GERM 1169 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Xenophobia, Pegida
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They think immigrants will affect their upper middle class jobs. They think islam is a problem to europe. The first interview says that they are against islam because they are fearful of islam coming to this part of germany. They all talk about people who supports are from the far right. They are people who are from middle to upper class. The muslim woman says her 4th generation kids aren"t accepted into germany. Churches turn off their lights when pegida come through because they don"t want to. Pegida protest the their internal problems aren"t being addressed but instead their. All think that the entire country is not racist but it"s the media is twisting truths focused is being turned to immigrants. Dresden has a low level of immigrants 3% and has low experience with them. Most the people who joined at first were from motorcycle gangs.
