The reporting on Mesut Özil's withdrawal from the German national football team provides very current evidence: journalism must improve. And only when the media fulfil their integrative function can the ability of a society to integrate be increased.
Wherever people meet in Germany at the moment, sooner or later the conversation turns to the same mix of topics: Özil, football, racism, integration, Turks, Germans, German Turks, "the" media - and ultimately to an unspeakable story, much of which is disturbing, irritating and astonishing. The good thing about it: This is precisely taiwan rcs data what provides a strong impetus to think about some things anew, not only in Germany, but also in Switzerland, for example. There we experienced a partially similar debate: the national players Xherdan Shaqiri and Granit Xhaka (as well as Stephan Lichtsteiner), who come from Kosovo, provoked their fans in the match against Serbia by holding out the Greater Albanian "double-headed eagle symbol" to them as a sign of their triumph. As different as the contexts are, the core topic is comparable: how national does a national team have to be? How Swiss, how German are people with a migration background? Is there even an obligation to identify with just one homeland? What is the state of integration? How do media address the challenges and life between different backgrounds.