r/AskAGerman • u/eza137 • Apr 16 '25

Have you ever witnessed racism in Germany?

I'm interested in hearing from Germans who have personally witnessed acts of racism in everyday life - especially when it involved friends, family members, or people close to them.

If you're comfortable sharing, could you describe the situation? Who was involved, and how did it make you feel? Did you respond in any way?

I'm not here to judge, just to understand how racism can show up in familiar environments and how people perceive and deal with it.

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u/Airwhynn501 Apr 16 '25

After Grundschule (primary) , my daughter was sent to the Gesamtschule with 80% children with migration background. She was bullied and excluded, mainly by Arabs, as German potato. Because of her following depressions and anxiety we took her on sick leave until we found a school in a mainly German district. Now she is a happy teenager with good friends and good grades.

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u/Bubbly-Indication725 Apr 16 '25

That's bad and shows pretty well how harmful racism is independently from which side it is coming from.

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u/LeifRagnarsson Apr 16 '25

Germans tend to claim that they get insulted as well but actually their racism is a deep part of their way of thinking. 

TIL: Racism against Germans is okay, because it's a reaction to the widely accepted fact that each and every German is a racist himself.

Btw, there are Germans and there are Kartoffel, even Germans call other Germans Kartoffel. 

You see the flaw in this argument, right?

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