BEING BLACK IN GERMANY 🇩🇪

BEING BLACK IN GERMANY 🇩🇪

Welcome back 🌿

So I thought it would be interesting to share some of my experiences and focus on some things which happen/happened to me here in Germany as a black woman. Please also note, I do love living in Germany! I made the decision to move here for a reason, and if I could do it again I would 💕

This video is a bit short but I do hope I answered some of your questions.

*DISCLAIMER* This video is representing all of MY experiences! I also want to make it clear that I really do still love Germany despite some of the sad incidents I have faced. There is a reason I moved here in the first place. Living here has provided me with so many opportunities and given me great adventures which I will treasure for the rest of my life. I have met really amazing people and also really nasty ones. But like ANYWHERE in the world this stuff happens.

I will be making a '5 Reasons Why I Love Germany Video' soon!

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Music ⇣
Music: Circuit
Musician: Jef

MY OTHER VIDEOS ⇣
🇩🇪 | WHAT I’VE LEARNED TO LIVE WITHOUT IN GERMANY

🌿GET TO KNOW ME TAG! 🌿| WHY I MOVED TO GERMANY

[ZoieMarie]

I want to make it clear that I really do still love Germany despite some of the sad incidents I have faced. There is a reason I moved here in the first place. Living here has provided me with so many opportunities and given me great adventures which I will treasure for the rest of my life. I have met really amazing people and also really nasty ones. But like ANYWHERE in the world this stuff happens. I would love to hear all of your experiences below as we are a community, but please do not leave anything derogatory towards Germany or German people. I have not blamed the country for the incidents that I encountered and neither should you.

[dreumoiten]

I am also a black girl here in Germany and some of your experiences are so similar to mine so i can relate. Most things are easy to ignore but I've never had anyone get physical with me, I'm sorry you had that experience.

[Ssegawa]

I live in Germany too... if staring was a competition, surely Germans would win the world cup! Now that said, I have met some really nice people here... Jerks too, jerks are everywhere on the face of the earth.

[AThuyNguyen]

Everything you experienced in Germany for being black is everything I experience in the US for being Asian. Much solidarity! We don’t need to convince anybody Who we are, where we are from, and whether or not we belong.

[mfmarshall]

Yes, they were staring because your Black, But Mostly because you are BEAUTIFUL!!! That’s the main reason.

[a-little-screwy]

The story with the black pen reminded me of a story, when I was a child. I live in a very small town in germany and when I was 4 I met some black kids, for the first time and I told my mom about this kids I played with, that looked a little different. And she sayd: Oh, so they were black. And I just stared at her and was like: NO. They aren't black. its brown. Then she told me, that I was white and I loked at my skin in total confusion :D I really thought my mom didn't understand colors.

[emilieerdbeer]

I often ask people where they are from. Most of the times I put it as "being interested" in their culture - rural/urban, Bavarian/Berlin, Religion, or their ethnicity. At some point, a girl said to me, that it is quite rude to ask someone that and I didn't understand her - she was from Vienna (and black) and I previously asked her if she was from Vienna (because of her accent). I am interested in languages and cultures, but I know that I am also using stupid excuses. Putting it in perspective because she was part of the black minority and I am not I hit some nerve, because she is being asked that a lot (by people like me) and I was never asked that, so I didn't know that it would make people feel like they don't belong. This is a very long post. I enjoyed your video a lot, because videos like these help us understand each other so that I will not get caught in the same situation, when I "simply" try to start a conversation.

[nadyn]

Sometimes u sit in the tram/train/bus and nobody wants to have a seat next to u. It used to get to me back in the days but right now it gives more space for my handbag 🤷🏽‍♀️

[maggievitality]

One time, (I'm British with African heritage BTW), I was hitch hiking in Europe, and the Minister of Bavaria gave me a lift to Brussels. I've had the best experience in Germany. They are super super cool. (very random but true story). Me and my friends got a lift from an insect scientist from Hamburg to Berlin. He then said he was going Poland horse riding, and let us stay in his very posh appartment (whilst he went horse riding in Poland). WOWWW. This was my German experience (mind you, this was 2008).

[marifofa]

I am so happy you made this video, also you are drop dead gorgeous!

[triptophan]

I'm really, really sorry for what happened to you on that bus! Please remember that these kind of people aren't the majority in our country, they're sometimes just louder than all of the rest of us who are decent human beings! But the rest of us is working on that (:

[ibexy]

These are the challenges of living abroad. It will never end.

[islandsweetheart]

I lived in Germany for 3 years. I loved it and felt safe all the time. I’m grateful I never experienced racism.

[MaxxsMom]

I'm American, my parents are American, my grandparents are American, my great grandparents are American and my great-great-grandparents are American, yet people always question my nationality when I travel abroad. It's so insulting to think that a pretty black woman can't JUST be American.

[Alteori]

It's normal for people to be very curious about people they aren't used to seeing, they're like little children. They don't mean anything by it. That's why it's good to be accepting so they can be taught :)

[Davit]

Everything she said is true, I have already been in Munich, Germany for 5 years, and I can confirm everything

[umlooad]

Thank's for the clear words. It makes me sad to hear these insights, but i hope the good experiences in Germany outweigh the bad ones.

[corona]

I'm German and this made me cringe hard multiple times 😖
Thanks for sharing and sorry for some of our more stupid fellow citizens 🙄

[alanbarr]

I´m sorry to hear about what happened to you on that bus! In the name of all decent germans, I would like to apoligize! Looking at you though, is something different. You are an amzing beauty! I wouldn´t be able to take my eyes off of you for a minute! And I lived in Florida until I was 13 years old. You said, you live in Southern Germany. Well, I did too at first. (Near Nürnberg) There are a lot of tiny towns down there. And sometimes, you´ll come across some of those crazy racists. As long as they just jack their jaws, ignore them. They´re stupid as F***! You are, for the majority of germans most certainly welcome here! And I personnaly would llike to wish you only the best during your stay here. No matter how long you wish to be a member of this community!

[beakay]

You have so much class. I really respect your outlook and your approach.