Racism in Germany is the norm not the exception – DW – 03/23/2025
Racism in Germany is the norm not the exception – DW – 03/23/2025
In Germany, more than 60% of Black people and Muslims have experienced discrimination, according to a new study by the National Discrimination and Racism Monitor. The consequences can be severe.
As a german citizen with an immigrant background from Eastern Europe, I can confirm this. It's bad enough for a white looking, german passing eastern european. My friends from the Middle East or Africa have had a much, much worse experience than I ever will. Hell, I was walking down the street with my black friend once and some guys in their early twenties decided it'd be funny to scream the N word at us out of their car while also telling us to "go back where we came from".
Or another interesting story, I was at McDonalds the day right after the Hamas attack on Israel happened. Apparently the cashier thought it'd be acceptable to tell the muslim woman (that was obviously just a student or a tourist coming from abroad cause she had a huge suitcase with her with those airline tags on it) in front of me that she should learn german or don't come here, then said shit like "only thing you muslims know to do is behead people" and gestured with his hand at his neck the movement of cutting someone's head off. I was the only one to intervene and tell him it's not okay. All the pasty ass german boomers behind me just stayed in line and waited for their shitty burgers to arrive, literally no words of condemnation.
It cracks me up how white people in usa and europe both think that europe is a post-racial utopia instead of an extremely racist colonial empire.
Can you tell me some areas in the world that are more multi-cultural and less racist than western Europe?
For example, Singaporeans are wilding about Indians coming to their country for economic reasons. Working day and night, outcompeting locals. Bringing in more Indians.
I've been outside of Europe, you know what I saw? A lot of mono cultures such as Europe in the 1900s.
You are right, it's true everywhere. It's human nature to be wary of people you don't understand. But, for some things, you'd expect countries that are a lot further ahead in progressivism to be "nicer", especially since, you know, they industrialised and became richer on the backs of poorer countries.
Though I suppose that's very difficult to quantitatively measure exactly - how progressive someone is (on the scale of a country). How more accepting they are than other countries.
But there's also room for letting people air out their issues without being told that "everyone is like this, stop whining". That's literally what the Russian goverment does, they implicitly tell their populace that democracy doesn't work and that this is the best deal they'll ever get.
Wtf is that date format
United America States format
It is incredibly easy to pick out the Germans on Lemmy. After two back and forths they start screaming racist stuff about brown people.
This upsets me deeply. I'm German and I really don't care where people come from or how they look. Sure there are some prejudices in my mind, but I actively fight against them, because we're all just humans.
My partner comes from a South Asian country and I just see her as a bit more tanned than me, who is more pale. I genuinely don't understand the concept of skin colours and I'm regularly confused by it, believe it or not.
I'm sorry for everyone who is confronted with racism etc. I deeply hope that some day we overcome these arbitrary things that divide us.