Talk:Social issues in Germany

language
It would be good to get more native language sources. My german is pretty weak. Hopefully this one will turn out a little less contentiously than the Social issues in the United States article. -- Reboot

A good source of                                                                               info about Germany is the faz.com site. It's a kind of English version of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany's largest (conservative) daily. "F.A.Z. Weekly" also appears in print every Friday as a supplement of the International Herald Tribune (IHT), though in Germany only. "F.A.Z. Weekly" is partly written by American journalists who live in Germany. The rest are translations from the German daily. Also check out spiegel.de, Germany's biggest (leftish liberal) weekly magazine. You will find a link to news in English on the right side of the home page. - Heimdal 16:38, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I lived in Germany for a little while but my German is more than rusty. I on the Soziale Marktwirtschaft... I knew that...doh! Ah yes, I used to read both Zeitung and Der Spiegel.... Thanks for the tip! Also any issues you can point out would be helpful. - Reboot 18:21, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Der Spiegel has also just published a glossy "special" magazine in English language (its first one ever) entitled The Germans. It should also be available in the U.S. It covers pretty much every aspect of Germany - history, politics, the economy, culture, social issues! ... Regarding the "soziale Marktwirtschaft". I was perhaps too cocksure about the right spelling, because your version with the small "s" was probably correct. - Heimdal 12:28, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Removing the dispute because there is nothing on the "talk" page about what is disputed. Reboot 21:14, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Hate crimes
I just wanted to point out that the cited rise in hate crimes between 2003 and 2005 from 759 to 776 (with both numbers being to much of course - every (hate)crime is one too many) is statistically not significant being well within the 1-sigma variance range of 27.5. Therefore one cannot even say that there is actually a range, unless one can see a clear trend - for that one would need more than just three data points, namely 2003, 2004, 2005. If it were ten years with a more or less consistant rise, that would be more convincing. Hate crimes —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.1.163.36 (talk) 12:12, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Ostalagia and anti-Communism
Although on a wane, some older East Germans are reminiscent of life under communist rule in East Germany/the former GDR (1949-90). Ostalagia is a social issue when it comes to those ideolized communist-themed culture of the GDR, but not all Ostalagie is socio-political, just a cultural expression of things "Ost" or East they missed after reunification or yearn for to return. There are plenty of Germans who dislike communism from experiences under the GDR and others view GDR president Erich Honecker (1971-89) the worst German public figure since Adolf Hitler, mainly for corruption and suppression of human rights in the last days of the GDR. Honecker was a hardline Communist who was stubborn to take issues on social reform seriously until Fall 1989 when Honecker finally resigned from office. Communism was one of the three forces to ruined the German nation along with WWI-era militarism and WWII-era Nazism. + 71.102.7.77 (talk) 08:25, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Discrimination
For some reason, in a country where people identify with their ethnicity, we tend to use the word "racist", rather than use a phrase such as "assult on immigrants" or "prejudice". This word is overused and is not descriptive of every culture and identity in the world. Why is this so? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.198.45.13 (talk) 01:08, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Gay issues
I tagged the "Gay issues" section as out of date for a number of reasons: (1) Germany no longer has compulsory military service, (2) same-sex couples in registered partnerships do now enjoy the same tax benefits as married heterosexuals, (3) the sentence "Bavaria has declared its intent to sue against the recently introduced stepchild adoption" is surely out of date by now, (4) Westerwelle is no longer the opposition leader since his party is no longer in the Bundestag at all. The current "hot topic" in LGBT rights in Germany is marriage equality, i.e. replacing the registered partnership with full marriage. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 13:52, 29 June 2015 (UTC)