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There’s a new website out there
that helps Germans and migrants meet and talk about life. It’s
an amazing website. I remember how tough it was for me to
integrate as a child because I mainly spoke Spanish. I grew up
in El Paso. Back then, there was no internet so I never could
have imagined something like this website. It’s wonderful how
many people are using the site. While thousands of migrants were
pouring into Germany at the height of the refugee crisis, a man
named Lasse Landt of Berlin realized he hadn’t met a single one
of them. The tech entrepreneur pretty much thought everyone in
Germany was paddling in the same boat so he teamed up with
Syrian programmer Khaled Alaswad, and they created “Let’s
Integrate.”
The website allows Germans and
new immigrants get to know one another and learn about each
others cultures. Users choose a day and time to meet, wait until
someone accepts the invitation, and then they get together and
talk. When they arrive at the place they’re supposed to meet,
they hold up their hands forming an “L” and “I” with the thumb
and index fingers, a signal for “Let’s Integrate.”
Wow! How awesome! The
conversations they have are better than the “none” they were
having before, and it helps immigrants adjust to their new
surroundings and cultural differences. Anything helping Germans
and refugees understand one another better is good. What a wonderful new website. I
think this is so great and writing this article made my day a
very happy one.
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