This GIF comes from Huseyin’s dream scene, in which he imagines himself about to receive his German passport. The man behind the desk is the first thing the audience sees, stamping away an obscene amount of documents with incredible speed. What the audience sees right away is one of several German stereotypes that play out in Huseyin’s dream, others including the requirements that he eat pork at least twice a week and watch Tatort religiously, his wife suddenly wearing traditional German dress, and his reflection having a mustache akin to Hitler’s. The stereotype that the GIF above uses is of course the idea that Germans are ridiculously efficient and absolutely love bureaucracy. All of these stereotypes are held by Huseyin in his mind, emerging in this dream as a sort of reflection of his fear of losing his Turkish identity. He is afraid that he will have to give up the things he considers make him a Turk and replace them with things he believes will make him a full German. Both the GIF above and the scene from which it comes does a great job of making the audience critically think, “What does it mean to be German? Are there a set of characteristics that all Germans have?” To which the answer is “einfach nein” (simply no).