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of mine because no one should have to make up your own mind. dw may 4 mines the a living in safety and freedom, exploring your identity for reconnection with family history. what does german citizenship mean? so people with different backgrounds today. then they part of the thing in germany, even though i can have a say stuff with inside. so for some possible low was about the possible it was also about having to choose an identity and it felt like a, uh, something positive it come out. so it was so terrible history. the

melissa 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 and more testing. mm hm. my mom came to me and asked, so what do you want to be gentlemen? oh, turkish. and then it took a little while to figure out what to do, how much the as a child's melissa had tucker citizenship lights and she chose to apply for a german passport. instead, rose at the time when she could only have one of the on the inside and having to choose between 2 identities. the coaches were just talking about a possible what it was move and that to, of course, that stuff. it's not

a nice feeling that well, but for me it was clear quite quickly for mrs. ross and you know that i would expect 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 the best. this to today that's changed. minister says she's part 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 rang means cala intact. yes. and she publishes a magazine exploring jasmine tactics, culture for me, because i created this image for myself for i'm not sitting between 2 chairs off and put on a bench. i can slide around on that. and i think that mindset has something that's missing also in can pains on websites, in so many things. so the business really came out of

a need is the focus off. and participants have also started in germany today. well must have said, 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 as in the mid 19 fifties march, the beginnings of the more types of 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 that families to join them now people with tax rates make up germany's largest minority, great, many could benefit from a recent over the easing, the positive gem and citizenship. the change will also make dual 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 half bucks or for the credit . it's big news by community and she wants to share it with ranks,

follow as fast as i have spent in donald. okay. hold on up as a cop when preparing a social media post, throw 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 board. and also does the new law allowing jewel 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. can mark you think your thoughts, the reality in minutes has bell in the neighborhood and it takes them to take it. she says, we should come into the supermarket and looked online in the end of culture because what she hopes for gemini, future 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 assets to german society as well as the economy. the country needs more immigration and it's desperately trying to attract skilled labor from abroad. and more and more people are 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 were serious. many arrived here in 2015 off to civil war broke out in the homeland one of them wants to catch up for almost 10 years after arriving in germany as a refugee. he's now a german such as a hub to find all of this. i work so hard to do everything you can do in germany. alice, i'm a homeless my level kind of nice on on kind of,

i'm in the stores and getting the german passports at the end of it feels like i finally made a tear and shaft of lots of 9 months of flat war in syria age 21 along with his older brother, he's supposed to live here in belen land, german and started taking piano. but he hasn't seen the rest of his family for 10 years. my clothes pale people back home because they can come to your on us and i couldn't travel anywhere else either. then, as you just couldn't do it, unfortunately, on that's being, that's more than that. it's the item versus. but now as my german passport makes it possible, it kind of test my inbound to nothing. that's a lot to know. i just didn't have the option. 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 1st stop shop

just a year off to coming to gemini, an app, to help all the refugees navigate the country's notorious bureaucracy. now that's part of his current venture. a platform supporting fellows, migrant entrepreneurs, is closed. and let's see. no, i know i really believe that you commerce in germany have a different and unique perspective on the country and its structures as a vacation, alice on noisy question or if they can 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. i'm the responsibility of the german site to accept that accept kansas. i'm going to allow people migrants to try out their ideas on the law . i think even sentence lots of going to allow me, the eating and so on. so making society pass that that's important to me and i just knew citizenship also main. she 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. hope warm. 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 as a minute, they'll have a new meeting for me. he's not causing them next task on them by tying these i can read them knowing it's also relevant to me and the heart of it. but of the best years on this fifty's off months assess, 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. here have to declare in us saying no respect and not pulse gemini, basic little, or constitution. 50 a month, 75 years since it was adopted and what was done west germany in may 1949. it's still the basis for unified germany today. off to the 2nd level, the basic law was designed to prevent the atrocities of the nazi period from ever happening again. the nazi strips, juice, and other minorities are set right to full citizenship during the holocaust day and that collaborate is mad at 6000000. james, the assets are amends of his stock, passed 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 late to she is, reclaims german citizenship as the defendant of someone prosecuted by the nazis. that's her right under germany's basic, lo, now she lives here in poland. citizenship me is it 1st of the is very practical measure. so is about this little present day, it's about me being german of a meeting. i will just, it will coming. go as those where i like in germany that so so about the sort of reckoning with the cost is about the citizenship is offered to me by the german constitution. so for me, that's why it's such a so impulsive symbol, to have been able to have some reclaimed my german citizenship. so i should have always had 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 and so i'm not interested in pop it because the site to pay and the book services german possible. but he used to get into engines if it's ground salsa and scouts. schmidt with stripped of his german citizenship by the nazis for me to come in, chapman has been part of learning about my grandfather's life, and this is much dates have i come. so that's got his memory, he gets carried for that he died in 1963 so 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, so family connection with with him. the only way that i can make a connection with a mazda is that, as well as have research and writing tape, assess the culture of remembrance in germany has helped to bridge the gap between then and now and that there is always attention there. and like i said,

i found that german people, biological or that history really helps me overcome that tension. they also trying to understand, trying to as not forgets what happens and maybe try and learn from the past. learning from the past and fortune, new beginnings, german citizenship, passports and politics. but more than that, people and a place to call home and with almost 85000000 citizens. that's no one way to be jasmine the on the trail of a not see highest v as of jewish families,

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