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    Hi Anthony

    posted by  Dave Mc Cann in Germany forum 

    I’m Irish and I have worked for a few years in the London and have also worked in Germany and lived in Germany.
    I would fully admit that the Irish can be raciest but in your story you said the Irish called you all sorts of things in Gaelic, this I find very hard to believe. I’m ashamed to say, most Irish can’t speak Irish these days and cursing at someone in Irish just doesn’t happen. Why would you when everyone who can speak Irish can also speak English.
    I have I have to say found the English to be least racist after the Dutch, the best people on the planet.
    I also have to say although at this stage most of my friends are German they are extremely racist without even knowing it. My ex lived in an apartment block where nobody (except me) talked to one of the family’s because they were Turkish. And nobody say anything wrong with this. They weren’t in my opinion even Turkish they were born in Germany.
    My German friends would say they are not racist but they just don’t like Indians, or I don’t trust the Polish or … they actually don’t believe they are being racist. I get my head bitten off anytime I say that that is raciest.
    Other examples would be – At Christmas when flying back to Germany from Dublin a lot the flights to Frankfurt were cancelled or delayed. It had been in the news for a week that there were problems with de-icer for the runway in Frankfurt. The Germans when the delay was announced started saying things like “typical Irish inefficiency” and “typical Irish incompetence” loudly not in German but in English. If they had looked at the news during the week they would have known the problem was at Frankfurt or looked at the departure board they would see the only departures with delays were to Frankfurt and Berlin.
    I also went with my girlfriend to a German hotel in Bulgaria and everyone was really nice to me. But I did notice in the morning we all queued for breakfast all nice and well mannered. But as soon as we all went to a waterpark and mixed with other nationalities the same Germans would walk to the top of the queue say “Germans don’t queue”. Again not seeing that this is in anyway wrong.
    So I do love the Germans for a lot of things and they are very often a very kind people but they are racist, often without even meaning to be.

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