International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) 2013/2014 (English Version)

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• „Depending on what kind of immigrants. 200,000 Spaniards with a degree, some training, that's an asset. But when 200,000 unemployed people come from Bulgaria who have no school education, then there is a lack of quality and that is not an enrichment, not even for the German economy. I cannot say, I do not know who is immigrating.“ (TP 09)
• „I can't tell you at all, because I don't know. Because the term "immigrant" is too vague for me. Are they legal or illegal immigrants? All illegals are bad for us. We needed them, we got them. But illegals are first of all a cost factor.“ (TP 12)

• „The collective term of immigrants is the problem, some groups are like that, others are not. This cannot be said per se.“ (TP 10, Item a))
• „How? That's nonsense [...] If a mechanical engineer comes from Spain, speaks perfect English and wants his 2,000 euros and I want my 4,000, then my job is taken away. It's true. It depends on the qualification. With a high qualification: yes. But there is also the other side.“ (TP 09, Item c))

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• „There are immigrants who undermine German culture. There are those who come to us and don't want to allow us to live out our culture, for example by removing crucifixes from classrooms. It's not possible!" (TP 04)
• „I don't see how German culture is undermined by immigrants. It may be that the immigrants do not want to accept German culture, but I think that is perfectly fine, because they have their own culture. I also did not want to give up all my rights when I go to an Islamic country. I understood the question as if German culture would be destroyed to a certain ex- tent by immigration. And I do not think that.“ (TP 07)

• „If we Germans cultivate our culture, then I see no problem.“ (TP 05)
• „Our culture becomes richer by coming into contact with other cultures, and so each culture can develop further, and it is more likely to become an international culture if it mixes. I don't think that the Germans will lose their own culture because of that.“ (TP 06)
• „In big cities it looks like this. If there is a kebab stand on every corner, it looks like German culture is getting lost. If you go out a little bit, then you see German culture again. For me it has not been lost. You have to drive down the German wine street and then you have the German culture again.“(TP 09)
• „I am undecided whether we as Germans allow our culture to be undermined. We must see for ourselves that we uphold our culture. If we uphold our own culture, no matter what one understands by it, religion, education and whatever belongs to culture, this cannot be undermined either.” (TP 15)

• „I have now seen it in such a way that they do not adapt to our culture. They don't have to go to religious instruction. And if I go abroad, nobody will build churches, we'll build mosques here. If they are here and want to live here, then they just have to adapt.“ (TP 11)
• „That depends. Where I live, there are people who make their own culture, they raise their own culture. A different culture is opened up in the middle of Germany, they don't fit in at all. None of them learn German, they only speak Albanian and open up their own culture, it's not possible. And then there are groups who speak German and adapt to the German conditions. I don't have to adapt to them, they have to adapt to me, they come here. Many adapt, some do not adapt at all.“ (TP 18)

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• „This is particularly important. If the immigrants do not receive the same school education, then one has exactly the problem that at some point these pupils, children, young people do not know the German language, cannot integrate into society. Then the Germans will complain that no integration has taken place and then you would be back in this cycle.“ (TP 09)
• „Education is the be-all and end-all. This is the basis for them to be able to live here and to integrate themselves here; they must have the same school education.“ (TP 17)

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