The question of migration and the integration of immigrants into German culture is also of particular interest in today's cultural and political sphere, as a total of around 1.7 million asylum seekers were living in Germany at the end of 2018 (Gaul et al.) and, according to the Federal Agency for Civic Education, 20. In 2018, 8 million (25.5% of the total population) people with a migration background lived in Germany, of which 9.9 million (12.1%) were foreigners and 10.9 million (13.3%) Germans with a migration background ("Bevölkerung mit Migrationshintergrund"). The famous statement by Chancellor Merkel "We can do it" in the face of the refugee crisis in 2015 brought the controversial issues of a German culture of welcome and the integration of foreigners into German culture back into today's debate ("Sommerpressekonferenz von Bundeskanzlerin Merkel"). 

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