What Happens When Countries Offer Birthright Citizenship?
Legal status seems to encourage cultural assimilation.
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Germany
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Unsatisfied Parents and the Fertility Decline
A new German study suggests dissatisfaction with life after having a kid could be behind declining birth rates.
How Children From Different Societies Divvy Up Rewards
"A for effort" may be a strictly Western notion.
The Illusion of Belonging for European Jews
On the surface, today’s Jews can go about their lives as proudly, as openly, and as securely as members of the majority. But as the recent attacks in Denmark and France—and Europe’s response in the aftermath—remind us, this is a frighteningly fragile, if not illusory, achievement.
Was Nazi Germany Everyone’s Fault?
In a new essay collection, historian Richard J. Evans argues against the popular conception.
Why Germany Wants to Look Like Its Soccer Team
In a country where immigrants haven't always been welcome, politicians champion Die Mannschaft as an integrated model of diversity.
What Red Deer Tell Us About Our Dangerous Iron Curtain Obsession
The way the media mishandled a years-old story about the behavior of wildlife where Germany and the Czech Republic meet feeds and legitimizes many people’s visions of impermeable physical borders or solid inter-ethnic lines.
The Country Where Unemployment Is Better Than Employment
In Germany, a country that can't produce the talent or children it needs, the unemployed are in very high demand.