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by slaw 37 days ago
Migrants to Germany account for 30.2% of the total population.

Is Germany not enough diverse for you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Germany

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Yes, sorry, there is a lot of diversity of course, especially on the lower level. It's rather equality and inclusion that need improving.

It's an anecdotal evidence, but while looking for a job I liked looking up employees on linkedin, then looking up the leadership on company's website. First one would always be much more diverse than the second one

You didn't notice older people are Germans and younger migrants?
The Germans themselves chose not to have children.
I think they were pushed not to have children, if that matters. Pushed via economical measures that made it very hard and pushed via education/indoctrination that kids are bad in multiple ways.

My grandparents had many brothers and sisters each and life was harder back then, but it was easier to raise a large family than today. What changed? Taxes, with direct and indirect effects.

> What changed?

Contraception. Children weren't optional back then, they just happened naturally.

Wait until you learn you can be German and not look like the Bavarian stereotypes
From your own link 30% is the widest definition possible:

> As of 2024, around 17.4 million people living in Germany, or 20.9% of the population, are first-generation immigrants, while the population with a migrant background in the wider sense stood at approximately 25.2 million, accounting for 30.2% of the total population of 83.5 million

Thats a very misleading statistic

"Migrant background" is really broad indeed, it takes just one parent who wasn't born with a German parent to be considered as having a "background". Also most of them are EU migrants
who wasn't born with a German passport, sorry. So in worst case one immigrant grandparent is enough
What exactly is misleading to you?