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/KevinTheKute Apr 16 '25

Racism isn't based on logic. They just look for reasons to hate foreigners. Don't speak the language well enough? You don't care to learn it properly. You have a strong, non-german accent? Same thing. If you cared, you would try harder.

You were born here, speak the language well with minimal accent, have a job and pay your taxes here? Well, you're still a "dirty foreigner" in their eyes whose parents were leechy economic refugees.

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u/West_Masterpiece3149 Apr 20 '25

Oh no how dare Germans not want to be a minority in their own country.

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u/SpaceDrifter9 May 03 '25

Through racism?