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The DeanBeat: How Berlin has become more tolerant than Trump’s America

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Maybe they should move the Statue of Liberty to Berlin. Seventy-two years after the fall of Adolf Hitler, the capital city of the former Nazi Germany could very well be more tolerant than many people in the United States.

I felt that this week during my conversations in Berlin at Casual Connect Europe, the game event that drew more than 1,800 people this week. This city is celebrating openness and diversity, as part of its attempt to draw more talent from all over the world to its startups.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.