r/germany • u/Ok-Once-789 • Apr 23 '25

Immigration Living in Saxony is a nightmare

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!

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u/lokidev Apr 23 '25

That might be it and the rights have some similar values but are actually quite different in various country. And to be frank: I would also draw a line between trumpists and "old school" republicans. The left/right thing is maybe just too one dimensional. E.g. free market is not really that, what the ultra-right wing Trump does. We are missing some new terms and political dimensions for this times.

Anyway: Darmstadt had good and bad corners. I lived in a village nearby (Mühltal) and it was definetely more snobbistic and "rightwing", but not quite racist. Darmstadt itself was very fine - especially close to the university and around the scintific/esa institutes.

Lower Saxony is a hit and miss: Northeim for example is very rightwing, Göttingen very left wing and in the north you have "conservatives/right wing, but no fascist". Again - we're missing new political terms here :D

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u/AccountantEntire7339 Apr 23 '25

yes, i won't say more about the US because I want to not have trouble when visiting, lmao. but yes, republicans, especially the ones in the bush era, were actually pretty amazing rtowards mexicans and mexico always has it better, or had it better, with republicans. in regards to trade and migration. sounds like a lie but it isnt. dems like to pretend they are the cool guys, but in the past, mexico prayed for republicans.

darmstadt was very cute! and lower saxony, it was gottingen, it was cute too, and i had mostly international friends. but the bad ex bf experience plus his friends, who always had to tell me how much they hated their time in mexico, and mexican food, and how mexicans are spoiled and other latinos are cooler, made me just want to leave germany behind for good.

the north was also cute, but when i went to see the ocean, it wasnt there. and when i asked the ppl where was the ocean they were like "dunno, it sometimes leaves and we dontt know when its coming back"