well let’s see, they’re being led by Merkel who is a communist promoting an Islamic invasion...
Yeah it’s all the “right-wing’s” fault.
> So why are these prosperous young Germans so doggedly pessimistic about their future?
Because they’re Germans! Second only to Swedes as the most depressed damn people in the world!
Then they invade Poland to cheer up.
The German “far right” party
Yup. They start wars and lose them in the end.
All things considered, do they prefer having Jews or Muslims?...
“Germans are always gloomy about something.
Bingo. Have you ever heard of a German comedian?
Ya mean the fact that their sovereignty was sold for little more than a bowl of beans?
Awkward!!!
The hippy Germans are the ones who have hurt their nation, just like here in the US.
German Comedian,,,
I’m striking out.
Yakov Smirnoff,
Russian connection.
No they are not because thier parents and grandparents did not have to deal with muslim immigrants.
The dilution of the meaning of the word “racism” means true racism isn’t even noticed. Using this new definition of racism, in the 70’s we could accuse Germans of being racist towards Yugoslavs, since Croats and Serbs are as much of a different race from Germans as Turks are. I began noticing this in news reports from Britain, where blonde Poles accused the english of racism towards them. What happened to simply using the term prejudice?
Yeh they don’t want to be muslims.
Given an existential crisis, Americans, including the young, are some of the most fight ready people on the planet. Due to our love of freedom, Americans are as a matter of nature courageous to our very bones. Those who test us on it pay hard for the experience, even to the point of national catastrophe.
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