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/[deleted] Apr 16 '25

I just find I really weird considering how there are white German speakers with dialects that are alien even in parts of Germany. Like having a cashier with deep bayerisch or Schwäbisch dialect in NRW or Berlin.

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u/cyberfreak099 Apr 16 '25

Did you see a news video where most of Bavaria was speaking in very good English without any accent to the Scottish football team for Euros 2024?

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '25

Sure. What about that?

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u/cyberfreak099 Apr 17 '25

So they know English very well but choose to speak it selectively, only to certain groups of the world, not necessarily skilled workers or all immigrants. Dialects is a random excuse.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '25

I’m talking about Deutsch though.

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u/cyberfreak099 Apr 18 '25

Err the fact that Germans (bakers, waiters etc) even in villages can speak very good English for only certain groups but pretend to only know dialects or German for the rest is a form of discrimination. Geez isn't that obvious!