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    Kudos to you both

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    @ Sabrina and Anna

    Hey thanks for listening and being open minded to a conversation about this.
    I do believe that there are increasingly more people like you in Germany ready to have a real conversation about this but it’s still a minority.
    State bureaucracy cannot fix this.
    It has to rise out of the consciousness of the people

    What makes it difficult for you as a German to touch on that topic with foreigners and especially Turkish, African, Lebanese, … and so forth, newly minted “Germans”, even 2nd and third generation is that at first most won’t trust you to open up about this.
    Afraid of the common knee-jerk reaction “ You don’t like it, get out”
    For me as an American it is much easier, because they know I won’t bark a them and share a similar experience. ( though as a white person not near as severe)

    Example.
    How often do I meet someone and get talking.
    After 3 minute, “ Hey how do like living in Germany?”
    Most smile and say “ well you know” and we both laugh.
    We don’t even have to even talk about it…..that how big the problem is.
    Sometimes we do, and it’s the same story over and over.

    The other day I met tall very dark skinned African fella.
    Super nice guy.
    We got talking whilst standing in the checkout line.
    Went outside and talked for another 10 minutes about all kinds of stuff.

    Told me he’s been in Germany for over 20 years, speaks German very well, German citizen.
    Before parting he said” You know, it would take me years to get close enough to a German to have a simple normal conversation like this.
    I just met you, this is awesome”
    For me it’s odd, because where I come from this is normal.
    And no we did not have to talk about why this is like that that in Germany.

    Thumbs up to you Sabrina and Anna, you have my deepest respect for being forward leaning and open-minded, ready to tackle to the problem.
    Godspeed.

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