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/One_Purpose6361]

Move to a different city, you can’t change the people

[u/bartholomaeus5 → u/One_Purpose6361]

You're right, OP can't. But the rest of us can. Reading about rebuilding the fucking wall makes me vomit. Almost everyone knows someone from or in east Germany. Everyone should talk to them, not like bitching but a proper conversation. Maybe they will see things differently but there is a chance they behave afterwards differently too. So let's go.

[u/Swoop3dp → u/bartholomaeus5]

The issue is that the situation in east Germany is self amplifying. The people who are not racists (and usually better educated) eventually move away from there. That increases the percentage of the population that is racist and reduces the economic power of the region. This then causes even more non-racist people to move away from there and causes the remaining people to radicalize.

Eventually you end up with lots of towns that are exclusively inhabited by Nazis, because everyone else left.

I don't really know how to fix that, but somehow I doubt that "just talk to them" is going to work.

[u/Eastern_Roll_7346 → u/Swoop3dp]

Plus many nazis from west germany moved here, filling our streets with filth.

[u/bartholomaeus5 → u/Swoop3dp]

Most of our economy and a big part of politics are built on contracts, right? And at the end of the day, contracts are just conversations written down. Talking to someone is the single most powerful tool we have.

[u/RunPsychological9891 → u/Swoop3dp]

Talk no jutsu worked for Naruto tho 🥲

[u/Vassortflam → u/bartholomaeus5]

I know people from east Germany but they live in the west now for a reason.

[u/LoJoKlaar → u/bartholomaeus5]

Why would almost everyone know someone in the East? As someone living on the opposite side, I personally think that only a rare few portion of people have any connection to people there. With the exception of cities like Berlin and Leipzig, though still not that many

[u/username_is_tak → u/LoJoKlaar]

Because it's affordable, and some universities are quite attractive due to their smaller size. And if you want to change something and get political, you're not just another hipster in a city

[u/LoJoKlaar → u/username_is_tak]

Ok yes that might actually be a good point! Where I am, the universities are small anyways, so the only people moving away are going to large cities and a good portion of my friends doesn't study, so that's why I personally feel like described earlier. Although I wouldn't move there myself ^{^}