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With all immodesty, I'm a perfectly integrated foreigner in Germany.
I speak German without a thick American accent, I voluntarily opted for state health insurance and, unlike many Germans, I even willingly pay my TV licence fees.
I have a German wife and a half-German child. There's just one thing I won't have for the foreseeable future: a German passport.
That's not because I don't want one – just the opposite. After almost 14 years in this country, I'd gladly become a German citizen. I would have eagerly voted in the Berlin state election last month. But I don't care to sacrifice my American passport for the privilege. Fifty years after the first Turks came to Germany, there are millions of people here in a similar situation.