{"id":19780,"date":"2010-06-16T22:41:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T20:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=19780"},"modified":"2026-03-04T19:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:13:19","slug":"migrants-make-germany-dumb-says-central-banker-in-astonishing-outburst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/06\/16\/migrants-make-germany-dumb-says-central-banker-in-astonishing-outburst\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrants &#8216;make Germany dumb&#8217; says central banker in astonishing outburst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2010\/06\/11\/article-1285815-09FDB750000005DC-131_233x411.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Immigrants are making Germany &#8216;dumber&#8217;, according to a board member of the country&#8217;s central bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thilo Sarrazin claimed the &#8216;limited education&#8217; of immigrants &#8211; coupled with their high birth rate &#8211; meant Germans &#8216;are becoming dumber in a simple way&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said: &#8216;There&#8217;s a difference in the reproduction of population groups with varying intelligence.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is not the first time the 65-year-old member of the Bundesbank has caused controversy since he joined last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In October he described Muslim children as &#8216;underclass&#8217; citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;I don&#8217;t have to accept someone who lives off a state they reject, doesn&#8217;t properly take care of the education of his children-and keeps producing more little girls in headscarves,&#8217; Mr Sarrazin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;That goes for 70 percent of the Turkish and 90 percent of the Arabic population of Berlin.&#8217; He added that they were not fit for much other than &#8216;fruit and vegetable selling&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more: http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1285815\/Bundesbanks-Thilo-Sarrazin-Immigrants-making-Germany-dumber.html#ixzz0r3CPTbrJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigrants are making Germany &#8216;dumber&#8217;, according to a board member of the country&#8217;s central bank. Thilo Sarrazin claimed the &#8216;limited education&#8217; of immigrants &#8211; coupled with their high birth rate &#8211; meant Germans &#8216;are becoming dumber in a simple way&#8217;. He said: &#8216;There&#8217;s a difference in the reproduction of population groups with varying intelligence.&#8217; It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":783540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3148],"class_list":["post-19780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-germany","tag-sarrazin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}