The Case of Germany – Aussiedler Students This essay makes us believe that Pontic Greeks are a more privileged immigrant group in Greece, however, this phenomenon is quite common and in other countries such as Germany (Voutira, 2004). According to Eftihia Voutira: "This practice derives from the fundamentally nationalist ideology for which belonging to the state presupposes belonging to the nation. Like Germany, which is a better-known example, Greece includes the diaspora in the former Soviet Union among members of the nation and gives them an axiomatic right of entry" (Voutira, 2004:539). In Greece, there is a fairly common immigrant group among the Pontic Greeks, the Aussiedler, who are German repatriates from Eastern Europe who when they returned to Germany after the war During the Cold War, they had more rights than other immigrants such as Turks and Greeks (Sainsbury, 2006). Research conducted in Germany has shown that Aussiedler students perform better academically than other immigrant students (Entorf & Minoiu, 2005). It is obvious that national identity for these two countries is quite important, as a result, 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 performance 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 socioeconomic status and cultural capital of Pontic Greeks and the fact that in Germany, where national ideology is quite as important as in Greece, repatriated students tend to have... half of the paper ......t peers (Damanakis, 2005). Furthermore, we should mention, that Pontic Greeks, as we mentioned before, have a better economic status than other immigrants (Voutira, 2004). Furthermore, in Germany, which is an ethnocentric country like Greece (Voutira, 2004), repatriated students perform better academically than other immigrants (Entorf & Minoiu, 2005). Finally, although intercultural education exists in Greece, its character is superficial and does not help immigrant students overcome their problems (Kurdi & Papadopoulos, 2003). We can assume that, although the issue is complicated, for these reasons, students of Pontic Greeks are more likely to have better academic performance than other immigrants. Their "Greekness" (Triantafyllidoy & Veikou, 2002) is very important in Greek ethnocentric society.