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    Buenos días

    posted by  John Lovejoy in Germany forum 

    @G.N.
    America is easy to assimilate because it’s not a mono culture and they make you feel welcome by not singling you out or treating you different.
    Everybody is from somewhere else or a descendant of immigrants.
    So it’s easy to assimilate and to, to use your words become a fan but you don’t have to.
    No pressure.
    You also don’t have to give up being proud of you Spanish heritance to be a good equally accepted American.
    It’s a totally none issue and you can also be as Spanish as want to be.
    You can also speak crappy English and in some regions don’t even need it all.
    We don’t have an official language.
    English is just the easiest for people to communicate.
    With 50.5 million Hispanics, Spanish is the 2nd most used language.

    Oh yeah, can’t tell you how often I have heard in Germany that the US is a racist nation usually from people that don’t speak any English and or have never been there.
    Makes you wonder about their media and education system.
    ( I can’t watch German TV anymore , though I understand the language.
    They narrate as if you where a child or not too bright in the attic.
    IMHO It’s kind of insulting talking to adults like that).

    Germany is harder because there is little respect for your or other cultures.
    You are expected to give that up, pay homage to theirs and your worth or standing in the German community is determined by how fast and well you can Germanize yourself.
    So compared to the US it’s a more one sided relationship.
    But also depends on what kind a crowd you’re hanging with.

    Edit
    P.S. Just like Naija guy said your skin tone/ethnicity is kind of the first thing people tend to see in Germany and judge you by when they don’t know you.
    To put this in context, everything exterior is also judged in Germany.
    From you clothing, how you dress, keep yourself, carry yourself, what kind of a car you drive, where you live ect. and determines how people treat you at first sight…not just your skin color.

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