The German Society

Shameka Clark

LEH 300

Prof. B Murdaco

German Society

 

            Today I will be discussing the German society. Germany has a population rate of 81,305,856 as of July 2012; according to CIA- The World Factbook. The Major cities in which German’s population live in are, Hamburg, Cologne, Berlin (Capital) and Munich. With a large population, Germany has a few ethnic groups in their society. The German society is made up of mostly about eight ethnic groups. Those ethnic groups are Turkish, Italian, Russian, Greek, Polish, Spanish, Serbo- Croatian and German. German is the leading ethnic group at a high rate of 91.5%. Even with a mix of ethnic groups, the main language that is spoken in Germany is German. Due to the many ethnic groups in German, there are about four different religions the Germans have to choose from. The religions that are mostly follow by the German’s are Roman Catholic (by 34% of Germans), Muslim (by 3.7 % of Germans), Protestant (by 34 % of Germans) and other faith (by 28.3% of Germans). As you can see Protestant and Roman Catholic are the two faiths that are follow the most and by the same amount of Germans. As time pass and more people born and or move to Germany, there will be many more changes to the German society, and with changes new facts and data will be available.

                                                     

Quote by Nietzsche

Shameka Clark

LEH 300

Prof. B. Murdaco

 

        ----“ Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life’s nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in “another” or “better” life”. – Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy, p.23, Walter Kaufmann trasl.

The interpretation I made from this quote is the idea that Christianity was presented to be determined one way as faith for the believers, but in essence the roots of its practice revealed the same issues faced in society without religion. The deception involved with Christianity was unknown to those who didn’t follow.

      To me this quote stills apply today because many people who follow Christianity believe that the practice of their religion is the only way of living. Meanwhile the negativity revealed by the recent behavior of those who follow and teach the religion has shown they are or can be just as bad. The fact that you have fundamental ideas based on a following doesn’t mean you will be exempt from the issue’s that plague our society. Faith can sometimes be used to cover up or masked many issues.