Germany forum < Racism in Germany - how bad is it?

  • endless and futile

    posted by Deleted user in Germany forum 

    Dear W.C., I was just about to write an angry reply to your second to last post, but then I read your last comment.
    But still, I can only disagree, not only to your post, but to several others. It is one thing to complain about ugly incidents with Germans, but another to read "that hatred is ingrained in our blood", we only try to "wash away our Hitler past", "we only bring foreigners here to make their life miserable", etc.
    Seems we Germans are not the only racists around here, innit?
    Oh, and of course there is nothing quite as endearing to Germans as calling us Nazis, wow, we totally love that.
    But seriously, I teach classes at a vocational school and we have Germans, Turks, Arabs, Russians, Poles, Kurds, Czechs, Iranians, Vietnamese, etc. and it seems to work fairly well. No gangs of jackbooted Skinheads roaming around, no swastika graffiti, no nothing.
    Not that there are no tensions, mind you, but nothing quite fitting to the image that is created here.
    Oh, and about Brits not being near as bad racists:
    I got spat at in London by a bunch of yobs yelling out "Kill the huns"- they had heard me talking to some of my pupils in German.
    That didn´t make me think that all British people are like that, but I often noticed that they are quite good at treating foreigners shitty, too.

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