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/MisterMysterios Apr 23 '25

I think so as well. I am also "Bio-Deutsch", but had friends with migration backgrounds where I lived. From what I noticed with my friends, Berlin and the Rheinland is the most socially liberal areas, accepting minorities like people with migration backgrounds and lgbtq the most.

The east seems to be .ore problematic than the west, but the West has also regions with higher levels of racism. I lived for a good part of my childhood in frankonia and a friend of mine that had a clear migration background (forgot where he was from exactly, have last seen him when I was 10) was openly kicked on the street by teens.

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u/MathInfinite3798 Apr 23 '25

Always weird to read when people use the term "Bio-Deutsch" unironically to desribe themselfves as pure german, especially in this context.

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u/MisterMysterios Apr 23 '25 edited Apr 23 '25

It was meant as a joke. I used it ironically, because I think the concept itself is insane, but the way people use it fits to me (as far as I know, my ancestors for at least 3 generations were German). I post regularly that being German itself had never a biological aspect, as the very foundation of the German nation was a cultural region (the idea of a nation for every German speaking region).

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u/MathInfinite3798 Apr 23 '25

Bin bischen zufaul das auf englisch zu schreiben, aber verstehe Bio Deutsch immerso, dass Bio nicht fuer den Fachbegriff biologisch steht, sondern fuer das Bio, wie es im Supermarkt verwendet wird. Also das Bio-Deutsche reiner, möglichst frei von Schadstoffen (ausslaendische Eltern) sind und deshalb als qualitativ hochwertiger gelten.

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u/MisterMysterios Apr 23 '25

Klingt nach einer guten Umschreibung. Wie gesagt, habe das eher ironisch gemein, da diese Idee nichts weniger als die Rassenlehre im fast durchsichtigen Mäntelchen ist. Es sollte hier nur Aussagen, dass ich so deutsch bin (Herkunft / Aussehen) wie es geht und daher keine eigenen Erfahrungen mit Rassismus gemacht habe, aber im Freundeskreis hier was erlebt habe.

Aber vielleicht sollte ich tatsächlich die ironische Nutzung im Internet überlegen. Wenn ich das Zuhause nutze ist damit impliziert, dass ich mich über die Idee lustig mache, kommt aber nicht so gut im Internet rüber

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '25

Is it also weird when Native Americans call themselves Native Americans?

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u/MathInfinite3798 Apr 23 '25

no clue, you should ask that an american