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Germany has integrated immigrants from all over Europe and beyond, a large Turkish community, Italians, Syrians, and from many other European and non-European countries, so it is in fact heading towards more diversity instead of more homogeneity.

What you could say is that this trend is counter-acted by stronger, general cultural unification trend due to mass media (the Internet, mostly) and the influence of large, multi-national corporations. That trend is global, though, and has nothing to do with Germany in particular.

That Germany is a very young country is also obviously true, as it was united only in 1871. The fact that Germany as a nation played no substantial role in world politics earlier, but only varying fractions who were often opposed to each other and had many wars among each other, was in the end one of the many catalysts of WW1 and WW2. But that's another story, of course.

I agree with you if what you want to say is that the fact that Germany is very young has no particular bearing on its current economy. I don't see the connection either. But the rest of your post is moot.





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