{"id":622175,"date":"2025-12-09T12:50:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/622175\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:50:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:50:30","slug":"foreigners-in-germany-much-less-worried-about-right-wing-extremism-than-ethnic-germans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/622175\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreigners in Germany much less worried about right-wing extremism than ethnic Germans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Germans without a migrant history are considerably more afraid of right-wing extremism than migrants and foreigners living in the country.\n<\/p>\n

This is the main result of a study<\/a> released on December 6 by conservative think-tank Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) for which 3,000 people were polled.\n<\/p>\n

One third of the respondents were \u201cethnic\u201d Germans and another third Germans with a migrant background. The last third consisted of foreigners living in Germany.<\/p>\n

Almost three out of four ethnic Germans said they were \u201cafraid of right-wing extremism in Germany\u201d with 46 per cent saying they were very afraid and 28 per cent rather afraid.\n<\/p>\n

Conversely, only 66 per cent of Germans with a migrant background and 55 per cent of foreigners said they were afraid of right-wing extremism.\n<\/p>\n

People with Turkish and Russian roots were more likely to worry about right-wing extremism while people of Polish descendancy were much less likely.\n<\/p>\n

The study also showed that foreigners and migrants are much more likely to be prejudiced against Jews or homosexuals. with about a quarter of non-ethnic Germans exhibiting anti-Semitic or homophobic views, compared to only 4 per cent to 7 per cent of ethnic Germans.\n<\/p>\n

The study was conducted between October 2024 and January 2025.\n<\/p>\n

Commentators trace the difference in opinion of right-wing extremism to ethnic Germans\u2019 much higher consumption of German mainstream media, which regularly covers the supposed rise of the extreme right-wing.\n<\/p>\n

The media and political focus on the supposed dangers of right-wing extremism may even affect Germany\u2019s domestic security, according to the German Police Trade Union (DPolG).\n<\/p>\n

Speaking<\/a> with newspaper Welt yesterday, DPolG chairman Manuel Ostermann accused German politicians of setting the wrong security priorities: \u201cThose who believe right-wing extremism is the biggest threat to our free and democratic basic order are greatly mistaken. Because that threat is Islamism.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Ostermann added that even right-wing extremism itself was not being addressed decisively as politicians failed to speak about \u201cthe biggest hard-right group in Germany\u201d, the Turkish nationalist organisation Grey Wolves.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cHere I only see yawning silence. Politics is unable to address the problem sensibly because political correctness clearly takes precedence over everything else,\u201d Ostermann said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germans without a migrant history are considerably more afraid of right-wing extremism than migrants and foreigners living in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-622175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115689699593525425","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}