Black in Germany: Are Germans Racist? Living in Germany as a black foreigner
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Lets talk about Being Black in Germany. Are Germans Racist? Living in Germany as a foreigner, specifically being black in Germany I have been getting this question a lot either in the comments or in my DMs. That’s why I have decide to share my personal experience on this topic in this video. Let me point out that my personal experience is not the experience of every single black person in Germany. This is strictly my personal experience which might be a bit different due to the fact that I am living in Berlin. When I was planning to move to Germany, I searched a lot for videos of people of colour living in Germany especially black people living in Germany to hear their stories and experiences on what its like being black in Germany or living as a black person in Germany. Every little video and story they shared went a long way in helping me have an idea what life in Germany would be like for me. That's why I make all these videos sharing experiences from my perspective not only as a black woman living in Germany but also as a black African woman living in Germany.
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Hello there friends! Please share your thoughts on the storytine I shared towards the end of the video! Do you think the man and his wife were racist or they are just rude and unfriendly humans 😊
I think you are racist, stop expecting handouts.
I SO understand your triggers, and you reacted absolutely right. With some people, it's not so much about racism. It's about bad manners in general. Loved your video and personality and giggles 😁
Best greets from Cologne to Berlin!
You are so bubbly and your energy is just so fun. I cannot believe the audacity of those people!!!!!
I know right 😂🤣😂🤣 I laughed so hard after the whole episode at the dramaticness of it all. Thanks for watching 😁
I love your story telling and your giggle❤️ These are the same kind of neighbors that are annoyed by children playing in the yard. There are some crazy people around, best to just let them be crazy🤪
Thank you for your kind comment ❤ I like the comment phrase "let crazy people be crazy"😅
I think in Germany and depends really on where you are. A big and open minded city like Berlin or Hamburg is less reacist then smaller cities or villages. I am glad that you didn't face anything too crazy in Germany.
You are absolutely right. Location makes all the difference with people's experiences in Germany. But then again, I also read in the new today tat a man faced racist encounter in Berlin (in the Eastern part: again location) so sometimes you just never know.
@@Waleochronicles That's true...too bad there are stupid and ignorant people everywhere :-(
Why should smaller towns or cities be more racist? It's just big city hipster bashing on the non big cities. As if the people there aren't connect to the world of today and hunt everyone foreign looking with sticks and candles. Most violence and clashes, higher crimes rates are all in the bigger cities.
Especially the smaller cities in Germany took a larger part of refugees, proportionally, and there are no signs showing more or less racist behavior. Nowadays, people from rural areas have studied in some larger city and traveled around the world pretty much like their counterparts from the metropolitan areas. I guess you'll find more people in Munich who have never left their hometown than in Bad Wildungen.
Racism grows where people are dissatisfied with their own situation. Then they start to blame "someone" and, of course, always the government.
I would guess that as well, size and economics matter. The bigger and „richer“ a city or town, the less racist,I would assume - at least that’s my experience (well, my friends‘).
I never faced any racism in Germany either but I did have a lot of guys of other races that tried to date me. I had so much fun in Germany and I wish I would have stayed instead of moving back to the states.
Love your hair 😍
I live in Brandenburg and I'm black.
Honestly, it's really, really bad and I feel really, really bad here. The amount of racism that i faced here is huge.
It's clearly not a place to live if you're a person of colour. That's why I'm in Berlin almost every day to spend some time until I find somewhere to live.
It's really very serious. I know that Germans aren’t that bad because i have a lot of German friends in Berlin, but if i wouldn’t, i think that i would have hated the Germans just because of those bad experiences.
(It’s just based of my own experience and i just wanna say that we all have different experiences)
I love the way you talk freely. Maybe it's because I finally started my podcast and know that composure is everything but yeah, keep it up 👏🏾
You're lucky I can't like a video twice cause I for run am for you now now as e dey hot 😅
We love to watch people in Europe, that's how the cafés in Paris came into being, sitting around for hours and looking at people. in the USA people live in cars, in Europe on the street and on foot. there are extra squares -piazas. so has nothing to do with your skin color, it's eiropean and great.everyone is curious about the other and flirting is also part of it. the US Americans could find out a bit about our culture before they come to us and then complain. they are your complexes from the USA.
I think the trick is to remain normal. People are people everywhere and if they see something unusual, then staring, questions, weird curiosity, preconceived notions are normal.
I guess its a german thing to stare at everything at normal (I guess i do that too)
the staring is also called "the german stare". It is something that every foreigner notice, regardless of skin color.
I am an elder guy, back in the time, when one moved somewhere it was common to introduce oneself to the neighbors. This way the guy might have known you're not from Africa. And the first encounter might have happend under a little more controlled circumstances. It might well be you would have come to the conclusion not to team up with them, because rude people are rude all the time.
I think you dropped a clanger (I hope this is the right translation). One of the most common reasons for a neighborhood fight is noise nuisance from neighbors. Hard to tell if it really was racism or just anger. I hope I can get all my thoughts into words. Especially old houses have thin walls and you can hear your neighbors. Footsteps or loud music for example. If you want you could look into "Nachbarschaftskrieg" or "Nachbarschaftsstreit". You find a lot of videos here about war between neighbors. From my personal experience I know how people feel if the neighbor is too noisy. If you have a lot of stress at work because of bad working climate for example and you only have these two free days and which one day is normally just sleeping and the neighbor is too noisy I would be angry as well. Of course if it only happen in one case it is something you can talk properly through so that the person understands. Many employees here are overworked in Germany if I consider this social issue. This is of course no excuse for rude behavior. Sometimes you not only have to find a good arpartment but good neighbors as well. Something you don't find in the discription. Especially workers or pensioner like a quiet neighborhood. People in the age between 20-30 are still in the age for party and fun. I could write more and with more detail but the YT comment section is not good place for a detailed conversation/explanation.
I was looking forward to reading you comment on this topic 😊 As I explained to my friends, my ex neighbours were just rude humans (not sure if they are racist though). Thanks for always leaving a comment 😊
I can so see the scene with the child in the supermarket! 😂
German staring is usually not racist, because we do it to everyone, who looks interesting in any way (actual looks, fashion, movement, anything) or just to entertain ourselves by thinking up stories about their life.
I;m gradually coming to this conclusion myself. thanks for sharing this insight
I think IT depends where in Germany you live - in Eastern parts of Brandenburg and Saxony IT could be dangerous
14:26 To be fair, the African accent is very distinct. The only accent I’ve heard that sound similar are a few Caribbean accents
Do the Russians, Germans, French and English people sound the same? Is there a European accent?
@@Waleochronicles Since Arabs are also part of the Middle East, I didn’t bother to specify. There is a huge accent different between them and the countries located below them Kenya, Nigeria ect. Arabs aside, when I’ve met an African 9/10 I have guessed correctly that they are African. The linguistic similarities make the accents similar.
Yeah the Germans used to totally take advantage of me verbally until I learned German,...That seconds delay is real..But now! I let los on them like they never expect!
My brothers in the military he's about 27 years old he's been stationed in Hawaii Germany and he's currently in California he told me that I need to get out of the United States he told me that Germany would be a good place it's just me and my daughter but I'm scared of sex trafficking should I be scared of that and other places cuz it's not in work what would I do about work if I don't have a degree should I get a degree here first or get a degree he also said education you don't have to pay for it like in America and I was shocked
Can someone tell me why I see so many BM rave about Germany and recommend it to others, but BW say the opposite? Are women in Germany in general treated different than the men, or is it just BW. In my limited exposure to Blacks living in Germany content, I've seen a big difference in the experiences. And no I'm not talking about passport bro experiences.The male channels I look at are by BM who have been living there for years and have built families there.
Please don't see always racism. What do you think will happen to me (white northern german), if I would visit a small african village? Yes. The same as if I would visit a small bavarian village.
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT TO HAPPEN TO YOU IF YOU VISITED AN AFRICAN VILLAGE OR A BAVARIAN VILLAGE? WHAT EVER YOUR EXPECTATIONS, THEY WILL MANIFEST INTO YOUR REALITY. IF YOUR EXPECTAIONS AND VIBRATIONS IS BASED ON FEAR......THE UNIVERSE WILL SEND A REALITY THAT REFLECT ALL YOUR FEARS......BLESSINGS.
Talking with smiles and trying to hide recism and discrimination is not a solution. I have much experience not welcoming people. And they don't tell you directly that does not mean recism does not exist. German people condemned that exists in reality. Picture what you see and reality both are different. Many times I take initiative to start integrating but 80% of the people I saw don't like to integrate because I am a foreigner. Only 20 % of foreigners were lucky enough because they met some good people.
As an African,l know that won't happen to you, people here love foreigners, especially in the villages people are friendly and they love to show there culture to other people
Im also leaving in Germany ma'am. I agree with you 💯
Berlin
Living*
Hi! I think, a main issue is, that germans are all in all mostly conservative thinking and acting people. Therefor, changes in social or public society take their time to be established here. For long lime, germany was not seen as a country, were immigration takes place ( instead of it already HAS BEEN such a place since the 50ties, when the german government started camaigns to invent workers from other countries - first especially italian, greek, spanish and slavic people....later mainly from turkey - there was a big lack of workers because many german workers had been killed in world war 2.) Thecgerman government and the german people expected the so called "Gastarbeiter" ( guest workers) not to stay in germany. They thought, that after a few years they would return to their homelands.... - but they didn't!! Most of them stayed because of the - compared to their homelands - better living conditions in germany and also invited their families to join them here!
The german government and people refused to see that ( new conditions always take a lot of time to establish in germany, brcause the germans are very traditional oriented in their thinking...) and so everydays life is still not totally reflecting the indeed high number of immigrants/people from other countries that meanwhile had come to germany in the way, that is reflecting this phenomenon . During the last decades, things have become better, but germany is a very buresucratical concepted country and so things need time to change to the better....germans aren't bad people, but sadly they tend to stuck to their traditions and are not very flexible, when it comes to urgent needs in a world that changes faster and faster.
Perhaps this stay help you understanding, why life in germany still needs a lot of changes towards taking more care for the situations of its immigrants!
In addition it makes a difference, where in germany you are! You shall not forget, that the eastern part has a complete different history then the west! East germany was a part of the soviet block until 1989 and tgerefor was complete isolated until the Berlin wall fell. The rural living east german people didn't experience the presence of peoples from other places ( except some russians) until tge 1990ties - especially not of colored people - and they stiill are suffering from the fact, that their general living conditions are not as good as tgey are for people in the western part of germany: So its a double issue fir them, when they are confronted with immigrants with another color of skin: First they use not to know such people living in their neighborhood and tend to stereotype them following wrong images from yesterday - and second they fear to get into something like a "social and work competition" with immigrants .... people, who's causes for their leaving of their home countries they don't really understand, because they actually don't know, what problems use to exist in those for them "strange" countries where the immigrants come from. For 40 years they hadn't the opportuity to leave germany and experience life in other places of the world.
And last its sad, but true .... there are certain politicians, which are well recognized especially in eastern germany, that use to discriminate and diffame immigrants and refuguees to get poltical advantages from the scepticism of eastern german people against "strangers" from other countries. The problematic situation of high poverty in rural parts of eastern germany gives those politicians a perfideous pretext, to use prejustices for their purposes....
Espeially "problematic areas" for immigrants are generally the borderlands to polands and czechia, the "*ostsee"- coastlands of Mecklenburg- Vorpommern and Brandenburg because that are very poor areas and they generally are not very open to strangers, because of the extremly negative working infra-structure they often have to live from tourism and are not very lucky with that....
The extremly northeast parts are very "special" because of the bad infra-structure and poverty there. They have a large tendency to seperate themselves from strangers, even other germans, are often very "backwards minded" and most of them have never left their own territory and so they aren't experienced in relations to people from outside! - i know that, because i lived there for some years! - Its sad, but it is how it is....
Generally, germans are often not educated to show their emotions, especially the older people. "Work" is a very "important" thing here and many people define themselves only through how hard and successful they "work". Its sadly our mentality and part of the german mindset and its hard to hold against it!
For me, color of skin or where people come from, doesn't count! - We are all humans and have to respect each other!!
I like to say to you and all other people that like to come to germany, a sincere *WELCOME!! GERMANY NEEDS YOU AND HAS TO TREAT YOU AS FRIENDS, BROTHERS AND SISTERS!!*
Hope you're doing well! - Greetz!
Germans are racist af. Even the young ones.
I live in Hamburg and an honest question: I once saw a black woman that looked just fabulous due to her dress and just her figure. Obviously, I and a lot of other guys stared, because she just looked great, and (in a predominantly white country) stook out as "exotic". My point is: Obviously people would strare, but for a "good" reason, but this be misconstrued to be racism?
Sometimes I feel ashamed for people like your former neighbours 😅
MINDSET-I AM A CITIZEN OF THIS BEAUTIFUL PLANET, COMFORTABLE IN MY SKIN.......ANYWHERE....SKIN COLOR NOT EVEN A SECOND THOUGHT........BLESSINGS.
Hello hi hope you well I'm a qualified electrician, I'm looking to move to Germany I'm from South Africa any advice how I could move there
I’ve never known a culture to be so ridiculous about noise and disturbances.
AVOID LIVING IN THE "BLACK' BOX......OF FEAR
Hi Waleo, I just came across your channel and after watching your bubbly personality in this video I decided to join in.
First of all - the German staring. We seem to be famous for it without being aware of it. Many expats talk about this and I must say it was news to me. If you have'nt already watch the video Hayley Alexis did about this: YT/watch?v=nQ7wU5jY0R0. I think she really nailed it there. And besides - I'm afraid you're going to have to deal with it due to the fact that you're obviously a very pretty lady (NO, not coming on to you here in any way. Would be kind of creepy if I, as a 56y old geezer, would do that)😁.
And in regards to your ex neighbours I think you're right in assuming that that was no racism. Just nasty people with no manners who think the world spins around them and them alone or as we say in Germany "Mit dem D-Zug durch die Kinderstube gerauscht". When it happened to me one time that the father of a good friend would simply ignore me I turned the tables on him by being extra friendly to him because I knew it drove him nuts and he didn't know how to respomd to it...🤣🤣.
I'm glad that you didn't experience more hate or racism and surely enough Berlin as a multi cultural city plays a role in this. Unfortunately you will meet racism all over the world. Mostly from narrow minded people who never travelled outside their country. It's true what they say that "Reisen bildet".
Somewhere along the evolution of mankind white people decided that they were superior to people of different skin colours. Totally oblivious to the fact that mankind originated in Africa and spread througout the world from there. Hey, we're all the same! There are good people and bad people in the world - the colour of your skin is in no way any indicator to which group you belong to!
Your story time 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂they are messing with the wrong African lady 🙆🏾♀️😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂 we have been very well trained in Nigeria to be able to stand up for ourselves. I cant stop laughing anytime I tell the story 😂
😂😂 I know, my dear I won’t also shrink just because am in a foreign country 😂😂, you stare, I stare back. It took me back to a time I was in Manchester and this other lady in the department store want to touch my boobies and bum to see if they are real. I told her “let me touch yours first” she quickly apologized 😂😂. But us Namibians are so reserved 🙆🏾♀️. Am Namibian by blood but Nigerian by character 😂😂
@@lettakyjoy omg!!!! 🤣😂🤣😂 I never heard this before! This is another level. I like how you just reciprocated her energy and she immediately received sense 🤣😂
@@Waleochronicles people tend to mess with others when you are being extra nice😂😂, my friend is married to a Germany hubby (but they are based in UK) and so they went to visit the In-laws and they had a barbecue and she made them potato salad 😂😂the question after that was like so “J” her name: do you eat potatoes salad in the bush in Africa or was it your hubby who taught you to make it?😂😂 until this day that story always gets me rolling on the floor. I understand the person who ask had no idea what Africa was about. 2nd zero history knowledge because Namibia was colonized by the Germans hence why most of their food are part of our Namibian dishes and our coastal towns look like some German towns😂😂. Eating salad in the bushes of Africa killed me 🙆🏾♀️😂😂
@@lettakyjoy Estee die mense, they are not serious, one asked how the war and hunger crisis are in Namibia. Toe se nie meme i never saw war. I also stare back bra.
We can always choose our appartments but not our nebghiours!!
You've got that right. Thankfully I have moved. 😀
Why this headline ? Some are ,,, some are not....but as to Germany all questions are wellcome?
That was hilarious xD
We thinking of moving to Germany.
Great! Very good country to relocate to in Europe.
Do I have to learn German in order to stay for ever?
@@benjaminkohl5681 yes, if you want to call it a home you will habe to learn the language
@@benjaminkohl5681 Hi! In the beginning its good to speak english, because most gerrmans understand english and also speak it a bit! To stay longer its necessary to learn german, because otherwise you'll never have the chance to integrare perfectly.
But don't be afraid - yo'll get a lot of help: The goverment provides pay-free german language courses - and its like everywhere: The longer you stay in germany, tge more social contacts you have, the faster you learn tge language.... - and its not that difficult, as often it is told! Its far more difficult to learn f.e, chinese or an asian language, for we have the same alphabet as every european or anglo-american country!! - Thousands and thousands of other normal immigrants have learned it - and yo'll be like that too!!
For me and many fellow germans you are WELCOME!! Germany needs engaged and friendly people from everywhere! You see - you easily will find friends .... and you'll get a lot of help and support by the goverment and my fellow german people!!
best wishes and again: YOU'RE WELCOME!!!
Duolingo has German
It's the welcome for me lol
Can I get your contact? WhatsApp, IG or Twitter or whatever app you choose. I have a couple of questions and I don't want to spam you here sha. Thanks in advance 😅
Racism kills
True words
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Nope
THERE ARE NO "RACIST" PEOPLE OR PLACES.........THERE IS ONLY YOU.......THE CREATOR...
Do you have a Muslim friend? 👀😂
My ex flat mate is actually Muslim. I guess our neighbor couldn't stand that level of diversity 😂
Of course most..lol
You Africans make a lot of noise 🤣🤣🤣
Same way u Americans behave crazily alot of times
@@tessachinelo8482 how do you know the user is an American? And why bring up such a comment when the video doesn't talk about Americans.
@@sakyichristine927 I replied his comment not the video be guided
@@tessachinelo8482 I am guided but you are not. You assumed the user was an American when anybody can make such a comment.