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Every life is shaped by decisions, if not just a series of decisions. As humans, since we all live in communities, we can try to cheat our way through life without making any decisions of our own, which would be a very convenient way if it worked, but then we have to accept that others make the necessary decisions for us. In any case, even with the attempt to avoid making decisions, we will become a burden on everyone — there is no shortage of examples in our republic!

What's really bad about it is that several ideologies are now campaigning for individuals to refuse to make personal decisions, starting with individual, completely antiquated religions - God's will - through all kinds of totalitarianism, the "welfare state" fanatics to modern considerations that people as a mere algorithm.

And so it is no longer surprising today that even as a "real existing" person (the trappings surrounding mind and soul) you can really be anything you want: man, woman or both - simultaneously or alternately - or nothing at all or maybe just something in between. The much-exploited term for this is one's own identity.

Everyone is truly allowed to want to be whatever they are, but Please don't do this solely at the expense of others (!) and more importantly, the whole thing with a certain commitment (!), which can be classified halfway for the other fellow human beings who are otherwise in the world.

Because these fellow human beings must ideally be able to base their own decisions on something and are usually overwhelmed with, let's call them cautiously and non-bindingly, "changeable beings" and thus also with their own decisions.

It is often countered that we humans all play several roles at the same time and that these change depending on the situation. That is also true, but even here the other people have a right to know what the other person is or would like to be.

The wife would like to know what she is looking at with her supposed husband: an "Italian lover", an avowed lesbian, or a toddler with full diapers. Because this has a direct impact on their own decisions, and should cause confusion at the latest when there is a surprising role change.

I could give other and much more drastic examples that testify that while human identity problems or role-playing games are a perfectly normal thing, they are normally — and this is important for every society — only through the constant respective individual decisions and resulting societal norms for all reasonably comprehensible and therefore also manageable.

We all have to make decisions, 24 hours a day, every day. And our decisions not only have consequences for us, but also influence the decisions of our fellow human beings quite enormously, whether we notice it ourselves or not.

And in a very similar way to our gender identity, we all feel the same way about our “state” identity, because here in Central Europe, in addition to “being German “also German citizenship.

One is usually born into “Germanness” and this is referred to – rather frowned upon nowadays – as German ethnicity, which, on closer inspection, is belonging to one of the many German-speaking ethnic groups. Whether one then also belongs to a German ethnic group is shown by whether one not only recognizes their religion, culture and language, but also lives it oneself. And that this doesn't have to be a "one-way street" or even a "dead end" is shown by the many German "Kowalski", "Boatengs" and whatever they are now called, of which we Germans are all very proud without any ifs or buts.

And for most of us, being German is not a particular problem. It also corresponds very well with German citizenship, which we usually accept without much thought - just as one has one's biological gender entered in the passport without much thought.

The situation is different with German citizenship, especially if you don't consider yourself a German ethnic group and would never have thought of wanting to be an "ethnic German" because you don't like their culture and religion, but nonetheless , and wants to be a German citizen out of full conviction, because the German state - as the representative of all German citizens - offers the best possible contract and also signs it with the citizenship to be awarded. However, this presupposes that, as a German citizen, you not only sign the contractual conditions, but also fulfill them.

This clearly and naturally includes command of the German language (!), because this is the basis of all contracts, obligations, agreements and all communication with one another. In addition, there is a clear commitment to our democracy and our free democratic basic order as well as our open society and we now live accordingly. But this should be out of the question, especially if you consciously profess this for a "very special" citizenship!

And as with the decision about one's own gender, one should ultimately be sure if one decides consciously and contrary to "one's own biology" for something else! Otherwise the whole thing turns into a pure farce, especially if you - each of us - don't make a decision or don't really make a decision.

And it becomes unbearable for everyone else and even existentially dangerous for society as a whole if you not only don't make a decision, but also do the opposite several times by accepting German citizenship, then renewing the original one again and, because If you cannot or do not want to decide, apply for another one to be on the safe side.

This highly personal "identity problem" is then only topped by not only rejecting the German language in Germany, but also not liking European culture at all, detesting Christianity in general, getting angry at the many Germans in Germany and then permanently complains that you are neither understood nor taken seriously by others.

That's why you decide! It doesn't matter how, but you decide!

"If you look for an identity you find inequality. If you look for similarities you separate one truth from another."

Giannina Braschi, United States of Banana (2011)

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