Imagine spending these last 40 years in Germany. You see a relatively homogenous nation become one in which a quarter of the population have a migrant background. It absorbs, at short notice, a much poorer country of 16mn people called the German Democratic Republic. It grows out of pacifism to wield lethal force in Kosovo and beyond. Through all this social change, which should rock the political system, you enjoy a scarcely believable level of civic stability. Olaf Scholz is just the fourth chancellor you have known since October 1982.
想象你在德国度过过去40年。你看到一个相对同质的国家变成一个四分之一人口有移民背景的国家。它在事先没什么准备的情况下吸收了拥有1600万人口、贫穷得多的德意志民主共和国。它以和平主义为立国之本，却向科索沃乃至更遥远的地方派遣可以造成伤亡的部队。在经历所有这些本应撼动政治制度的社会变化的同时，你却享受到难以置信的公民稳定。奥拉夫•朔尔茨(Olaf Scholz)只是自1982年10月以来第四位德国总理。
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