Why theres only german people attending Klimastreik?

fwiw i think it's also a visibility thing. most immigrant families I know in neukölln or wedding are dealing with way more immediate issues like finding a bezahlbare wohnung or navigating the ausländerbehörde, so climate activism feels like a luxury concern. the fridays for future crowd at brandenburger tor is super white and middle-class, which doesn't exactly scream "come join us" to someone who's been waiting 6 months for a termin at the burgeramt. there's a group called "klima ohne grenzen" that does multilingual actions near hermannplatz sometimes, way more mixed crowd there

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i mean it's a specific demographic thing, not really about who cares more. the klimastreik crowd in berlin tends to skew young and student-heavy, which is already a pretty german scene in public protests. plus a lot of immigrant communities i know are more focused on work or family obligations on fridays, not standing around at brandenburger tor for hours. check out the protests from groups like "end of the road for the climate" or some of the migrant-led environmental collectives, they exist but they're smaller and not as visible.

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honestly i think it's partly about how protests get organized. most klimastreik stuff is run through university networks and leftist social circles that are already pretty homogenous. there are groups like turkish mothers against air pollution or the migrant climate justice collective that do their own actions, but they don't always link up with the big fridays for future demos. also ngl the vibe at brandenburger tor can feel a bit exclusive, like you need to know the right people or be on certain whatsapp groups. if u want a more mixed crowd, check out the "klima & migration" meetups at yaam sometimes

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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