I see this on this sub all the time, I think mainly from anglosaxon people (canada etc) who equalizes german passport/citizenship with being a german. I get the reasoning of it , but at the same time I don’t agree since it’s much more complex than that.
Especially compared to other countries, I haven’t really seen this discussion(exept for USA of course, which only have their native americans as counter example).
Even in Germany there is 5 or 6(if you count the roma, but they are in many countries so more tricky) different recognized german minority groups https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationale_Minderheiten_in_Deutschland that aren’t the classical german-german. Then you of course have germans in other countries like switzerland or austria
Maybe because the history with nazis and then DDR, people don’t even want to make a discintion between ethnic and cultural origins and citizenship?
by csasker