Over 16 mio of germans/people living in germany have a migrant background, its the second most popular immigration country after the USA according to the OECD.
Let's also not forget that lots of Germans today actually have a fair percentage of Russian blood following WW2. I'll leave the cause to the imagination.
I don't know a single person in the german tech industry who gives a shit about where you are from, did you ever live there at all?
It doesn't seem to me that immigrants are welcome in the USA either as a whole (disclaimer: i am german working for a NYC company), but the tech community is different there, more open and interested in what you can offer instead of how you look.
It's basically the same from my very own experience, your whole argument seems non sense to me, Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne for example are one of the most diverse cities i have ever been to especially when i compare it to South East Asia where i currently life.
Did you ever visit the SV to say that immigrants aren't welcome there?
Diversity does not mean mixing. You can put a lot of different fluids in a pot and they won't mix. I see a lot of different people here, but except for business (aka money) reasons, there is few mixing.
You lack reading comprehension, i said in the tech hubs immigrants are welcome more than in other parts especially rural areas.
So yes, of course SV and NYC are more open to immigration then the countryside, same as in germany.
Compared to SEA both countries (DE and USA) are super welcoming, here in Thailand as a foreigner it's damn hard, i cannot even own a business as a majority owner. Nor can i buy land, it's also next to impossible to ever get a permant residency. Other SEA countries are the same, its pretty discouraging.
I work in the Berlin startup world and i can tell you that probably the majority of people are not german. Lots of new people coming from all over the world, english is the most dominant language.
I myself am the only german in a company that has employees from Brazil, US, Canada, India and Spain.
Same here, the startup I work for has ~100 employees less than a 1/5 are native German speakers. Though some team (e.g. operations, HR) are obviously more biased to people who speak the language well.
Actually immigration was desperately needed by them to rebuild the country devastated by the ww2, that's was the only reason, we all know.
But children born there from those people who immigrated to reconstruct their country weren't considered German until jus soli citizenship be adopted (with caveats) only in 2000.
It is very normal to see in Berlin for example, German born people who aren't considered Germans, neither have citizenship, only because they are children of foreigners.
The country has been mostly rebuild by germans itself with a lot of financial aid of course. The 60s immigration wave was caused by the west german Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle), due to the eastern german wall it was not possible for east germans and other eastern europeans to migrate to western germany. Thus they invited turkish citizens as a lot of manufacturing jobs in the automobile industry and co. needed workers.
Which financial aid have you got in mind? East Germany was basically cleared by the Soviet Union. The Marshall Plan went mostly to the UK and France, only a small part (11%) went to West Germany.
Thanks for the explanation. Can you also explain why the children of those turkish citizens as the example that you pick, aren't considered German citizens and neither were able to get the German citizenship even after being born and growing up as adults in Germany?
Yes, there are 2 old concepts which are used by most countries.
1) Jus sanguinis (latin for blood ties or right of blood), this means u get citizenship if one of your parents is a citizen of country X.
2) Jus soli (latin for right of the soil), which means u get citizenship by the territory you are born on.
Both countries the USA and Germany nowadays have a mix of those, Germany had 1. back in the day and then introduced 2. over time, also special foreigner laws like getting a permant residency permit quiet eaily after you have been there for 8 years.
SEA especially Thailand has still only 1. so it's quiet impossible to get permant residencies till today - but fear not, you can bribe urself in paying money and its called the thai elite card -.-
I suppose you could say it goes both ways. On one hand they traditionally weren't easily accepted as a natural part of German society. On the other hand (perhaps also as a reaction towards that kind of rejection), many people with a Turkish background didn't and to some extent still don't want to become part of German society.
It's not just Germany. My Austrian born son didn't automatically qualify for Austrian citizenship at birth. He could only initially obtain the nationality of parents (fortunately he has three to choose from).