The Case of Germany – Aussiedler StudentsThis essay makes us believe that Pontic Greeks are a more privileged immigrant group in Greece, however, this phenomenon is quite current and in other countries such as Germany (Voutira, 2004). According to Eftihia Voutira: “This practice stems from the fundamentally nationalist ideology according to which belonging to the state presupposes belonging to the nation. Like Germany, which is a better-known example, Greece includes the diaspora from the former Soviet Union among the members of the Soviet Union. the nation and gives them an axiomatic right of entry” (Voutira, 2004: 539). In Germany, there is a fairly common immigrant group among the Pontic Greeks, the Aussiedler, who are German returnees from Eastern Europe who, upon their return to Germany after the Cold War, had more than rights than other immigrants such as Turks and Greeks (Sainsbury, 2006). Research conducted in Germany has shown that Australian students perform better academically than other immigrant students (Entorf & Minoiu, 2005). It is obvious that the national identity of these two countries is very important, therefore, returnees are more privileged than other immigrants because nationalist ideology still exists in these countries (Voutira, 2004). After all, we can assume that Pontic Greeks are more likely to have better academic results than other immigrant students, the positive attitude of Greek society and politics, the racist and xenophobic attitude towards immigrants in this country, the ethnocentric structure of the school curriculum, the higher socio-economic status and cultural capital of the Pontic Greeks and the fact that in Germany, where national ideology is quite important as in Greece, returnee students tend to have...... middle of paper ......t peers (Damanakis, 2005). Additionally, we should It is worth mentioning that Pontic Greeks, as we mentioned previously, have a better economic status than other immigrants (Voutira, 2004). Furthermore, in Germany, an ethnocentric country like Greece (Voutira, 2004), repatriated students have better academic results than other immigrants (Entorf & Minoiu, 2005). Finally, although there is intercultural education in Greece, its character is superficial and it does not help immigrant students to overcome their problems (Kurdi & Papadopoulos, 2003). We can assume that, although this issue is complicated, for these reasons, Pontic Greek students are more likely to have better academic results than other immigrants. Their “Greekness” (Triantafyllidoy and Veikou, 2002) is very important in Greek ethnocentric society...