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| The '''Germans''' are a gay bunch of arse holes hahahahahahahahhahahahahahah! | |||
| The '''Germans''' (]: ''die Deutschen'') are people of ''German descent,'' i.e. ones associating themselves with the heritage of German culture. | |||
| The concept of who is a ''German'' has varied. Until the ], it denoted the speakers of ], and was a much more distinct concept than that of ''],'' the land of the Germans. The ] and the ] had already split off and shaped separate national identities. The German Swiss, however, retained their cultural identity as ''Germans,'' although a specific kind of Germans. | |||
| In the 19th century, after the ] and the fall of the ], ] and ] would emerge as two opposite poles in Germany, trying to re-establish the divided German nation. In 1871, Prussia attracted even ] at the founding of her ], and the multi-ethnical Austrian ] was effectively excluded from the attempt to create a German ]. From this and on, the connotation of ''Germans'' came to shift gradually from ''"speakers of the German language"'' to ''"]"'' and today ''"nationals of the Federal Republic of Germany".'' | |||
| Before the second world war, most Austrians considered themselves ''Germans'' and denied the existence of a distinct Austrian ethnic identity. It was only after the German defeat in ], that this began to change. After the world war, the Austrians increasingly saw themselves as a ] distinct from the other German-speaking areas of Europe, and today no more than 10% of the German-speaking Austrians see themselves as part of a larger German nation ''("]")'' linked by blood or language. In most references concerning the population or demographic of Austria, however, the vast majority of the Austrian population is generally classified as German-Austrians, ethnic-Germans, and in some cases simply German. | |||
| ] form an important minority group in several ] and ] countries (], ], ]) and the ]) as well as in ] and in southern ]. | |||
| In recent years, the German speaking countries of Europe have been confronted with demographic changes due to decades of immigration. These changes have lead to renewed debates, especially in the Federal Republic of ''],'' about who should be considered German. Non-ethnic Germans now make up more than a 8% of the German population, mostly the descendants of guest workers who arrived in the 1960s and 70s. Turks, Italians, Greeks, and people from Southeast Europe form the largest single groups of non-ethnic Germans in the country. Germany is now also home to thousands of non-white and mixed race people as well. While most non-ethnic Germans in the country remain non-citizens, thousands of other now have German passports. The majority of Germans continue to hold the view that a person require at least one German parent to be considered "German" but this view at least allows some visible minorities to be considered German, especially children of mixed heritage. Recent ] and the increased visibility of non-ethnic German minorities would seem to indicate that the concept of who is a German is slowly moving away from one that centered entirely on ethnicity and heritage to a concept based | |||
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