Political culture of the Germany

Germany is one of the most popular destinations for immigrants in the world. According to the statistic, there are 11.4 million people is a migrant, representing 13.7% of the population in Germany.

16-17th century, about 100000 protestants migrate to the territory of modern Germany.
In 1572 after the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, large numbers of Huguenots settled in what is now Germany

up to 12 million refugees of ethnic Germans, so-called "Heimatvertriebene" (German for "expellees", literally "homeland displaced persons") were forced to migrate from the former German areas, as for instance Silesia or East Prussia, to the new formed States of post-war Germany and Allied-occupied Austria, because of changing borderlines in Europe.
From the 1955-1973 in the East and West Germany existed guest worker program. According to this agreements German companies had the right to recruit foreign citizens to work in Germany. As a result, even though many did ultimately return to their countries of origin, several million of the recruited workers and their families ended up settling in Germany permanently. Nevertheless, the government continued to encourage the public perception of the arriving immigrants as temporary guest workers (Gastarbeiter) and for many years made little provision for their integration into German society.

his famous "95 Theses" to the door of the church of Wittenberg, which was the beginning of the Reformation in Western Christianity.
This led to the formation of a new Lutheran church community. Luther is considered the father of Protestantism.
Today, Protestantism is very common in Europe and America, Asia and Africa. There are 345 million followers in the world

Protestantism divides all-Christian ideas about God, about the immortality of the soul, hell and heaven, rejecting only the Catholic idea of purgatory.
In Protestantism there are no prayers for the dead, worship of various saints, relics and icons. There are also no monasteries. And the Bible is the only source of doctrine.

characterized by deep apoliticality of its citizens. This was the result of excessive "politicization" of the population during the Nazi period, disillusionment with previous ideals, which gave rise to a negative attitude towards everything related to politics. Politics began to be viewed not as a potential business of the entire people, but as a business of the political elite.

Similar sentiments were manifested both among the older generation and among young people. For the latter, the orientation towards the values ​​of the post-industrial society became especially noticeable, the fundamental idea of ​​which is the free self-determination of a person and the idea of ​​the quality of life. This was facilitated by the extremely successful economic development of the FRG.

This led to a significant expansion of the layers
population with average income. In the GDR at this time, a socialist political culture, although the population as a whole remained indifferent to new political ideals and values. The interests of people were confined to the interests of family, friends, acquaintances at work.