Interesting to read--best of luck to Aral. Nationalism seems to be spreading all over Europe, so I can understand why "where to go next" is a tough decision.
Where do you see nationalism increasing in germany?
When you look, how people are treated from other nations, than I see very much undercover nationalism. Of course, we are still at a low level, because of our history and because the media does not enforce nationalism like in other countries ... but I think, that we can not take our own attitude and think that everybody has it.
I see nationalism rising again in many countries in Europe and in the world today. In the same time, egoism is rising (what partially counteracts to nationalism, partially reinforces patriotism).
I think, we see the age of egoism rising today. What it will end up, who knows?
http://news.yahoo.com/germany-grapples-rise-anti-foreigner-m...
Edit--video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZFmnz4ROEo
But it makes sense that people from other countries would not be able to pick up on such subtle clues.
Less trivial, but Germany is one of the major forces controlling EU's border policies - and that's a wider form of nationalism and protectionism that pretty directly costs lives.
Political forces like AFD and pegida (legida, ...) aren't exactly a sign of receding nationalism either.
In Germany's behavior within the E.U. and open desire to rule Europe?
In their characterizing of Southern countries (even in popular media read by millions, etc) with terms used in the past to describe Jews? (from "lazy" and "pests" to "traitors" and "PIIGS").
In the frequent verbal attacks immigrants from Greece (for example) face in Germany, in shops and public spaces?
Citation needed. It's Germany's money that's bankrolling the bailouts, and as far as I can tell (from quite some distance away, mind you), the public opinion is less "We need Lebensraum! Let's take over southern Europe!" and more "Fund Greece & co with my tax money? NOPE NOPE NOPE."
First, it's not just about the current bailout. It's a pattern of behavior going back to the eighties, and especially evident after the re-union with East Germany, and it has to do with control of EU directives and policies (including, but not limited to, monetary policies).
(Or rather, one could say, it's a pattern of behavior going back to the first and second world wars, as the whole European Union, as an initiative was thought up to constrain future German foul-play ( http://www.amazon.com/The-New-World-Perry-Anderson/dp/184467... )).
>It's Germany's money that's bankrolling the bailouts, and as far as I can tell
Not really. In fact they could care less about Greece or the South in general, it's about saving their banks and using tax-payer money to siphon it to the German (and French etc) equivalent of Wall Street:
http://www.economist.com/node/18560535
http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2013/11/11/dirty-secret-euro-zo...
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-09-12/is-germany-r...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-06-11/crisis-sav...
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/germany-profiting...
> In the frequent verbal attacks immigrants from Greece (for example) face in Germany, in shops and public spaces?
I've lived in Stralsund, Berlin and now Hannover, and i'm extremely surprised that such a thing would happen. Have you seen that personally?
I've had it told to me by several people that migrated during the crisis, and have read several articles on it on Greek media.
Here's an example from an older article on similar issue (but with a happy ending):
Elsa Athanasiou, owner of Athos, complained to authorities that she has started receiving letters and phone calls saying things like “Go back to your stinking country!” or “Pigs, go home!”
http://eu.greekreporter.com/2015/03/22/germans-protect-greek...
Similar to the things I've heard. But there's other stuff for other ethnicities too, the popular press headlines for people from Southern AND eastern europe, the anti-islam protests that saw thousands of people marching, frequent attacks on Jewish establishments, etc.
Here's another metric:
(...) according to a 2013 study by the Technical University of Berlin, in 14,000 hate-mail letters, emails and faxes sent over 10 years to the Israeli embassy in Berlin and the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Professor Monika Schwarz-Friesel found that 60% were written by educated, middle-class Germans, including professors, lawyers, priests and university and secondary school students. Most, too, were unafraid to give their names and addresses – something she felt few Germans would have done 20 or 30 years ago.
What about Canada, how are they fairing now days?