and the list of characters feels that human balance 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 when a more testing. mm hm. my mom came to me and asked, so what do you want to be german altercation? and then it took a little while to figure out what to do this, 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 alpha for some 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 but for me it was clear quite quickly for ms. ross and you know that obviously snacks 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 parts 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 permission because 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 the desk 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 all of them started in germany today. well, most of fed, if the population have 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 diverse 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 have both or for the credit, it's big news by community and she wants to share it with ranks,

follow as fast as i have a sent in donald. okay, hold on up as the hancock when preparing a social media post route instagram page, that is what we want to let people know about this new lord. and then the post is also about identity and what a passport can mean to people are supposed to pass for on the door 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 ma 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 talking about in the end of culture is what she hopes for germany 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 i assume you provide an asset for 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 and 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 was serious. many arrives here in 2015 off the civil war broke outs, and the homelands one of them wants a car top almost 10 years after arriving in germany as a refugee. he's now jem and such as and 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 embedded invalid and starts up saying he launched his fast offs up just

a year off to coming to germany and out to help all the refugees navigate the countries in the taurus gear up per se. now that's part of his current venture, a platform supporting fellow migrant entrepreneurs. if clause con, trustee. no, i know i really believe that you commerce in germany have a different and unique perspective on the country and its structures of invitation . alas, on noise question, i'll take and look at germany with fresh eyes and say this. so that's not working. can you estimate that 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. chances are going to allow people migrants to try out their ideas on the large and even columns. that's going to allow me the easy, easy and fast on. so making society best thoughts 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 count the entire 1st 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 the city. hol, let me tell them 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. doesn't mean that they'll have a new meaning for me, cause some of the us funding by tying these i can read them knowing it's also relevant to me on this and on the heart of it. but of us here on the fifty's off a month to says 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 who you have to declare and saying no respect and not post germany's basic low or constitution. this c a mock 75 years since it was adopted in what was then west germany in may 1949. it's still the basis for unified gemini 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, if that right to full citizenship during the holocaust they and that collaborate is mad at $6000000.00. 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 lot decades like to she is, reclaims german citizenship as a defendant to someone persecuted by the nazis. that's her right under germany's basic, lo, now she lives here in poland. citizenship me, is it 1st of these very practical measures? so is about this little present, say it's about me being german and being me, being able to so will coming go. uh so those uh where are like in germany that so so about the sort of reckoning with the cost is about the citizenship is also to me by the german constitution. so for me that's why it's such a so enforcing symbol to have been able to have. so it's reclaimed my german citizenship so i should have who is, has a right to soon to publish a book about his story today had translates room publish that is visiting her at home and balance. i've got a couple of things to say, i'm sorry,

not interested in some property because the site pay in the book. the services german possible that he used to get into engines hip. his grandfather and scouts met with stripped of his german citizenship by the nazis for me to come in. german has been pods of learning about my grandfather's life and this is much dates. have i come so that his memory gets carried for that? he died in 1963 and 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 sort of family connection it with with him. the only way that i can make a connection with a master and staff as well as how research and writing tape assess the culture of remembrance in germany has helped to bridge the gap between them. and now that

there is always attention there. and like i said, i found that german people by and large, you know, that history really helps me overcome that tension. they also trying to understand, trying to 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

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