And with Alternative für Deutschland / AfD rising rapidly, this is only going to get much, much worse.
https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/70478/study-finds-racis...
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/germany-...
Last year we decided to move to my home country because of "too many things" but also fed up of feeling an immigrant.
Few months ago I met a German family living around here in a coastal area. I asked them why they moved here and they answered me straight to my face "Because in Germany there are too many immigrants". I think the joke tells itself.
In general, you can totally be against the way immigration is handled in one place while being an immigrant elsewhere.
The family you mentioned likely considered themselves different from the immigrants that they complained about.
I'm not agreeing/disagreeing with these people I don't know, but the general point is fair.
This reminds me of those UK elderly living out their pensions in Spain voting for Brexit to reduce immigration. Thanks to outrage media, I think this public perception of immigration ruining everything is almost everywhere now.
The history with the Turkish gastarbeiters is a complicated one. Please don't twist the knife in the wound.
And similarly, I don't think it's reasonable to suggest OP is the wrong one for being treated worse for wearing clothes from their culture.
If you look out of place, you will get more looks, and that's it, that's where the line should end.
Soft bigotry of low expectation is not open hostility so much as a giving up on a people—-X people are inherently incapable, so just let them be, don’t expect anything from them. As a result of painless low expectation, no one strives, no one offers them opportunities, the people don’t move forward, and the low expectation fuels further low expectation based on poor performance.
Mor maybe you were referring to expectation of other EU countries to be unwelcoming?
Here in DK we have a law with my family name in it .. which the fuckers spelled wrong. I asked them to correct it but they refused. This is the story about how I became a citizen.
Nevertheless, all that ugly history doesn't seem like it's put a damper on their ambitions or status through the 21st century.
The ambition of keeping that country, however, is something that many people would rather deny that specific etnoreligious community.
The Huguenots really became a thing at the end of 15th century. They were named after Besançon Hugues (1487 – 1532).
Am I really now? That comes as a surprise to this GP!
There existed no "Germany" before the second half of the 19th century, only a list of various sovereign states.
So it feel a bit more complicated than "germans are racist, BAD". Anecdotally I've heard that it's hard for any other nationality to do business in germany, simply because they prefer to do business with other germans. It's their country, we just need to accept those cultural differences, and their right to do as they please in their own country.
There's plenty of countries whose laws or attitudes I don't agree with, and that I just don't visit or have any ambition of staying in. China, Burkina Faso, Somalia and Chad are a few examples.
The question is, is any country “perfect” in this regard, showing zero degree of self-selecting and internal favoritism? I suspect not, because it’s not really possible to have a country without focusing on, well, itself, first and foremost. Of course integrated immigrants ARE part of “the country”. But if immigrations swells too fast and/or immigrants are not well integrated, then of course that can present obvious non-racism-based problems for the county’s finances, infrastructure, economy, and culture.
Is anyone outside the west throwing the word “racist” around so liberally? It seems to west thinks it’s somehow evolved beyond the natural constraints of state/tribe. But, of course, it can’t.
I don't think it's just the Germans and there's definitely an additional factor at play.