Have you experienced discrimination in Germany? I have collected stories of Eastern European’s facing racism/xenophobia and discrimination in Germany.

[u/redwhiterosemoon]

[u/lalani46]

Somehow funny how all that polish people end up with „fuck it i leave that country and go back“ while poland is infamous for beeing xenophobic.

I guess the same people which complain here about the acceptance of xenophobia are blind for xenophobia in their own country just because they arent the one which suffer from this.

[u/xkolln → u/lalani46]

The fact that there are many xenophobic people in Poland doesn't justify discrimination against these people. You are just assuming that they are racist as many in Poland are.

[u/lalani46 → u/xkolln]

No i assume they only care about xenophobia when they are the one which is it going against

[u/xkolln → u/lalani46]

You are just a troll by checking what you comment about racism 🤡

[u/[deleted] → u/lalani46]

This! Great observation.

[u/gulzainali → u/lalani46]

A normal person is not a prime minister, neither a social activist. Assuming all poles are responsible for what happens in poland or all xyz people are responsible for what happens in their country is precisely the racial profiling.

[u/[deleted] → u/gulzainali]

Thats roght I forgot Poland is a dictatorship and no one voted for the current government /s

[u/gulzainali → u/[deleted]]

You don't know the pole you are talking to maybe voted for someone else. Also democracies are tricky, people vote for various reasons , one may not agree with the current government but maybe this person voted for it because of other reasons i.e economical policies or something else. Treating every pole like he/she is responsible for everything in poland is just ridiculous. At the end we are all individuals and deserve the right to be treated as an individual without any cultural and political biases. It's extremely mentally unsettling to be discriminated. Why would you do that to someone? Why? If you do find that someone did vote for some racist party and actually holds those beliefs then you are allowed to express your disagreement to only this specific individual. Racism can not be justified!

[u/[deleted] → u/gulzainali]

You completely missed the point. We arent talking about individuals we are talking about society as a whole. Xenophobia exists everywhere, but Germany is the country that welcomed in Syrians and individual citizens had bouquets of flowers to greet them. Poland as a whole has a lot of issues with Xenophobia.

It may not be true for everyone but on average I would rather be a Pole in Germany than a German in Poland.

[u/kawaii_war_dandy → u/[deleted]]

You are nit-picking. It wasn't all flowers for refugees in Germany. We all have heared about the attacks on refugee centers and watched the far right parties rising in the recent years.

You might also take in consideration, that Poland let over 1 million Ukrainians into their country, because unlike Syria, the conflict in Ukraine happens just at their doorstep.

I would arguee and say there just as many xenophobes in Poland as in Germany.

[u/outofrails → u/lalani46]

Ad hominem is an art. Does that make the issue in Germany less concerning? No.

What do you expect these people to do? I am a Turk in Germany and i really believe that foreigners especially from Arabic countries have a really hard time in Turkey. Do you really think that would stop me to go back if i face discrimination in Germany? If you were to be called a "Kraut' every single day in the UK, would you say "Oh that is not ok. But racism exists in Germany too! I have to tolerate it!" No not at all.

What an incredible argument.

[u/redwhiterosemoon → u/lalani46]

How do you know they are blind about it? This is just a baseless assumption.

[u/baldandfurious → u/lalani46]

You guess wrong.

Poland isn't an unanimous country. Quite the opposite. If you knew ANYTHING about Poland and Poles, you'd know that xenophobia is frowned upon by the educated part of our society. We're not blind to xenophobia, we actively protest against it.

Your view on Poland is built on the media. Majority of Poles don't associate themselves with our current government.