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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the benefit of doing this? You aren't going to move to Europe.[/quote]

Why do you assume they wouldn’t?  My kids have German passports in addition to their US passports, which we got in significant part so they would have an option to live/work there as adults. My college student is seriously considering it for after graduation. [/quote]

Don't be crazy. College kids make grandiose plans. Your kid isn't moving to Germany. People move to North America from Europe not the other way around. My parents were born in Croatia.  I grew up around lots of Croatians. Nobody's kids moved there if they were not born there. Would be extremely rare.[/quote]

lol comparing germany to Croatia from 30 years ago. I am of Pakistani origin and we used to make fun of Pakistanis who immigrated to germany as the underclass but in the past 5 years that has changed and the diaspora is moving to EU over the US. We work with UNHCR and refugees all wanted to move to US or canada. no longer and I've traveled through Europe and xenophobia and racism on the ground is being vastly over reported in the media and I cant 'pass' for white like my spouse and kids but europeans in big cities aren't any more or less racist than americans. UK s different, white people there, especially in smaller areas are very much fed up of foreigners but its better to be South Asian than eastern europeans and I suspect they also dont like americans... these are old people though, there aren't any English living in London and Surrey and other nearby areas anymore anyways. [/quote]

I have not put the discrimination in the same way, but many people in the US 100% do not believe that Eastern Europeans are discriminated against in Western Europe and sometimes (often?) treated as non-white or at least other. Eastern European migrant workers in UK are treated like Mexican/central Americans in the US. Former East Germans get the side-eye too in Germany. My understanding is that my cousins did better socially working in Germany than in the UK. Funny that so many people think discrimination and racism are solely an American thing. It is just different in different countries. And yes, the right seems to be growing more powerful everywhere.[/quote]

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