Racism in Germany

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anna says on 2011-11-26 16:36:31 about racism in germany

Hey people,
I am German. I feel seriously discriminated. By this article, by the fact, that it is still absolutely politically correct to make utterly senseless statements like "Germans have a reputation for being an extremely racist people" and follow that with opinions that are purely emotional, no proof, some vague feelings - in how many homes for immigrants around the world have you been yet? Lady, where do you live? In the East of Germany? Right, there are quite a few racists, because people there are dumb, uneducated, out of work and hopeless underdogs - as there are many in the USA, in France, England, Italy - and do you know where they all agree? They agree that there is no problem to bash Germans. How much more racist can you get?
Between the age of 14 and 28, before I became a mother, I have been repeatedly molested, abused and once even raped by different men, all of them either turks or morroccans. I had long blond hair and was obviously rather trusting and not very careful. All this happened in Germany. I wouldn´t dream of making statements like "Turks and Moroccans are famous for raping women" Because this is just so dumb, and that is what makes the world such a shitty place: opinions, easily stated, not thought through, full of prejudice and false judgment. Oh my.

Ausländer says on 2011-09-04 14:23:29 about Racism in Germany

Danke Dir Andrea Lutz. Du hast eine gute Nase. Besonders gut hat mir :

I have walked along the street with African, Japanese and Indian people, and I have never been stared at as I have in Germany.

gefallen. Ich lebe seit 25 Jahre hier und kriege keine Luft mehr. Ich muss weg!

unity says on 2011-06-23 17:43:12 about Bad racism

I live in the soúthern part of germany. I come from south asia and I have joined a new job here. I have been living in the northern part of germany for about two years, but never had a problem of racism. but in the southern part, people are very rude in nature and treat very differently if you are not white. If you go to shops, they dont take the money from you directly but they take it from the next white guy. They seem to think that it is a very normal practice here. I can never agree to the comment that there is no racism in germany. I have experienced it. So people, please dont argue with me without facts.

unity says on 2011-06-23 17:42:22 about Bad racism

I live in the soúthern part of germany. I come from south asia and I have joined a new job here. I have been living in the northern part of germany for about two years, but never had a problem of racism. but in the southern part, people are very rude in nature and treat very differently if you are not white. If you go to shops, they dont take the money from you directly but they take it from the next guy. They seem to think that it is a very normalo practice here. I can never agree to the comment that there is no racism in germany. I have experienced it. So people, please dont argue with me without facts.

Jinglepop says on 2011-02-07 11:30:10 about There USED to be serious racism in Germany

My Chinese friend from Singapore (brown-ish skin tone) went to Germany for six months as an exchange student.

She went to Stuttgard, Frankfurt, Munich, Wolfsburg, Proettlin and had no such racism trouble at all. She likes it there, wishes to study there but the school syllabus clashes with ours and so sadly she cannot.

Her only comments are that Germans are still perfectionist, and have high opinions of themselves. Other than that they are all right.

There's bound to be racism, but I doubt as serious as these people like to claim or post.

ilovegermany says on 2010-12-02 18:20:10 about racism in germany

while i would not go as far as saying that there is no trace of racism in Germany, i would say Germans have turned out to be some of the friendliest, most helpful people i´ve met in my life. strangers smile at me in the street and make small talk. i have lived in Germany for almost one year now and as a Black African, i am yet to experience any form of racism. To the contrary people are pleasantly curious about me, my hairstyle, my dressing, country and all that. I have made many friends and i know that some of them are for life. The only racism i suffered was from a fellow West African!
One thing i do know is that wherever you are, if you look hard enough, you will find prejudice. Even in your own family.

pc says on 2010-11-27 20:24:34 about racism

Germany is definitely racist. I am black and I live in dusseldorf and I just suffered a racism attack at a club door call Club Boheme in Ratinger Strasse. I was in a long queue for more than half an hour...verybody going in and guess what happens when my time to go in comes? I am blocked with the excuse that I am bad dressed and that I am to sporty. It is not that this club is know for being a tie and smoking club... I asked once again and they told me no and just to go (no explanation, nothing). Then I asked the main door man and he just said that he has nothing to do with it...This is stupid in the XXI century...it happens a lot in Germany specialy in this blond club. The problem is that I cannot find a place to complain...as always...

German Guy says on 2010-11-21 05:03:46 about Things are better elsewhere???

It is defenitely true that xenophobia and racism are a problem in Germany - but I don't understand at all why almost everyone in this forum seems to see it as a specifically German problem. I do feel sorry for anyone who has experienced racism in Germany, and I apologize for those of my countrymen who are, undoubtedly, racist. Still, when you go beyond describing your personal experience and start judging all of the 80 million Germans please keep two things in mind: Firstly, within our relatively small country differences between different regions are surprisingly vast, and secondly, have a close look at some of our neighboring countries (Belgium, France, Austria, Denmark, Netherlands) and you will see the exact same tensions and problems. Racial tensions are much larger in France than they are in Germany. Things are better in America??? Yes, if you compare, say, Los Angeles to Finsterwalde in Brandenburg, defenitely. During an internship in D.C. I talked to a black woman who said she was frequently experiencing racism in her daily life. And it is no secret that behind the facade of political correctness of the type "we don't say black, these people are afro american..." there is massive segregation. If you look at France, there are tensions between Arabic and French people, icluding a great deal of racism. Even in Norway there is racism against Pakistani immigrants. And yes, in Germany we also have racism. The only place I've been to where there is hardly any racism is Ghana.

I think is is disgusting that foreigners in Germany sometimes face problems that Germans are not exposed to, and I defenitely think we have to fight racism harder than we are at the moment. But the racism in Germany is, on the whole, the same racism you get anywhere, it is not Hitler's spirit awaking from the dead, and I am sick and tired of seeing double standard every time racism in Germany is judged.

Thank you.

Kosch says on 2010-08-29 10:37:00 about this article

If racism and xenophobia is not a huge problem in Germany then why is everyone so defensive about it? I think the Germans just feel guilty and are too cocky to admit they when they are wrong. Or they are all in denial. Here they have a closed culture. You act like a German or you can live on welfare PERIOD. BTW I am American, and no, America doesn't even come close to how disgusting things are here for non-Germans. There's really no comparison. Germans don't have proper laws to help foreigners here. WHY? Oh yeah because the politician who was actually helping foreigners received so many death threats that he had to leave the CDU to save his life. Take some damn responsibility GERMANY.

Rackham says on 2010-03-31 19:47:57 about EVIL !!

i want to refer to that anti multicultural dude and his OUTRIGHT LIE that " we never had these racism problems before the multicultural times of nowadays". MAN, ARE YOU TOTALLY STUPID OR WHAT ???! are you deaf, dumb, blind, evil and an analphabet ( ANAL phabet would be better, as most nazis have this ANAL problem) at the same time? the extermination of the armenians took place BEFORE modern multicultural societies, the holocaust in germany, the killing of indians in south and north america, etc etc, ALL THESE HAPPENED WAY BEFORE MULTICULTURALISM EMERGED AS A WIDE SPREAD WAY OF LIFE. if ANY thing has made our lives more cheerful, interesting, humane and colourful and REAL, then it WAS that multicultural wave spreading out from the sixties and not stopping until now. many voices complain that TURKS in berlin are lousy german speakers and steal and bash and bully,etc. i have lived in berlin for a long time and had my share of troubles with them turks, of course, they are an emotional lot, easily ignited but EASILY reconciled AGAIN. NEVER has any turk ( although I look precisely like THE ARIAN HITLER DREAM GERMAN TYPE, hoho, to their eyes, probably) harmed, beaten or knifed me, and, boy, have I been , and alone been, in darkest corners of town many many a time !NEVER! yet HOW MANY germans have attacked, ravaged, stolen, rampaged, threatened, bitten, beaten, denounced, betrayed and lied to my person ? A COUNTLESS NUMBER. and I am not the one to " take their jobs or girls" . are there so few girls in germany THAT THESE IMPOTENT nurds need to be AFRAID i endangered their procreation? laughable. someone wrote in very bad english on top of this thread that germans cannot be trusted and even under normal circumstances of life will spy on you, envy you, fake friendship and then STEAL YOUR IDEAS and declare them as THEIRS. never mind the atrocious english this was written in, the man IS A HUNDRED MILLION PERCENT CORRECT! everywhere where I had contact with germans, and be that abroad or inland, they turned out to be a rather unattractive, deceitful and jealous lot who just used my foreign background to satisfy what little jealous curiosity was in them, only to run away with my ideas, inspirations, contacts, friends or whatever they could grasp their slimey hands upon - and , lo and behold, this knows no exception till the day of today: they are a greedy, vain an hypocrite bunch of opportunists who will fake friendship for awhile until they got what they wanted from you an almost NEVER be there when the bullets are flying, we call these: FAIR WEATHER FRIENDS. I don´t care if rumsfeld, that mass murderer, used the same words or not but in this case, he coincided with the truth : germans are NEVER there when it comes to do the dirty work with or for a friend, they ALWAYS HAVE AN EXCUSE, a headache, they cancel and postpone important dates a nauseam , they keep talking and talking endlessly about unimportant subjects on trains an buses, its almost unbelievable the amount of hollow and uninteresting crap they keep talking.yes, the STARE is there! my american girl friend in town can CONFIRM it to me by the day.scene after scene the picture completes: she got knocked by a car that needed to STOP - but did not - and all this scum driver german whore was worried about was HER FUCKING CAR and not the shell shocked pretty girl under her wheels. she whined an hour even when nothing had happened to her sacred piece of brass ... the police fingering through my friend´s private diaries during an inspection based only on unusual clothes she wore on the street in broad daylight - and we are NOT in the GDR anymore! many of the colleagues in my office never greet first, only a few : others dont say a word to me for MONTHS until they have found an EVIL LITTLE reason TO FINALLY attack me when - once in 3 months - in some hurry I snap a coffee from the kitchen without replacing water into the machine! A HUNDRED TIMES BEFORE I ALWAYS HAVE DONE IT but no one EVER said any word of gratitude. NEVER. my friend was cheerfully SINGING in my flat and the house owner came with the POLICE ! having, on the other hand,totally ignored my urges, a year before, to DO SOMETHING ABOUT THESE NAZI SCREAMING WELDERS IN OUR HOUSE WHO ROOFED IT FOR 2 MONTHS, day in and day out barbarically screaming, dirtily and satanically laughing their almost fascist sounding cold laughter permanently, turning the entire house into a nazi barracks, and my house owner is a NICE GUY still, in comparison to many another I had the misfortune to meet.NOT ONE SINGLE FUCKING NEIGHBOUR COMPLAINED about that -but when nice music bumpered a bit on a saturday night once, there they were at my door, with THE COPS.


in EAST berlin I once walked with a dark haired turkish friend and suddenly at night got attacked by a bomber jacket wearing scum of 20 years age who jumped on him simply because we two had been laughing an whistling on a dark street, a sinister plastic jacket wearing german FRAU of 20 or so stood beside him, watching in comfort how he tried to beat my turk friend.we had done absolutely NOTHING to the scum and eventually chased him away.he kicked and beat as if he wanted to MURDER a hundred people, simple an primitive HATRED. and not against a turk hooligan but a nice an charming artist. fact, fact, fact.in east berlin: my neighbours where I once shortly lived with an american friend,were day in an out nagging and screaming and hassling but when we went there to ask for peace and silence, finally, after 2 months of this going on,the tatooed whimp in his undershirt started to kick box with us INSTANTLY right at his door, out of nothing. violence prone, evil, stupid, mean and retarded, such are many germans and the vile middle masses who play cool are the most to fear, as they give the ( wrong ) impression they´d be on your side in case of real danger. THEY WON´T ! they are much more worried about their next shallow intercourse with their boring and conformist media girl friend and their publicity job, instead. bald headed, ugly maraboos with computers, good for nothing in real life they are. I could write a book about all the evil I have lived in both east and west, with police or civilians, with colleagues and the daily racism on the workplace, this insane cold ignoring you and hating you when you happen to be in a good mood and the SCHADENFREUDE( joy to see someone else suffer) in case you should happen to have a bad mood once in a while some day - sickening.

and whats WORST: they NEVER deliberately and pro actively GIVE! giving is evidently an OBSCENE thing for the master race that has been drilled and conditioned to TAKE ( take money, time, labour of foreigners, take LIVES!)TAKE TAKE TAKE BUT NEVER GIVE !!!!!where is the generosity ? spaniards once said to me that the germans were " generous" . sorry, but I did not notice.not REAL generosity, only tricky little presents to GET something out of YOU !they steal your connections and once they got what they wanted BETRAY you on top.their best poets knew it : LAND OF THE FATHERS, LAND OF THE TRAITORS. land der väter, land der verräter.

but the old saying is also true that , if you have the choice between TWO evils, choose NEITHER. no one in their right minds can say that the behavior of many young turks or russians or arabs is very agreeable in germany, its disgusting! but then ....when you are constantly treated like shit by the master race - who would NOT become rugged, harsh,gloomy, arrogant and impatient ??? the germans ALWAYS say: BE PATIENT to me when I am exploding in rage and anger because of just another latest racist incident against me - never realizing that OUR PATIENCE IS NOT ENDLESS and, that it is so easy to brabble PATIENCE where YOU are not hit yourself, where it is not concerning YOU PERSONALLY, and, that sooner or later all the hatred and anger and justified rejection they have created in so many good willing young or older foreigners , that this will explode into their very german faces.LETS SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GO TO THE GERMANS THEN, PREACHING : PATIENCE !!! and then don´t complain, germans ! because the very way you have precisely treated your best, most honest and strongest minds and people will be falling back on you.it´s a joke that berlin has not even got an international radio station like any civilized metropoli should. just look at these mediocre males in charlottenburg or wilmersdorf, the way they dress, their stupid noses and hair cuts, it all looks so idiotically retarded, so sickeningly unfresh and BIEDERMEIER, so rancidly unhappy, evil and provincial ! they cant laugh, they STARE an SPY instead of LOOKING, they are not COMMUNICATIVE, they hide themselves inside of their shirt collars.....it all looks like a SPITZWEG painting to me ! i myself come from an international back ground but I can hardly remember any german who EVER asked me intelligent, important, really interested QUESTIONS about myself and the place I grew up, never! only clises, common places, or sheer envy, satisfying their curiosity, nothing else.a malaysian woman, a high ranking business woman, told me many years ago: " leave , leave, the sooner the better, believe me : the germans are RACIST to the core - but they won´t SAY IT." and thats all I have to say now : they won´t say it and if we expect a truth commission by THEM, we are FUCKED. they hate truth, they hate being criticized, they hate to wake up from the all too beautiful wrong ideal image they got about themselves and no one else can do that but YOU, we , ME!!! its GREAT that a guy like this wallraff reporter dressed as a black man infiltrated german work life for a while( although in a sickeningly and unforgivably clumsy manner, as some uncle tom type of the cheapest kind, the very, the VERY prejudice image of a black man HE HIMSELF HAS CLAIMED TO EXPOSE! man, these german left wingers are too stupid to do their anti racist work without making themselves a laughingstock and DAMAGING their OWN cause !!!!) so there can be no public excuse anymore becausse his book has proved a hundred percent the daily and brutal and more than frightening and really existing cold,clear and undeniable RACISM which in germany exists as an unextinguishible daily experience. I have seen it, many have seen it, kids called an african black friend of mine MONKEY in the tube and laughed, etc etc etc. the evil sounding (not so ) new voices of disgusting personalities like westerwelle or this berlin senator sarrazin who complained that " turks produce lots of little towel heads but nothing else of value " are clearest indicators that also in the FDP liberals (so called ..) and the SPD whigs the same atrocious intolerance is residing which nees to be exposed in all countries because it is a real sign of danger to the world again. a hundred percent the daily and brutal and more than frightening and really existing cold,clear and undeniable RACISM which in germany exists as an unextinguishible daily experience. I have seen it, many have seen it, kids called an african black friend of mine MONKEY in the tube and laughed, etc etc etc. the evil sounding (not so ) new voices of disgusting personalities like westerwelle or this berlin senator sarrazin who complained that " turks produce lots of little towel heads but nothing else of value " are clearest indicators that also in the FDP liberals (so called ..) and the SPD whigs the same atrocious intolerance is residing which needs to be exposed in all countries because it is a real sign of danger to the world again.

RACKHAM says on 2010-03-31 19:28:21 about evil, evil, evil !!!!!

i want to refer to that anti multicultural dude an his OUTRIGHT LIE that " we never had these racism problems before the multicultural times of nowadays". MAN, ARE YOU TOTALLY STUPID OR WHAT ???! are you deaf, dumb, blind, evil and an analphabet ( ANAL phabet would be better, as most nazis have this ANAL problem) at the same time? the extermination of the armenians took place BEFORE modern multicultural societies, the holocaust in germany, the killing of indians in south and north america, etc etc, ALL THESE HAPPENE WAY BEFORE MULTICULTURALISM EMERGE AS A WIDE SPREAD WAY OF LIFE. if ANY thing has made our lives more cheerful, interesting, humane and colourful and REAL, then it WAS that multicultural wave spreading out from the sixties and not stopping until now. many voices complain that TURKS in berlin are lousy german speakers and steal and bash and bully,etc. i have lived in berlin for a long time and had my share of troubles with them turks, of course, they are an emotional lot, easily ignited but EASILY reconciled AGAIN. NEVER has any turk ( although I look precisely like THE ARIAN HITLER DREAM GERMAN TYPE, hoho, to their eyes, probably) harmed, beaten or knifed me, and, boy, have I been , and alone been, in darkest corners of town many many a time !NEVER! yet HOW MANY germans have attacked, ravaged, stolen, rampaged, threatened, bitten, beaten, denounced, betrayed and lied to my person ? A COUNTLESS NUMBER. and I am not the one to " take their jobs or girls" . are there so few girls in germany THAT THESE IMPOTENT nurds need to be AFRAID i endangered their procreation? laughable. someone wrote in very bad english on top of this thread that germans cannot be trusted and even under normal circumstances of life will spy on you, envy you, fake friendship and then STEAL YOUR IDEAS and declare them as THEIRS. never mind the atrocious english this was written in, the man IS A HUNDRED MILLION PERCENT CORRECT! everywhere where I had contact with germans, and be that abroad or inland, they turned out to be a rather unattractive, deceitful and jealous lot who just used my foreign background to satisfy what little jealous curiosity was in them, only to run away with my ideas, inspirations, contacts, friends or whatever they coul grasp their slimey hands upon - and , lo and behold, this knows no exception till the day of today: they are a greedy, vain an hypocrite bunch of opportunists who will fake frienship for awhile until they got what they wanted from you an almost NEVER be there when the bullets are flying, we call these: FAIR WEATHER FRIENDS. I don´t care if rumsfeld, that mass murderer, used the same words or not but in this case, he coincided with the truth : germans are NEVER there when it comes to do the dirty work with or for a friend, they ALWAYS HAVE AN EXCUSE, a headache, they cancel and postpone important dates a nauseam , they keep talking and talking endlessly about unimportant subjects on trains an buses, its almost unbelievable the amount of hollow and uninteresting crap they keep talking.yes, the STARE is there! my american girl friend in town can CONFIRM it to me by the day.scene after scene the picture completes: she got knocked by a car that needed to STOP - but did not - and all this scum driver german whore was worried about was HER FUCKING CAR and not the shell shocked pretty girl under her wheels. she whined an hour even when nothing had happened to her sacred piece of brass ... the police fingering through my friend´s private diaries during an inspection based only on unusual clothes she wore on the street in broad daylight - and we are NOT in the GDR anymore! many of the colleagues in my office never greet first, only a few : others dont say a word to me for MONTHS until they have found an EVIL LITTLE reason TO FINALLY attack me when - once in 3 months - in some hurry I snap a coffee from the kitchen without replacing water into the machine! A HUNDRED TIMES BEFORE I ALWAYS HAVE DONE IT but no one EVER said any word of gratitude. NEVER. my friend was cheerfully SINGING in my flat and the house owner came with the POLICE ! having, on the other hand,totally ignored my urges, a year before, to DO SOMETHING ABOUT THESE NAZI SCREAMING WELDERS IN OUR HOUSE WHO ROOFED IT FOR 2 MONTHS, day in and day out barbarically screaming, dirtily and satanically laughing their almost fascist sounding cold laughter permanently, turning the entire house into a nazi barracks, and my house owner is a NICE GUY still, in comparison to many another I had the misfortune to meet.NOT ONE SINGLE FUCKING NEIGHBOUR COMPLAINED about that -but when nice music bumpered a bit on a saturday night once, there they were at my door, with THE COPS.


in EAST berlin I once walked with a dark haired turkish friend and sudenly at night got attacked by a bomber jacket wearing scum of 20 years age who jumped on him simply because we two had been laughing an whistling on a dark street, a sinister plastic jacket wearing german FRAU of 20 or so stood bside him, watching in comfort how he tried to beat my turk friend.we had done absolutely NOTHING to the scum and eventually chased him away.he kicked and beat as if he wanted to MURDER a hundred people, simple an primitive HATRED. and not against a turk hooligan but a nice an charming artist. fact, fact, fact.in east berlin: my neighbours where I once shortly lived with an american friend,were day in an out nagging and screaming and hassling but when we went there to ask for peace and silence, finally, after 2 months of this going on,the tatooed whimp in his undershirt started to kick box with us INSTANTLY right at his door, out of nothing. violence prone, evil, stupid, mean and retarded, such are many germans and the vile middle masses who play cool are the most to fear, as they give the ( wrong ) impression they´d be on your side in case of real danger. THEY WON´T ! they are much more worried about their next shallow intercourse with their boring and conformist media girl friend and their publicity job, instead. bald headed, ugly maraboos with omputers, good for nothing in real life they are. I could write a book about all the evil I have lived in both east and west, with police or civilians, with colleagues and the daily racism on the workplace, this insane cold ignoring you and hating you when you happen to be in a good mood and the SCHADENFREUDE( joy to see someone else suffer) in case you should happen to have a bad mood once in a while some day - sickening.

and whats WORST: they NEVER deliberately and pro actively GIVE! giving is evidently an OBSCENE thing for the master race that has been drilled and conditioned to TAKE ( take money, time, labour of foreigners, take LIVES!)TAKE TAKE TAKE BUT NEVER GIVE !!!!!where is the generosity ? spaniards once said to me that the germans were " generous" . sorry, but I did not notice.not REAL generosity, only tricky little presents to GET something out of YOU !they steal your connections and once they got what they wanted BETRAY you on top.their best poets knew it : LAND OF THE FATHERS, LAND OF THE TRAITORS. land der väter, land der verräter.

but the old saying is also true that , if you have the choice between TWO evils, choose NEITHER. no one in their right minds can say that the behavior of many young turks or russians or arabs is very agreeable in germany, its disgusting! but then ....when you are constantly treated like shit by the master race - who would NOT become rugged, harsh,gloomy, arrogant and impatient ??? the germans ALWAYS say: BE PATIENT to me when I am exploding in rage and anger because of just another latest racist incident against me - never realizing that OUR PATIENCE IS NOT ENDLESS and, that it is so easy to brabble PATIENCE where YOU are not hit yourself, where it is not concerning YOU PERSONALLY, and, that sooner or later all the hatred and anger and justified rejection they have created in so many good willing young or older foreigners , that this will explode into their very german faces.LETS SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GO TO THE GERMANS THEN, PREACHING : PATIENCE !!! and then don´t complain, germans ! because the very way you have precisely treated your best, most honest and strongest minds and people will be falling back on you.it´s a joke that berlin has not even got an international radio station like any civilized metropoli should. just look at these mediocre males in charlottenburg or wilmersdorf, the way they dress, their stupid noses and hair cuts, it all looks so idiotically retarded, so sickeningly unfresh and BIEDERMEIER, so rancidly unhappy, evil and provincial ! they cant laugh, they STARE an SPY instead of LOOKING, they are not COMMUNICATIVE, they hide themselves inside of their shirt collars.....it all looks like a SPITZWEG painting to me ! i myself come from an international back ground but I can hardly remember any german who EVER asked me intelligent, important, really interested QUESTIONS about myself and the place I grew up, never! only clises, common places, or sheer envy, satisfying their curiosity, nothing else.a malaysian woman, a high ranking business woman, told me many years ago: " leave , leave, the sooner the better, believe me : the germans are RACIST to the core - but they won´t SAY IT." and thats all I have to say now : they won´t say it and if we expect a truth commission by THEM, we are FUCKED. they hate truth, they hate being criticized, they hate to wake up from the all too beautiful wrong ideal image they got about themselves and no one else can do that but YOU, we , ME!!! its GREAT that a guy like this wallraff reporter dressed as a black man infiltrated german work life for a while( although in a sickeningly and unforgivably clumsy manner, as some uncle tom type of the cheapest kind, the very, the VERY prejudice image of a black man HE HIMSELF HAS CLAIMED TO EXPOSE! man, these german left wingers are too stupid to do their anti racist work without making themselves a laughingstock and DAMAGING their OWN cause !!!!) so there can be no public excuse anymore becausse his book has proved a hundred percent the daily and brutal and more than frightening and really existing cold,clear and undeniable RACISM which in germany exists as an unextinguishible daily experience. I have seen it, many have seen it, kids called an african black friend of mine MONKEY in the tube and laughed, etc etc etc. the evil sounding (not so ) new voices of disgusting personalities like westerwelle or this berlin senator sarrazin who complained that " turks produce lots of little towel heads but nothing else of value " are clearest indicators that also in the FDP liberals (so called ..) and the SPD whigs the same atrocious intolerance is residing which nees to be exposed in all countries because it is a real sign of danger to the world again.want to refer to that anti multicultural dude an his OUTRIGHT LIE that " we never had these racism problems before the multicultural times of nowadays". MAN, ARE YOU TOTALLY STUPID OR WHAT ???! are you deaf, dumb, blind, evil and an analphabet ( ANAL phabet would be better, as most nazis have this ANAL problem) at the same time? the extermination of the armenians took place BEFORE modern multicultural societies, the holocaust in germany, the killing of indians in south and north america, etc etc, ALL THESE HAPPENE WAY BEFORE MULTICULTURALISM EMERGE AS A WIDE SPREAD WAY OF LIFE. if ANY thing has made our lives more cheerful, interesting, humane and colourful and REAL, then it WAS that multicultural wave spreading out from the sixties and not stopping until now. many voices complain that TURKS in berlin are lousy german speakers and steal and bash and bully,etc. i have lived in berlin for a long time and had my share of troubles with them turks, of course, they are an emotional lot, easily ignited but EASILY reconciled AGAIN. NEVER has any turk ( although I look precisely like THE ARIAN HITLER DREAM GERMAN TYPE, hoho, to their eyes, probably) harmed, beaten or knifed me, and, boy, have I been , and alone been, in darkest corners of town many many a time !NEVER! yet HOW MANY germans have attacked, ravaged, stolen, rampaged, threatened, bitten, beaten, denounced, betrayed and lied to my person ? A COUNTLESS NUMBER. and I am not the one to " take their jobs or girls" . are there so few girls in germany THAT THESE IMPOTENT nurds need to be AFRAID i endangered their procreation? laughable. someone wrote in very bad english on top of this thread that germans cannot be trusted and even under normal circumstances of life will spy on you, envy you, fake friendship and then STEAL YOUR IDEAS and declare them as THEIRS. never mind the atrocious english this was written in, the man IS A HUNDRED MILLION PERCENT CORRECT! everywhere where I had contact with germans, and be that abroad or inland, they turned out to be a rather unattractive, deceitful and jealous lot who just used my foreign background to satisfy what little jealous curiosity was in them, only to run away with my ideas, inspirations, contacts, friends or whatever they coul grasp their slimey hands upon - and , lo and behold, this knows no exception till the day of today: they are a greedy, vain an hypocrite bunch of opportunists who will fake frienship for awhile until they got what they wanted from you an almost NEVER be there when the bullets are flying, we call these: FAIR WEATHER FRIENDS. I don´t care if rumsfeld, that mass murderer, used the same words or not but in this case, he coincided with the truth : germans are NEVER there when it comes to do the dirty work with or for a friend, they ALWAYS HAVE AN EXCUSE, a headache, they cancel and postpone important dates a nauseam , they keep talking and talking endlessly about unimportant subjects on trains an buses, its almost unbelievable the amount of hollow and uninteresting crap they keep talking.yes, the STARE is there! my american girl friend in town can CONFIRM it to me by the day.scene after scene the picture completes: she got knocked by a car that needed to STOP - but did not - and all this scum driver german whore was worried about was HER FUCKING CAR and not the shell shocked pretty girl under her wheels. she whined an hour even when nothing had happened to her sacred piece of brass ... the police fingering through my friend´s private diaries during an inspection based only on unusual clothes she wore on the street in broad daylight - and we are NOT in the GDR anymore! many of the colleagues in my office never greet first, only a few : others dont say a word to me for MONTHS until they have found an EVIL LITTLE reason TO FINALLY attack me when - once in 3 months - in some hurry I snap a coffee from the kitchen without replacing water into the machine! A HUNDRED TIMES BEFORE I ALWAYS HAVE DONE IT but no one EVER said any word of gratitude. NEVER. my friend was cheerfully SINGING in my flat and the house owner came with the POLICE ! having, on the other hand,totally ignored my urges, a year before, to DO SOMETHING ABOUT THESE NAZI SCREAMING WELDERS IN OUR HOUSE WHO ROOFED IT FOR 2 MONTHS, day in and day out barbarically screaming, dirtily and satanically laughing their almost fascist sounding cold laughter permanently, turning the entire house into a nazi barracks, and my house owner is a NICE GUY still, in comparison to many another I had the misfortune to meet.NOT ONE SINGLE FUCKING NEIGHBOUR COMPLAINED about that -but when nice music bumpered a bit on a saturday night once, there they were at my door, with THE COPS.


in EAST berlin I once walked with a dark haired turkish friend and sudenly at night got attacked by a bomber jacket wearing scum of 20 years age who jumped on him simply because we two had been laughing an whistling on a dark street, a sinister plastic jacket wearing german FRAU of 20 or so stood bside him, watching in comfort how he tried to beat my turk friend.we had done absolutely NOTHING to the scum and eventually chased him away.he kicked and beat as if he wanted to MURDER a hundred people, simple an primitive HATRED. and not against a turk hooligan but a nice an charming artist. fact, fact, fact.in east berlin: my neighbours where I once shortly lived with an american friend,were day in an out nagging and screaming and hassling but when we went there to ask for peace and silence, finally, after 2 months of this going on,the tatooed whimp in his undershirt started to kick box with us INSTANTLY right at his door, out of nothing. violence prone, evil, stupid, mean and retarded, such are many germans and the vile middle masses who play cool are the most to fear, as they give the ( wrong ) impression they´d be on your side in case of real danger. THEY WON´T ! they are much more worried about their next shallow intercourse with their boring and conformist media girl friend and their publicity job, instead. bald headed, ugly maraboos with omputers, good for nothing in real life they are. I could write a book about all the evil I have lived in both east and west, with police or civilians, with colleagues and the daily racism on the workplace, this insane cold ignoring you and hating you when you happen to be in a good mood and the SCHADENFREUDE( joy to see someone else suffer) in case you should happen to have a bad mood once in a while some day - sickening.

and whats WORST: they NEVER deliberately and pro actively GIVE! giving is evidently an OBSCENE thing for the master race that has been drilled and conditioned to TAKE ( take money, time, labour of foreigners, take LIVES!)TAKE TAKE TAKE BUT NEVER GIVE !!!!!where is the generosity ? spaniards once said to me that the germans were " generous" . sorry, but I did not notice.not REAL generosity, only tricky little presents to GET something out of YOU !they steal your connections and once they got what they wanted BETRAY you on top.their best poets knew it : LAND OF THE FATHERS, LAND OF THE TRAITORS. land der väter, land der verräter.

but the old saying is also true that , if you have the choice between TWO evils, choose NEITHER. no one in their right minds can say that the behavior of many young turks or russians or arabs is very agreeable in germany, its disgusting! but then ....when you are constantly treated like shit by the master race - who would NOT become rugged, harsh,gloomy, arrogant and impatient ??? the germans ALWAYS say: BE PATIENT to me when I am exploding in rage and anger because of just another latest racist incident against me - never realizing that OUR PATIENCE IS NOT ENDLESS and, that it is so easy to brabble PATIENCE where YOU are not hit yourself, where it is not concerning YOU PERSONALLY, and, that sooner or later all the hatred and anger and justified rejection they have created in so many good willing young or older foreigners , that this will explode into their very german faces.LETS SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GO TO THE GERMANS THEN, PREACHING : PATIENCE !!! and then don´t complain, germans ! because the very way you have precisely treated your best, most honest and strongest minds and people will be falling back on you.it´s a joke that berlin has not even got an international radio station like any civilized metropoli should. just look at these mediocre males in charlottenburg or wilmersdorf, the way they dress, their stupid noses and hair cuts, it all looks so idiotically retarded, so sickeningly unfresh and BIEDERMEIER, so rancidly unhappy, evil and provincial ! they cant laugh, they STARE an SPY instead of LOOKING, they are not COMMUNICATIVE, they hide themselves inside of their shirt collars.....it all looks like a SPITZWEG painting to me ! i myself come from an international back ground but I can hardly remember any german who EVER asked me intelligent, important, really interested QUESTIONS about myself and the place I grew up, never! only clises, common places, or sheer envy, satisfying their curiosity, nothing else.a malaysian woman, a high ranking business woman, told me many years ago: " leave , leave, the sooner the better, believe me : the germans are RACIST to the core - but they won´t SAY IT." and thats all I have to say now : they won´t say it and if we expect a truth commission by THEM, we are FUCKED. they hate truth, they hate being criticized, they hate to wake up from the all too beautiful wrong ideal image they got about themselves and no one else can do that but YOU, we , ME!!! its GREAT that a guy like this wallraff reporter dressed as a black man infiltrated german work life for a while( although in a sickeningly and unforgivably clumsy manner, as some uncle tom type of the cheapest kind, the very, the VERY prejudice image of a black man HE HIMSELF HAS CLAIMED TO EXPOSE! man, these german left wingers are too stupid to do their anti racist work without making themselves a laughingstock and DAMAGING their OWN cause !!!!) so there can be no public excuse anymore becausse his book has proved a hundred percent the daily and brutal and more than frightening and really existing cold,clear and undeniable RACISM which in germany exists as an unextinguishible daily experience. I have seen it, many have seen it, kids called an african black friend of mine MONKEY in the tube and laughed, etc etc etc. the evil sounding (not so ) new voices of disgusting personalities like westerwelle or this berlin senator sarrazin who complained that " turks produce lots of little towel heads but nothing else of value " are clearest indicators that also in the FDP liberals (so called ..) and the SPD whigs the same atrocious intolerance is residing which nees to be exposed in all countries because it is a real sign of danger to the world again.

GermanGuy says on 2010-03-04 12:04:05 about racism...

Andreas, I'm not sure everyone in this forum got the irony... most people did I guess.

Sulmaz guellar says on 2010-02-18 22:28:27 about Racism in Germany getting higer

Germans are absolute racism. I believe that every German is racist. I was living for 20 years in Germany in different places. They are fully extremely racist. They steer at foreigners. If foreigners are cleaning or sweeping street, the Germans will smile at them. But if they are walking and enjoying the weekend, Germans steer at them as at the criminals or extraordinary animals. Germans come directly toward foreigners face to face on steer and foreigners should turn around.
Foreigners don't have any chances by court. If all evidences are for foreigners, the court will still sentence against foreigners. If a foreigner need lawyer, the German lawyer will be more for German rather than for client!
Germans never give correct information into foreigners. If a person with dark hair ask Germans for address, the Germans will save we don't know or give him a fully or partly wrong direction to lose the way.
Germans are extremely against USA too. Because, in USA every scientist can register his innovation or invention after his name. But in Germany, Germans rub such scientific work and register that after German name.

Andreas Müller says on 2010-02-18 22:07:24 about Racism in Germany

Of course we are racist as German and we are very proud on that. But there are many racists in USA too. Racism in USA is other matter. Now the topic is about this fact, that Germans are centre of extreme racism and it's true. Our racism is hidden and modernized into sadistically making pain to foreigners. We ruin the life of foreigners and we conspire against them. For us the foreigners are like home animal or prisoners. We as Germans want to make a new spread fascism around the world by our lobbies in other countries.

EXSoldier says on 2010-02-16 14:49:53 about

If you think Germany is racist try coming to the U.S. We disguise our racism so that it is just below the surface. That is why we have the Republican party and Fox news. Racist in America call themselves Conservatives.

EXSoldier says on 2010-02-16 14:41:27 about

Sorry but if you are complaining about the way Blacks treat Whites in South Africa then apparently you don't know your history. I am not saying that what they are doing is right because it is horrible but given hoe white South Africans treated them in the past they might be a little angry and vengeful. Remember colonization and Apartheid?

Mariela says on 2010-01-27 09:04:34 about Everywhere

I have travelled, worked and lived in more than 20 countries in the American Continent, from Argentina to the USA. Working as a tourist guide and translator and being a mixed girl from Puerto Rico, I have found many types of prejudices.
I arrived to some concluions:
- Prejudices are part of the human condition. Like lies, we just cannot avoid to have it. Even when we do not admit them, we all have prejudices.
-Prejudices are part of our system of self-protection. So, prejudices appear when something menaces us.
-People feel fear of anything unknown. Human brain "read" unknown as menace or danger.
-All of us have the label tendency. We tend to put labels and give our particular definitons to everything, but especially to nationalities or regions inside our countries.
-There are prejudices everywhere. No matter what we do or think, perjudices always appear in some way to hurt somebody.

frigitar says on 2010-01-26 19:03:34 about racism??

So I'm an Indian guy in Germany.

Very Indian.

The brown skin, the accent, the head nod... all of it.

Been studying here for over a year now and have been in many parts of Germany.

So I dont think I have ever felt this ignored ever before.
Let alone stare, insult or act weird with me... my presence didnt even make them twitch. You should see a white man in India!

Sure there are cops who act a little strange... there's the odd proud Bavarian or two... Heck there might even be a few racists that I havent met as yet... ok. Granted.
Yet, I can only hope that the entire world was as accepting to people as Germany has been to me over the last months.

hah... "telling you how things really are since 2004" ... what are you on, mushrooms?

I'm very disappointed at your lack of insight and neutrality in writing this article.

good god. says on 2010-01-18 21:39:25 about this is all fraud

good lord, i cannot comprehend what you are all talking about here. i myself feel there is only very little racism in germany compared to many other countries in the world.
the local nationalist party is very small and is not even in the parliament. compare it for example with norway - their nationalist party gets about 35% of the votes.
or do you have ever been in japan?
well, just my thoughts on this topic.

Niel says on 2010-01-08 17:43:31 about

Go and check out this website southafricasucks.com.Go take a look what the blacks do to ethnic germans in africa.Type in the words "Farmmurders" and you will see what you find.You complain about germany but what blacks do to white's is much worse

Niel says on 2010-01-08 17:42:57 about

Go and check out this website.Go take a look what the blacks do to ethnic germans in africa.Type in the words "Farmmurders" and you will see what you find.You complain about germany but what blacks do to white's is much worse

South African. says on 2010-01-08 17:38:51 about

I am a white man of german decent.It is not only white people who are racist but blacks as well.Come here to south africa and you will see that 7% of the white farmers have been murdered by blacks in the past 8 years.

Mepmep says on 2009-12-09 09:08:37 about Racism

Im German, and I have to laugh about the stuff most of you is writing. We are the worst, most racist, and most evil country on the World! Oh yes Sure we are! We are so Evil! Oh no we're probably not. Maybe you Guys are wondering why some People in Germany are nazi, maybe you just could stop pointing at us and say: Thats the Nazi country that gased millions of People. You could instead point on yourself and asking yourself what you are actually doing wrong by saying this sentence.

Look at your own country, America is still insulting blacks, england hates everyone at all ( Yes i was there with a friend out of the Netherlands and we have been insulted by, like every 3rd person for being German, my friend didnt even was German). France hates Germany ( No racism? sure) Poland, Czech, and whatever hates Germany, how can you say we are racists while not thinking that you even made yourself being a racist.

Oh I forgot im Nazi because im German! Sieg Heil! Faggots.

D....G says on 2009-11-18 16:35:10 about

Some Germans are racists, because they've nothing better to do and because they're just stupid. Other Germans are educated, they see how Turkish and Chinese etc. children go to the Gymnasium (school for kids who were very good in primary school) and then, they hear something negative for example about the Turkishs. So their whole view changes and they think about each Turkish, no matter how educated and how modern he is, that he's a criminal.
And that's a fact!!!

Anonymous says on 2009-10-20 16:08:21 about Racism is alive...

...and pulsating. Leider.

There is a wonderful part from a wonderful book as an answer for those nice fellas who think that they are better than others.

Sorry for being so uncreative, but if I wrote something, it would be too long (nobody would read it anyway) and I hate wasting time. Anyways here ya go:

(49:13) O people, we created you from the same male and female (Adam and Eve), and rendered you distinct peoples and tribes, that you may recognize* one another. The best among you in the sight of GOD is the most righteous. GOD is Omniscient, Cognizant.

*= I would also translate it as "to get to know each other"

And another nice quote from a very good movie with Brad Pitt:
"Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else."

See ? German or not, you're going to die and rot away anyway. The worms and maggots will feast on your body just like everyone else's body. You are not special, nor is any other race. Your blood is neither blue nor purple.

I'm not saying this out of hate, but srsly, you gotta be an alien or cyborg to have a license to feel better than others.

GermanGuy says on 2009-10-19 15:38:23 about racism...

Hi again,

racism in Germany is, to a large extent, racism against Germans. In some areas of Berlin, Germans are regularly beaten up by turks and kurds. German kids in certain schools (Hauptschule) face harrassment by 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation immigrants.

That is the second sort of racism that is widespread in Germany.

verbo says on 2009-10-17 16:47:01 about racism

Oh stop

Arlington says on 2009-10-16 07:04:19 about Racist Germany?

The problem in Germany is not only racism, but the Germans have very fragile senses for self-esteem. They have not developed a culture that they can be proud of, in spite of the technological advances and scientific discoveries, they have to carry on a stigma that nobody knows how to overcome. They know they are watched, they know they are looked down at for being racist, so they turn their backs to the auto-critics and say, "So what?" to themselves. This degenerates in an attitude of absolute indifference at any positive criticism.

The worst of Germans is not only described in their racist attitudes towards "foreigners". Possibly, those foreigners would not want to know Germans from too close, if they knew how they really are. For instance, there is an insiders' bad habit in Germany for men of the "Stammtisch" (men who meet together in a bar to drink and talk obscenely about other races and other cultures), that is... they play games of who farts worst smelling and noisier among them. When one farts, they all laugh out loud. The "game" is very much anal, but they do it.

Attitudes in Germany against women, the weak and mixed race are also very confrontational. In one of the English-speaking countries, people don't care if you are white and your marriage partner is of color. In Germany, the people tend to intrude in your relationship with questions as direct as "You couldn't find a partner in your own culture, that you had to bring this rabbit here?" The word "Kanickel" (rabbit) is used a lot to define foreign-born people.

Germany also has a very bad tradition of ill treatment of women, even of German women. That's why many German women go for foreign husbands a lot.

However, there are differences between North and South. It seems that the South of Germany is a little bit less troubled than the North, possibly because of the invasion of the Romans that led to Catholic Germany, as opposed to the cold North. Germany has also a very corrupt public administration. In the North the Social Democrats run the country to benefit their own interests. In the South, the Catholics do the same. In both North and South one may find a typical attitude of defiance, in which the Germans often misinterpret being masters of their own land with behaving like asses against those who are different.

AGS says on 2009-10-12 21:56:44 about Racisim

It really is better for the German to stay in their own homeland alone.
nobodies should
ever visit or move to stay with the German in Germany.
Let this People be alone
in the globalised world.

they will like it!

AGS says on 2009-10-12 21:55:34 about Racisim

It really is better for the German to stay in their own homeland alone.
nobodies should
ever visit or move to stay with German in Germany.
Let this People be alone
in the globalised world.

they will like it!

Mike says on 2009-09-23 06:30:35 about Fight Racism !

calling all germans racists isnt racistic at all ? nice one !

Though its sad hearing all this stories of racism over here. We got a long way to go.

polz says on 2009-09-23 05:25:45 about how germans treat asians

I've come to this country as foreigner, and i have to agree that most of them are racist. We have these experiences in german restaurants/stores where they are unusually grumpy or impatient. there are kind and open-minded people anyway

Factfinder says on 2009-09-06 14:45:25 about Racisim

I have been for more than 10 yeras in Germany.What I am telling is the fact there is no ifs ands buts. There is no differce between prist or judge,an averege german or professor, left like (the green part slogan that is written in Bold, we went gray but not Black or right like CDU on Rumania, when it come to rascism.Todays racisim in germany is practiced in dark,not at it was in past daylight or in enclosed doors. Talking about the histroy of other nation via atlantic or pacific in relation to racisim, doesnot justifies what is practiced her in Germany, I my self come to conclusion, It does not matter whether one is able to digest it or not each German is a racist as far as he or she is proved not racist!!!!

PorkChopChallenge says on 2009-09-05 06:18:27 about dangerous country

The racism here isn´t just based on unemployment, but it´s part of the culture. They like to do everything in little groups and they love to scapegoat. I´m white and I am harassed on a daily baisis. A few times I was spat at and this is in the west. I´ve lived all over the world and I have never seen such hate filled and racist people like I have in Germany.

Tia says on 2009-08-20 16:17:36 about

Hello everybody!
Cool, a site where everyone can do German bashing ;) And everyone agreed, that Germans are racist. I can not deny that racism exist in our country. Surely, there are a lot of things can go wrong between the different nationalities and us. But also true is, that many people like the multiculti mix. I like that too, and I'm not alone with this point of view.
I think it is not very fair to point a finger at us and say: ALL the Germans are racist. Its very simple to stir up prejudices especially because of our past. Which country has not any cases of racism? What happened to the Native American and the australian aborgine? What happened to the african people who come to America as slaves? Or something from the present: Just why more black as white people still were sentenced to jail? Bad luck? I don't think so.

I don't think the mankind is ready for a great cool group hug ;) But don't we all smell something like a change in the air? (omg ... I think this sentence is false but I hope, you know what I want to say :D ) America has the first black president and we have our first female chancellor ... Shit happened everywhere. But everywhere happened also something good. Don't make the mistake and say, "All Germans". Try to come to know some of us. The internet is the best medium for this if you don't have the chance to visit Germany. I think some of you will positive change your mind.
Sweet greets from Northern Germany, Tia =^_^=

OMG says on 2009-08-08 21:01:20 about

I happen to have lived in Germany for 3 years, and i sadly and reluctantly have to admit that ALL the negative comments made about Germany is true, with an atom of understatement to it. What amazes me most is how racist the so-called exposed Germans are. Anyway there are still some open minded Germans out there, we should all just hope there will be more of those kind. PEACE to everyone.People that might want to visit shouldn't hesitate to do so especially the western part of Germany.

GermanGuy says on 2009-08-04 21:56:12 about racism

Asia,

I totally respect your feelings, and I'm very sorry for your experiences. Still, please try not to use those unfair and wrong generalizations. Germany and the Germans are more than just some racists in police uniforms, behind counters and in front of dicos. That point of view is probably better for anyone living in Germany.
Germans are generally considered rather reserved people. Not all of it is racism. Also white people (e.g. Americans) have difficulties getting used to that. Staying open minded towards individuals defenitely helps and makes you more independent and clear sighted.
I know what it is like to be in a foreign and unwelcoming place, and that is what helped me.

Asia says on 2009-08-01 07:24:44 about Racism in Germany

I read the comments sent by different people about Racism in Germany.I highly respect their opinion and agree that Racism still exists in Bundesrepublic Deutschland.I have not heard about it or read about it,I have personally experienced it not only in the part of East Germany also in West Germany.It is a true fact that German people are exteremely racist.They do not admit it but their acts proved their Racist Nature towards People with Black Skin and Black hair.There are many occasions I am treated inhumanly by Police and other related authorities not only that also by Shoping in the Departmental stores.What the German claims regarding Human rights and Anti-Racism is totally false,it is limited only in the concept not in Reality.If your skin colour is Black or dark even you are not allowed to enter in Discos.Readers of this comment might think I am wrighting fairy tale but it is the true account of my experience.I have been insulted many times because of my colour but in my comment I do not want to insult German people,it is not my intention.My intention is to bring the hidden truth in the digital media and to share my pains with the people.If I have written something wrong I apologize for my comments.

GermanGuy says on 2009-06-21 16:30:53 about racism in Europe

Let me tell you where I think racism in East Germany comes from.

In the former DDR, there have been lots of political and social programs for youths (socialist or communist ones) that disappeared with re-unification.
This gap was not filled, and many people, and especially youths ended up without anyone who told them what to think, where to work and what to do in their free time. In other words many of those who were used to having a state taking care of them were confused, and worse, the communist "truths" that they had grown up with were questioned.
Now, a minority of, simply put, nazis organized in political parties did the following:
They offered lots of free time and neighborhood activities, especially for youths, and they gave themselves a decent facade, behind which they spread their racist ideology.
In some places, and this is a failure both of the government and German society, these nazi groups ended up offering the most attractive free time activities.
Now here's where the problem of unemployment gets relevant. In East Germany, unemployment rose dramatically after re-unification. Foreigners were used as scapegoats by the neo nazis, who tend to say that they "take away the jobs of the Germans". That's an over-simplified explanation of how neo-nazism spread out, and it also explains to some degree the sort of everyday racism that some of you have experienced.

I would like to apologize for the ignorant and narrow-minded people that do exist in my country. But please don't use double standards when you judge racism in different countries. I've really got the impression that racism in Germany is recognized because of the nazi past, and not because it really is worse than in other countries. In France, I heard people speaking about "arabes de merde" (translates as fucking arabs) in a way that any German I know would be shocked at. Racism and discrimination is a European, or even global problem, not a specifically German one. Still I agree that more has to be done to stop racism in Germany.

Did you know that any time there is a neo-nazi demonstration, there is also a counter-demonstration of usually five times as many people of all kinds of political and social groups, who show that they stand together against intolerance and racism?

I think it is also is a good sign that the neo nazi parties' share of votes in national elections is always below 1%, in several neighboring countries (Denmark, Netherlands, France) similar parties win up to 10 % of the votes.

I just wanted to make sure that you see a few more sides of the picture.

An normal, politically interested 22-year-old German guy

happyhappy says on 2009-05-11 15:16:14 about racism, germany, never again

I had the "fortune" of living in a German town near Dresden (former DDR) for 6 months... I was sent by my company for training. I am Indian btw..

I can easily say that I have never felt more uncomfortable in any other part of Europe (or the world) as I have felt there.. and I have lived for long periods in a lot of different countries.

The problem in (the former) East Germany is many fold... but OF COURSE you guys have never felt any of these because you are white.. now I'm not whining... But the simple fact is that people in East-Germany DO have things to say/stare/even attack you based on the colour of you skin.. There have been many incidents that left me scared shitless in the 6 months I was there.. a lady almost left a Rotweiler chasing after me, I had beer bottles thrown at me by skin-heads.. but I didnt go to the Police, coz I know it wouldnt been in vain, despite that I have almost native fluency in German..

To say that the Police in that part of Germany is biased is putting it lightly.. I was checked (by the same cops!) again and again and again by them.. sometimes 10 times in a week, including many times when there were Nazi kids just hanging out just down the street.. on asking why this was happening repeatedly.. "Oh.. well you look different, and we are keeping an eye on you".. with a smirk to boot.

As I said, there are different kinds of racism, all too evident, in that part... There's the Right Wing scene.. which doesnt really bother me much 'coz those knuckle heads are good-for nothing idiots with bad parenting. Then there's the police.. which is definitely dsiturbing. Then you have the people who've grown up in the former DDR.. who have the concept of "untermensch" all too fresh in their minds.. for those who don't know what this means, google it.

And when you do talk to normal, educated, well-spoken Germans from the west, they blame it on the deep-rooted economic problems in the east. I say balls.. I don't know what, but the problem definitely has it's roots else where.. I have been to the parts of Europe (and the world) which have unemployment rates higher than this place, worse infrastructure, no social support.. but never this problem!

What is supremely distrubing however, that given Germany's history, it is apparent that most Germans (the good, nice ones) are ignorant or apathtic to this problem. I am not saying they should feel guilty about their country's legacy forever, but there's definitely not being done enough to make it any safer..

Which brings me to my last point.. Well so they don't like (dark skinned) foreigners there in the east and made it quite apparent to me... and yes they have won. I will never ever return to East Germany and advise all the "darkies" i know to never venture there.. A pity, yes, 'coz even East Germany is a really beautiful place (albeit with ugly people)... so yeah, they are getting what they wanted..good for them!

Still, personally I dont regret going there one bit, in hindsight. The experience really made me mentally stronger and now the benchmark has been set so low that I literally count my blessings everwhere I travel. In a way it has made me more appreaciative of small things that go un-noticed and more patient with people...

Maximilian says on 2009-05-08 13:36:08 about Germany itself

Hi. I used to live 14 years in Germany and can tell you that most of those comments are completely right. I am half German and half Ghanian but was born in Germany. I cannot say that my childhood in Germany was quite nice. In fact children in nursery were laughing and insulting me because of my skin-colour, Later I got spat at when I went to my piano lessions or I was called names on my way home (just to list a few). Racism is still alive in Germany (although very much people are kind). When I went out shopping with my mum and we passed a group of youths, I was actually scared that they would insult her because the colour of her skin.

Don`t get me wrong: I had really good (Black and white!) friends there but if you are a person from a different cultural background Germany is definately not the country where to stay. I have relatives in a small (and very conservative!) village in the mountains in Rhineland-Palatine and really enjoyed to visit them in my young years till I started to feel that I was atually unwelcome for the people that lived there. I started to feel the starings, the behind-your-back-about-you-talkings and of course the words when a small child with a parent passed and asked: "Mommy, Daddy why is this boy black?"

I attended to a very good school in Düssseldorf and although it is in West Germany it was still very racist (from both: youths and teachers) and I felt that they thought that I did not belong there. Most people acccused me being a typical "African Child with Unemployed Parents" even if that was not true. Everyone, and I can say everyone in Germany will think or say that if you have an ethnic background (apart of Indian, Chinese or Japanese) you live on the taxpayers cost. I finally moved with my mum and my two sisters on August 9. 2008 in the UK and have to say that it was the best day of my live. Here in London I can actually feel free to go to libraries, supermarkets... without the fear of being racially insulted or stared at.

Although I still visit Germany (and even enjoying it) I have to admit that I feel more home in 9 months in the United Kingdom, than in 14 years in Western Germany (which is not as liberal as some might think). I just turned 15 and really think about a future in the UK because even if you are half German, you will be never, never accepted as a German person (and that is no offense to the 82.000.000 people living in Germany).

I hope I was able to help you to make your own mind about Germany up

Thanks for reading,
Maximilian

Maximilian says on 2009-05-08 13:35:15 about Germany itself

Hi. I used to live 14 years in Germany and can tell you that most of those comments are completely right. I am half German and half Ghanian but was born in Germany. I cannot say that my childhood in Germany was quite nice. In fact children in nursery were laughing and insulting me because of my skin-colour, Later I got spat at when I went to my piano lessions or I was called names on my way home (just to list a few). Racism is still alive in Germany (although very much people are kind). When I went out shopping with my mum and we passed a group of youths, I was actually scared that they would insult her because the colour of her skin.

Don`t get me wrong: I had really good (Black and white!) friends there but if you are a person from a different cultural background Germany is definately not the country where to stay. I have relatives in a small (and very conservative!) village in the mountains in Rhineland-Palatine and really enjoyed to visit them in my young years till I started to feel that I was atually unwelcome for the people that lived there. I started to feel the starings, the behind-your-back-about-you-talkings and of course the words when a small child with a parent passed and asked: "Mommy, Daddy why is this boy black?"

I attended to a very good school in Düssseldorf and although it is in West Germany it was still very racist (from both: youths and teachers) and I felt that they thought that I did not belong there. Most people acccused me being a typical "African Child with Unemployed Parents" even if that was not true. Everyone, and I can say everyone in Germany will think or say that if you have an ethnic background (apart of Indian, Chinese or Japanese) you live on the taxpayers cost. I finally moved with my mum and my two sisters on August 9. 2008 in the UK and have to say that it was the best day of my live. Here in London I can actually feel free to go to libraries, supermarkets... without the fear of being racially insulted or stared at.

Although I still visit Germany (and even enjoying it) I have to admit that I feel more home in 9 months in the United Kingdom, than in 14 years in Western Germany (which is not as liberal as some might think). I just turned 15 and really think about a future in the UK because even if you are half German, you will be never, never accepted as a German person (and that is no offense to the 82.000.000 people living in Germany).

I hope I was able to help you to make your own mind about Germany up

Thanks for reading
Maximilian

Prokki says on 2009-05-02 19:33:21 about Racist german

I am an white south african.Here in south africa white people are really coming second.
Here we have 1 out of every 3 women getting raped and every 4 days a police officer gets murdered.The goverment has racist laws that give black people an advantage over whites.Our labour law says if you are a black person you dont have to have a formal degree you only need the potential to do the work someday and then you as a black can get preference above a white.When i applied to study my law degree my average on school was 77% but i was turned down and black people who got in their low 50's got preference before me.
8 years ago their were 65 thousand white commercial farmers in south africa.Today their are 40 thousand left.Black people went on a rampage on killing white farmers and not only the farmer but their entire family's.More than 23% of the white population here have immigrated in the last 8 years.Some or other time in the future people will realize why white people do not want black people in their country.Their is something i want to say and this i mean.I dont think that white people belong in africa.I really dont.The Culture of white and black people are too much different.If any of you people in europe or germany think it is possible for people of different races to live together then come and take a very close look at south africa.

Today i am a final year law student and i am looking to go overseas.It is very hard for me becouse where do we as whites in africa go.I am ethnic german but i cant speak a word of german.Now i stay in a country where we can feel everyday that black people do not want us here.

It really is better for each race of people to stay in their own homeland.It does not matter how liberal you try to be some or other time there will be that feeling towards black people.

To the Germans who try to get other germans to like blacks....i just want to tell you if you have any real idea what these black people's real nature is then there is no chance in hell that you will ever let them come into your country.If a white nation now declares war on south africa i will go and fight alongside that nation and not for south africa.White people here in south africa does not want to say that they are south african.They feel like a people without a country and let me make the point again....we as whites dont think we belong in africa.

Hole says on 2009-04-24 09:39:46 about Racism

I think there will not be any problem, if everyone stays back in their own land...Absolutely no problem at all..but it is not reality..The world has become so globalised...each and everything you use everyday comes from different country...please look a head far beyond than skin colour, language and cultures..we are human beings..A species which has got its identity among so species in the planet earth....
A german man also has one dick as other man in the world..and a german woman also has two boobs like others..please dont try to negative on others...everyone behaves in the sameways, when someone of other race enters our country.....as it is our human tendency...it is nature....even animals will not allow other animals to eat its prey....we arent animals anymore..we are civilised...we know humanity...every other depends on others to survive in this competitive world...I think the topic of anit racism should not be encouraged...

Earlybird says on 2009-02-09 19:02:23 about Racism is not everywhere

I wanted to add that banning the NPD is really not that easy. If there is democracy and freedom of the press there is unfortunately enough room for criminal activities. I also wasn´t aware of that but when I read the party program of the NPD I knew what people meant.They disguise as being harmless but they can be compared to a sect. They offer comfort and protection to unemployed, less educated people who are left alone by German policy and that is the reason why they are being elected again and again. It is so obvious.We now have the "Financial Crisis" and the nation is depressed and hopeless. Good opportunity to decoy people and promise to them to have a better life if they vote for the NPD. To me it seems, as I already said far away but it happens in my country and I know that the NPD have to be taken serious and that we have to fight against this poisoning. Hopefully many people will contribute and fight actively against racism.

Earlybird says on 2009-02-09 18:35:28 about Racism is not everywhere

Hi,
I am a young female student from western Germany and in my city, Bonn, I have hardly ever seen racism. Our society is multicultural, my floormates are Moroccan, Turkish and Persian and on the bus I am listening day by day to Arabic, English, Chinese, French as well as Russian and Polish language and this is quite normal to everybody. I must admit that I am also afraid of the things which currently happen in Eastern Germany, but in my city that is really not the case. Of course there are always narrow- minded idiots who live among us but I have hardly ever seen them. The only problem which I really see in German society is, that, if something happened to another person, even in public places, many people would not have the civil courage to help a person in need.I never experienced something like that but I read about it and find it very alarming. In my opinion everybody should know that one can only be strong and can act in difficult situations if he has the support of the others. Every small child knows that and everybody should act liked that. I know that my English is not perfect but I thought I should demonstrate to you the thoughts of a healthy German mind! If there are any questions I will try to answer them. But please do not think that we are a nation of ignorants, because many people think the way I do and that is kind of encouraging and comforting to me.

tashired says on 2009-01-11 22:56:50 about

I met a german guy who invited me to visit him in Dresden. Based on these comments I feel scared to go. I am from jamaica by the way and we actually (or so I thought), have good relations with Germany; Even an Oktober fest celebration...

tashired says on 2009-01-11 22:56:33 about

I met a german guy who invited me to visit him in Dresden. Based on these comments I feel scared to go. I am from jamaica by the way and we actually (or so I thought), have good relations with Germany; Even an Oktober fest celebrations...

AnthonyS says on 2008-12-24 21:40:21 about Racism in Germany

I lived in Germany for over 5 years, and I have been (as either a tourist or a resident) in about 20 countries around the world so, I believe I qualify to make an informed comment on the subject. Frankly Germany is no more racist than France for example, but because of its history Germany receives more negative comments than other countries. I find it to be unfair because most of these comments are nothing but prejudice. The fact is that the Germans are victims of their own tolerance. Ever since after the war Germans invited millions of foreigners to their country as workers to help rebuild their country. This is was mutually beneficial for both parties until one party (the foreigners) decided that they are going to remain in Germany for good. And that's where Germans made the mistake of allowing that to happen. You see, it's a one thing to come as a contractor to a foreign land, to work and earn very good money and then return to your homeland, and it's a completely different thing to come to a foreign land, use a loophole in the law and remain there permanently then bring not only your family but also all your relatives and even friends and then simply abuse the system to basically rip off the German taxpayer and live your entire life on government benefits. To add insult to injury the foreigner labels everything German around him (the language and specially the culture) as "bad" and "sinful" and basically brings up his children with hatred for everything German. These children grow up and all they see is their parents literally living off Germans taxpayer money and achieving absolute ZERO progress in their personal and professional life. 90% of these children will follow their parents footsteps, in fact that's all they want in life: Receive money for doing nothing and distance themselfs from Germans and German society as far as possible. They attack Germans by calling them "nazis" and "racists" while glorifying their so called pure way of life and their "righteousness". These people are nothing but lazy lying parasites! And when you have over 10 million of this type of people among your population then you shouldn't be suprised when racism shows its ugly head. And when on top of these lazy lying parasites (who in their vast majority are Turks) you add also millions of refugees Germany took between 1991 and 2006 then you can imagine why racism has unfortunately found a fertile ground in Germany, specially in the East which is yet to be fully developed and reach the same living and working standarts as the West. So, the problem is not Germany and Germans, the problem is the ungrateful, manipulating, lying, deceiving, lazy and sometimes down right criminally minded foreigner that brings heat on him and unfortunately on many thousands of hard working, tolerant and thankful migrants in Germany who have achieved everything they wanted by accepting their hosts, by working for their money and by being open minded and friendly. It's time for the German government to grow some spine and: a)Reform the Welfare System, b)Reduce the annual number of refugees it accepts, c)Deport foreigners with a serious criminal record back to their country of origin and d)Strip the citizenship of any naturalized person who has commited a serious criminal offence.

john says on 2008-11-11 19:51:37 about

Of all the places I have been to in the world, Germany and Austria are the most vile racist countries ever. It is a shameful western democracy and has obviously learnt nothing from its revolting history of death and degradation. The Europeans like to make snide comments about America but, as an “ethnic� student at Princeton University, I can tell you that America is very progressive and I have not encounter a single iota of racism anywhere here. As an exchange student trying to learn the German language and understand its culture at the Goethe Institute in Munich (how wrong I was to even bother) I was only treated rudely, disrespectfully and practically as a subhuman, even by store cashiers and cleaners. Good way to leave an impression on someone who only showed interest in your dreadful country! Though I have successfully learnt German (I wonder how many Germans have any interest in a non-European language), I will never bother speaking the language of fascism again. This is the story I tell every American, who have every right to be proud of their society.

If there is a mark of civilization, then hear this: Germany’s legacy in the world has been anything but civilized since the age of Romanticism ended during the fin de siecle. It has not contributed anything but death and violence to the world; all its great poets and philosophers have long since decomposed, and nothing good is left. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Pan says on 2008-08-19 17:04:59 about All above - German Racism

I live in London. Saying Germany isn't racist because other countries are worse is nonsense! It's racism regardless of who's doing it - black to white to black and so on. I recently went to Germany, & ignored the many comments I heard to do so - only now I believe the warnings. East Germany is really xenophobic. I was humiliated in public because my German wasn't up to standard & ignored by people I spoke to in German daily. Despite being a thick-skinned sunny person I began to withdraw & hoped my West Germany half of the trip would be different...but I found that the people there just weren't aware of their own prejudices instead, although they were friendlier. It's not just black-white racism. It's actual Xenophobia...as for the 'anon' above speaking about people keeping to their own countries...if we did that in the beginning we'd all still be African - I imagine that's what you wanted is it? I don't care, but your paragraph of 'racialism' indicates that is the case. I am of mixed origin and British, and find that frankly, closed-minded. Geneticism isn't the only thing that comprises nationality. I don't think that kind of small-mindedness is the answer. People should be able to get along regardless of where they come from.

keri says on 2008-08-11 10:57:58 about racism

is it really that bad? i am a white 21 yr old female and my boyfriend (who is black) and i were invited to germany for a year to help our friend (who is in the army) out with his newborn baby.. i just wanted to know if we should really go. i would rather be safe than sorry. pls help me out!

Aziz says on 2008-08-02 18:17:48 about Racism in Germany

Hi,

I agree with the content. I am an engineer, and working in germany, and quite well educated. I must say, racism in germany is deep deep rooted. People which proclaim to be open appears to be quite racist in reality.
Since i finished my studies from germany i had to move away from student appartment, and finding a private appartment came out to be a disaster for me. In a month i had visited around 35 appartments and ALL of them have said the similar answer "we will inform you soon" and then they said we have decided for someone else, and the appartment remained empty because there was no one else....
Among those people there were all kinds, but majority was of educated people, which were either working, or studying in the university or doing their phds.

I must say that hitler is still alive deep inside the heart of germans, they will never never respect you and never accept you. Its for them completely irrelevant if you are a highly educated and cultured person or if you are a layman.

i must say , dont get disappointed if you are of dark skin, african , asian , or someone non-white.. you are not at all welcome in germany... for them you are an animal, and will remain an animal..

Tom says on 2008-07-31 19:14:02 about

Hallo Andrea,

was soll dieses geschwafel von dir eigentlich? Was erzählst du hier Lügen über angebliche menschenunwürdige Flüchtlingsunterkünfte?
Belege bitte!!
Ist es nicht vielmehr so, dass es diesen Menschen in den ach so menschunwürdigen Unterkünften um ein vielfaches besser geht als dort wo sie herkamen?
Was soll diese dumme Propaganda?
Ja es gibt Rassisten in Deutschland.
Ich pflege einen , Aufgepasst!, kulturellen "Rassismus" (so nennen doch Linke wie du die Ablehnung sogenannter kultureller EIgenarten wie zb.: Zwangsheirat, Kopftuch- bzw. Burkazwang, Ehrenmorde ect. pp.). Ich kann es nicht akzeptieren , wenn so getan wird als wäre die islamische Kultur der unseren europäisch-christlichen Gleichwertig.
Hat irgendjemand mal die angestammte deutsche Bevölkerung gefragt, ob sie es überhaupt möchte, dass sich in ihrem Land Abermillionen kulturfremde Ausländer niederlassen?
Es gibt kein gottgegebenes Recht in Deutschland staatliche Leistungen zu beziehen.
Was denkst du eigentlich über türkische Nationalisten in Deutschland, welche Türkeifahnenschwenkend und allahu akbar schreiend durchs Brandenburger Tor ziehen?
Ist das Deutschlands Zukunft?
Vielleicht kennst du auch Helmut Schmidt (SPD, ehemaliger dt Kanzler).
Dieser Mann sagte 1981: "Es kommt mir kein Türke mehr über die Grenze".
"Mehr Ausländer können wir nicht verkraften, dass gibt sonst Mord und Totschlag.".
Und derlei Aussagen gibt es viele von Cdu über Spd usw.
Wer heute sowas ausspricht begeht gesellschaftlichen Selbstmord. Er würde diffamiert bis zum Äußersten.
Die Antifa schmeißt ihm die Scheiben ein usf..
Deinen verdrängten Rassismus behalt für dich liebe Andrea.
Deutschland ist nun mal das Land der Deutschen und nicht das Weltsozialamt.
Egal wieviel Schuld unsere Vorväter auf sich geladen haben. Ich habe damit nichts zu tun und sehe es einfach nicht ein weshalb es notwendig sein sollte Deutschland zu balkanisieren. Leuten die in Not sind muss geholfen werden , ganz klar. Doch Leuten die sich ihre Importbräute aus Ostanatolien liefern lassen gehören nicht hier her.

Tom says on 2008-07-31 14:27:52 about anti german propaganda

Hi everybody.
I don`t deny that there is racism in germany and i´m sorry for every racist incident that happens in germany, but the picture drawn here about germany has nothing to do with the reality on german streets.
It´s seems to me that non german people think that germans would have a genetically disposition of beeing racist. i´m no racist. but there are some questions you have to think about.
1. Why are 5 million turks and kurds living in germany?
Is it cause they like to be threaten and beaten up everyday?
2. Why are 15 million non-germans live in this country?
3.Why should native germans accept that their country is flooded with low-educated immigrants from arabia?
4. Is it something normal, that there are today nearly 3000 mosques in germany?
5. Can you probably imagine that there are germans who are afraid of getting strangers in their own country?
6. Is it racist if arab youths beat up german kids yelling "fuckin german"?

Cute says on 2008-06-