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    not just in the East

    posted by  T Y in Germany forum 

    I wouldn't single out the East. I was in the West, not better.

    I haven't seen this documentary yet, but you might be interested:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvpFeyoKbkg

    Hannover was a god awful city full of racists, which is alarming since they host CEBIT every year, tech people from all around the world go there for the event.

    I will say this though. people in Berlin are way more tolerant. this doesn't guarantee a better treatment by Germans and of course idiots are everywhere, including the foreigners, but personally I felt less out of place, and more young Germans moved to Berlin, many of them also escaped from the rest of conservative Germany. even in Berlin, I heard foreigners complain about cold and mean Germans, but I can say this; Berliners are nicer, of course relatively. it's no San Francisco, but there's certainly more openness in the air.

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