German Culture: Germany

Germany: Germany as a rule doesn't allow immigrants who receive German citizenship to keep their old passports, except for EU and Swiss nationals or citizens of countries like Iran that don't allow people to surrender their nationality, according to Times Colonist. Now, Germany's incoming government is promising to end the requirement for German-born children of immigrant parents to choose just one nationality between their 18th and 23rd birthdays and BERLIN - Turkish or German? For millions of immigrants' sons and daughters who grew up speaking German, immersed in German culture, yet feeling the emotional pull to ancestral roots, it's been a tough choice. The rule has been most onerous to the more than 3 million-strong Turkish community which sprang up in the postwar boom years when Germany was hungry for labour because of many immigrants' reluctance to weaken ties with their parents' homeland. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.