re: #99 Dr Lizardo

AfD’s stronghold is in the former DDR - and that’s still worlds away from the former West Germany, despite two decades of unification. It’s a problem, quite honestly, in a good many parts of the former Soviet bloc.

West Germans have been living, working and attending school with immigrants since the 60’s. Although not always models of tolerance and integration, they have generally learned to accept and get along with their “fellow citizens with a background of migration” as they are referred to officially.

In former East Germany, they knew only guest workers from Vietnam or North Korea who lived in segregated barracks and were sent home after their work contracts expired. Or the arrogant scions of third-world dictators and their henchmen sent over on student exchange programs.

None of this prepared the people for the society they were annexed into in 1989.