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3 Jul 2019 Conversations with Tyler Eric Kaufmann on Immigration, Identity, and the Limits of Individualism
“Intermarriage is going to be the route. It’s not going to be Turks within the Turkish community moving away from Islam, but I think intermarriage is a route through which the offspring will then be relatively secular.”
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- 3 Jul 2019
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…What’s your assessment for Turkish assimilation in Germany? Because a lot of the Turks have been there, now, quite a while. Yeah, I would think that long term, they will intermarry. If you look at Turkey itself, it’s actually a reasonably secular country, and the birth rates have come down quite a bit. Intermarriage is going to be the route. It’s not going to be Turks within the Turkish community moving away from Islam, but I think intermarriage is a route through which the offspring will then be relatively secular. I do think, even though those rates are not high now, I think they probably will increase. That would be my projection. I know this is a hard one to call, but what is your prediction for the Syrian refugees now living in Germany?…
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