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Angela Merkel Bürokratopoly

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Angela Merkel Is a great world leader, through overcoming her way of thinking. By growing up in Former East Germany (Angela Merkel’s, 2015) before the wall fell under communist regime. Where she was being controlled in every aspect of life with harsh punishments if not followed to fullest extent; which I might include are not even imaginable by todays standards. "Unlike the common board game Monopoly, the communist Germany played "Bürokratopoly." (Leveille, 2014). This game is different to Monopoly for Monopoly is to get filthy rich, Bürokratopoly has a different tack. “Money has absolutely no role in this game because money in the GDR didn't play any role” (Leveille, 2014). GDR is dissidents in communist East Germany. "What was really important …show more content…

Communism was built for the government to protect and take care of the people; but the people who practiced communism executed wrongly. The people that practiced communism could almost be put in the category of sadistic. They ended up taking away the freewill of people. They tried to control everything you said, they even tried to control people’s thoughts, but they couldn’t. The way they executed these ways were very grotesque, as if all the people were spies, turning neighbor against neighbor. If you were caught listening or talking about anything American you would be thrown in jail. The person who told on you would be very highly rewarded. Babies would be taken from their mothers and said to be dead, but they would be given to childless couples who were prominent members of the communist regime. Kids would be ripped away from their families if their mother was being perceived as committing a crime against the communist state, the mother would then go to prison, the children would go to a state run orphanage. The government which was doing this couldn’t understand the problem, for they supplied the people with food, a place to live, jobs, equal pay for all, and everybody was equal. At the time they didn’t understand that communism took away the people’s freewill and wasn’t helpful as it was meant to be, for it actually caused more …show more content…

This decision was very unprecedented and unexpected for the German culture is typically a light skinned race. With being dark skinned you were automatically assumed not to be German even if you were born and raise as German. With bringing in these Syrian refugees it was also a very dramatic change in the economy. For these people did not speak the language nor did they live the same way. Angela Merkel still decided to make this decision for the German population is aging too fast, so by bringing in these Syrian refugees it replenishes the population with new and younger people. Seeing why this decision makes sense is obvious at this time, but in 10-20 years the change will be understood (if these refugees are integrated into society). Since its not understood at this time it split the people into two categories: supporters and non-supporters. Supporters would take the Syrian refugees in and care for them. Non-supporters would not take them in, in fact they would burn down the building the refugees would be living in. It caused a lot of trouble, for seeing why they need the refugees would later be

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