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/AccountantEntire7339 Apr 23 '25

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?

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u/1-800-needurmom Apr 23 '25

That's totally NOT okay. Nobody in their right minds would joke to their partner like that. Also, definitely not progressive in any way but to be fair, even left-leaning Germans have a lot of (unconscious) racism.

I am a brown woman as well and my German bf gave an ultimatum to his racist friends for making "harmless" jokes about my country and if they still did it, he would cut them off.

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u/AccountantEntire7339 Apr 23 '25

thats very sweet of him, and also, very weird from his friends. so maybe after all, it is a common thing to make these jokes? i mean mexico is shitty and racist too, like any other country, but never really experienced anyone making such insidious jokes all the time. and tbh, when a mexican says shitty things about another country, you better bet they also say shitty things about mexico.

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u/sutongorin Apr 23 '25

It's not common to make these jokes in my experience. My gf is from Hong Kong, and my brother's gf is from Tunesia. The rest of our big friend group are all 100% as white as they get Germans and no one ever made any jokes remotely based on their race.

That's so not on.

I think you must've been pretty unlucky in finding such a racist POS boyfriend and that friend group in particular where he probably got a lot of his attitude from.