Various studies over the past thirty years have been accomplished.....to generally say there is an acceptance of foreigners issue brewing. I noted part of the numbers talk in a ARD public TV piece (here).
The way this is broke down? Around 22.7-percent of west Germans believe there is a foreigner problem. In the eastern part of the country....it goes up to 38.4 percent.
Why? There are various arguments given. Some relate to the DDR period (1945 to 1990).....some relate to West Germany having a large assortment in the 1950s/1960s of migrant workers to help German industry expand.
You can make the case in Frankfurt today....around 50-percent of the city is of some migrant background. Statistical numbers of Offenbach (the Frankfurt suburb to the SE)? Around one out of every three residents are a first-generation immigrant/migrant.
I would offer the view that the western Germans simply got used to foreigners in the mix and have had to 'deal' with it.
The eastern Germans? Maybe in forty years, they will eventually catch up with the western folks and their mentality.
This leading presently to a crisis of sorts? There's a belief that far-right-wing tendencies are presently existing, but the polling numbers show less of a problem as compared to five years ago.
I would suggest that there is a concept called 'getting-stirred-up' by pub chatter, social media biased BS, propaganda (brewed-up from beyond the German border), and evolving changes in society.
People that have work and are kept busy....tend to be happy and avoid whining to a degree. People that are marginally employed, making less money, and continually angry.....tend to look for faults in their life or society.
The division of east and west still a problem? No doubt, and that probably will exist for the next hundred years.
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