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Someone I used to skate with, who's 100% Irish, married a Mexican American but still re-posts wildly racist things about immigrants. Her mother was an illegal immigrant in the 80's. She's pretty fucking stupid too though. Not the mom-she's nice.
i see that in germany also quite often. old white motherfuckers with wives from brazil or thailand that are super racist.
i learned racists are not above being occasionally nice, spending time with or even fucking people they deem to be below them, as long as they feel like they dominate.
in germany, what you hear old slightly racist people say a lot when they talk about germans with any other heritage never refer to them as germans. if there's any information out that you are even part something else, then you are "the polish/turkish/russian" i am 1/4 north african and when it comes up people immediately start the fucking inquisition, if i was in algeria, if i was in morrocco. when i tell them no, i don't even speak a bit of it, they are super disappointed and tell me i'm out of touch with my north african roots. they ask me if i am thankful for being brought up in germany. i am practically african for them, lol. i am white as fuck.
seriously any people of colour, stay clear of rural germany. especially eastern germany. keep to the big cities. just a psa.
look, i'm talking about non urban areas and older people. that shit will be gone in 10-20 years, but yeah, the east is pretty crazy. you are good in most cities though. racists are everywhere in the world but in germany they bunch in the east, center and parts of teh south. i may have made it sound worse than it is from how much i dislike these people.
the cities are pretty progressive overall. there's a big divide with the older generation. the boomers kind of didn't see it coming, even though they were the ones marrying people from other countries. suddenly there's tons of afro-germans, germans of turkish heritage, in hamburg especially lots of people with roots in portugal or korea. the problem is even though they were born in germany to one german and one foreign parent, they aren't necessarily considered german by default.
basically, we don't have that culture here to adopt migrants into citizenship. like when you get born on us ground you are us citizen, right? correct me if i'm wrong.
in germany, it's all about your parents, if they are not 100% german, then you are considered what ever the other part is. culturally people will see you as the other. you have no automatic right to a german passport. there's people here that were born here to basically 2. generation immigrant offspring and they will still be counted as something, something. generally the less european you are the harder it will be to get a work allowance. so imagine your grandpa came to the us, somehow perservered, somehow built a family despite staying illegal, all generations after him will stay illegal, you are still illegal, even though you only speak english and have no clue about your grandfathers country. that's germany basically. and yeah we took a lot of refugees in but we basically put them in containers to rot outside our cities or use them as cheap laborers because minimum wage doesn't apply to them. that is, if they are allowed to work. usually when you come in here as refugee, you are not allowed to work at first. but since people still need money they of course start to sell drugs and stuff.
if you are american or english or swedish or french you will get a german passport no problemo after minimum stay and with no speaking ability. if you come from anywhere in the east or africa you better perfect that german and work like a slave for nothing. if you are good at soccer anything is possible here.
the problem is that racism is normalized. we even had a snack until the mid nineties that was pretty much called "nigger's kiss" albeit in german ("negerküsse"). nowadays the german n-word is mostly a no-go, but some people will use any occasion to rave about "negerküsse" and it always seems to me that they just enjoy using the word innocently.
for a lot of germans racism is also normal, they will for example say that they get treated like shit for being white when they are in asia, so why should they be cool to anyone here. simple minded thinking like that is surprising common here. in the villages, that is.
honestly white standard americans probably will have a good time here, pretty much any dork will try to impress you or show you something america related like a fucking route 66 sign...
I spent a lot of time in Berlin, Kassel, and Liepzig. got in to a scrap or two with some locals.
I get super dark when in the sun. I'm Italian and Irish but summertime I could be considered Mexican or some Latino type. My boy and I were in a park in Kassel just skating dorking around being idiots, a group of what I think are punks.
Nope the guys told us to leave the park I'm like nope ain't happening, yada yada something in German that I knew was derogatory towards me, me and my friend got in to a fight. I got a busted lip my friend tried to slash one but missed I threw my board and hit one.
Would I say we won? no....... but we did survive.
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