从20世纪50年代开始，西欧国家迎来了以客籍劳工为主体的人口迁移浪潮，虽然在1973年第一次石油危机之后停止了对客籍劳工的招募，但是家庭团聚政策的实施使得土耳其裔原本的工作需求扩大为住房、教育、福利的需求。土耳其裔劳工在20世纪60年代后期成为了联邦德国客籍劳工的主要组成部分，同时土耳其裔劳工及其家人希望获得国籍诉求未能得到德国政府的重视。面对以土耳其裔为代表的少数族群在德国社会中产生的语言、文化的融入问题，有人把这归因于伊斯兰教与基督教之间的冲突。笔者认为“文明冲突论”的出现并不能有效的解释这种融入问题的产生，冲突产生的根源并不是基督教文明与伊斯兰文明之间的矛盾，而主要来自于德国社会内部的土耳其裔与德国本土人经济层面上的差距，文化中的语言、信仰、生活习惯的差异加剧了这种隔阂。

Since from the 1950s, there had been the migration to the Western Europe which been mainly made of the guest workers. Though The Federal Republic of Germany stopped the program of recruiting workers because of the world oil crisis, the family reunification policy made the demand of jobs enlarge to the demand of housing, education and welfare. When in the last of 1960s, Turkish workers had become the main component of the guest workers, and the government of the Federal Republic of Germany could not work out the demand of citizenship. According to the estrangement of languages and cultures in society, some suppose the cause to the conflict between Christianity and Islam. I suppose that the appearance of “The Clash of Civilizations” cannot be the explication of the problems, the source of estrangements are not the conflict between Christianity and Islam. It mainly because of the economic status and the discrepancy of culture such as language, religion, habits and customs intensify the estrangement.