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Budge an inch and take an interest in Germany

How do the Germans see their multicultural society, especially in the light of current influx of migrants? I had an opportunity to sit down with my two good German friends and had a longer discussion with them on cultural differences and how to overcome the difficulties. Meet Lorena and Inga...

Punctuality and being straightforward

What words do you know to describe someone who is not German? … you say foreigners… Maybe people who are not accustomed to our culture and sometimes have difficulties to see things from the German perspective… I have a lot of friends who do not come from Germany and who have a...

Going Dutch

My name is Inna and I am a Ukrainian student in Düsseldorf since about a year. I actually came to Germany two years ago on an au-pair program and then decided to stay and was lucky enough to get accepted to a German University. It took me a while to get used...

The Ukrainians

Make Me A German – BBC Documentary

“We are going to live, work and play like ordinary Germans, because our challenge is … to become Germans…”

Videos

The best experience was to see Germany during the Football World Cup!

I am Marilya. I come from Belarus and study political science in Slovakia. I came to Germany as an exchange student. Originally I was supposed to study there for one semester but eventually I stayed for sixteen months. During this time I studied at the university of Siegen for one...

The Belarussian

Tag der Deutschen Einheit

Happy Day of German Unity Y’all!

Multicoolty

Dream came true

My name is Imran and I come from Pakistan. I remember we were really poor when I was in the seventh grade, so I would borrow a radio from my neighbours and climb the tallest building in the neighbourhood to listen to the Western Radio like Deutsche Welle. Already back...

The Pakistanis