Racism poses a threat to Germany's democracy
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A new report highlights that not only violence but also structural and everyday racism remain major issues in German society. The nation's first antiracism commissioner called for an end to years of ignoring the problem.
"Racism is not an abstract concept, but a painful reality for many people in our society," Reem Alabali-Radovan said on Wednesday, presenting the government's first annual report on racism in Germany. Although Germany does not as of yet have a standard legal definition of racism, the new report utilized the definition given by a 2021 government study on integration, which holds that racism is "beliefs and practices that are based on the systematic devaluation and exclusion as well as disadvantage of certain groups of the population, to whom biologically or culturally constructed, unchangeable and allegedly inferior characteristics and behaviors are attributed."
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