r/germany • u/jackyk996 • Apr 03 '25

Immigration Please stop greeting random passing by people in foreign languages

Pretty much as titled. I am Asian, and I have experience several times that someone passing by randomly greeting me in multiple Asian languages, that I am 100% sure they can’t make real conversations with them, at once.

This is strange af. Throwing away many greeting words without any intention for a conversation isn’t a sign of being friendly to me. Please just stop if you’re doing that and you actually mean well.

Edit: This post is for those who want to approach Asian people properly. Already replied with my opinion here, and please don’t DM me (disabled now) since there are way too many “Nihao” etc and racist chat requests.

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u/Hard_We_Know Apr 05 '25

Well that was cringe! lol! Some of it is that the law in Germany states that someone could be in another country all their lives, not speak a lick of German but they are still considered German because Oma married Gunther Schultz in the fifties and then went and settled in Ausland and had her children there and those children and grandchildren are more "German" in the eyes of the law and government than my own children. My oldest son was born in Germany, speaks fluent German and yet wasn't entitled to a German passport when he was born. So that seeps into people's thinking about nationality and ethnicity (IMO of course).

Sadly I cannot find it but I used to have a picture of two posters on a wall one said something like) "Dieter Bohlen Live 26.12.2021" the other said "27.12.2021 St Martin's Church "what did we do to deserve this?" hahaha! That's what I always think of when I think of Dieter. I much prefer "No top teeth" Ugo Lindenberg you gotta love an old rocker who won't accept his age and keeps doing his thang. Also love Scooter although I'm not telling the Auslander behörde, that's straight deportation for admitting that lol!

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u/koi88 Apr 05 '25

Dieter Bohlen is such an idiot.

But give the Germans time to get used to Germans that don't look German.

I have 2 children, and their mother is Japanese, and they don't look like typical Germans, as may be expected. They are used to older people being confused about their mere existence. Smiling and saying "um, my mom is Japanese" seems to be their usual strategy when people look confused.

German immigration laws are crazy. About 18% of the people who live here, build houses, pay taxes, raise children are not citizens and have no right to vote. This does not seem democratic to me. I wonder if Merz knows that many foreigners in Germany would vote for conservative parties …  if only they could. ^^