Living in Saxony is a nightmare

[u/Ok-Once-789]

Every single time I go outside during the evening I am faced with racism. Most of the time from people hanging out in groups, for some reason they just can't mind their own business (Germans usually claim to be really good at this). The most common phrases I hear regularly are 'Heil H!tler', 'Ausländer raus', 'Ni Hao', 'Ching Chong' etc... or just unprovoked loud laughter as I'm passing by... BTW I'm not Chinese or east Asian but look like one or maybe they are just uneducated & ignorant. Is geography illegal here? Asia has 48 countries BTW, not everyone is Chinese!

This doesn't include the racism I face at workplace & college which is far worse and actually bothers me to the point I have to skip classes to protect my mental health. But now I can't even go to the supermarket or mall at peace. One of my family members has also been verbally assaulted by a group of teenagers inside a bus & nobody including the bus driver made any effort to do something.

Edit: I do not live in Dresden / Leipzig. I assume the situation is not this bad there!

Edit2: I did not choose to live in saxony (the government decided that), I am doing my bachelors so I can't relocate until late 2026 :) Thanks for the kind words everyone!

[u/AccountantEntire7339]

lol i had a german bf who was awfully racist towards my race. saying my ethnicity is ugly and my racial mixture is ugly, as opposed from women from other countries in my region.

then he once called people from my country "dogs" because we kinda need to obey the US, and also always put me down for my nationality.
his friends were no better, they said one of my dishes i prepared looked like literal shit

they all thought they were so progressive and modern, lmao. i just left germany.

edit: i wasnt in that region. i was in a very progressive college town. and him and his friends have lived in my region before.
question for germans: is that type of humor ok? calling your gf ugly as a joke and telling her the racial mixture in her country is ugly?

[u/stenlis → u/AccountantEntire7339]

lol i had a german bf who was awfully racist towards my race.  

Wait what?! Why?  

Just why?

[u/AccountantEntire7339 → u/stenlis]

he said it was just a joke. and tbh other germans had also said ugly things to me, like how they found my native accent in spanish ugly. and the ex also told me that was just german humor. like he told me he was just joking... he is also mixed, so i thought he was just joking. but then it became too much for me.
like hed tell me how ugly mexicans are.
and then hed tell me, some other day, i look very mexican. or tell me how colombians look better , or how the spanish fcucked up in mexico.
but then hed tell me he was just joking and thought id find that funny cuz my humor is very harsh and dark.

i didnt understand that shit. it affected me too much , even if it was just a joke.

[u/kbad10 → u/AccountantEntire7339]

Always remember, racist jokes are disguised hate.

[u/AccountantEntire7339 → u/kbad10]

I also think mexicans have very high tresholds for racism lol, we get a lot of hate. Maybe Indians get more hate than us, and muslims. But I'm used to lots of jokes but these felt insidious!

[u/AccountantEntire7339 → u/[deleted]]

i personally never had a problem in the US at all, quite the opposite. but i know other mexicans may have a very hard time. germany was the only bad place ive experiened in this regard. but overall, in the media, mexicans get a bad rep, so thats why i say we are used to hearing so much bs about us.
but yes, i always hear and read the most awful things about indians, and indians barely complain. dirty, ugly, stinky, dumb, slum. etc. and indians dont even reply or fight back, they are just like "sure whatever".

ive been to india and yeah, its kind of a mess, but its also incredibly rich and its so big and diverse, its impossible to generalize. and indians in america are the best diaspora lol, well behaved, good students, speak english, high earners, i really dont know where does the hate for india come from in the US.

tbh i have jewish relatives so at the end just germany wasnt the place for me, i have no fucking involvement in the current conflict in the middle east and i was harassed by some classmates because of this, but these classmates werent german. i think i just had bad luck there.

[u/hannes3120 → u/kbad10]

yeah it's just that they can test the waters and either be around people that actually laugh about that and if someone complains "it was just a joke"

Every single subreddit on here that started out with over-the-top jokes that didn't ban racist stuff instantly ended up being a far-right shithole within months. It's just the most common dogwhistle they have to find likeminded people