Are the Germans still racist?

Question

I was walking through town today with my sister-in-law and we were minding our business and then some white men came past us and said "Hey we are pure germans and we hate blacks, jews and homosexuals, and if you were in my country we would shoot you int the name of adolf hitler" they were bunch of 20 year olds and I just laughed and said "you've got a screw loos up there" anywho I thought we put the predjudist in society behind us!

this happened in cardiff, wales

Answer 1

omg! thats the stupidest thing i have heard they are probably part of some hate group. the truth is that germans (i being one) are ashamed of the whole holocust thing and just want to forget about it

Answer 2

I have been living in germany the past 30 years and I can definitely say that as a whole the germans are no longer more racist than, say, the Brits . Some of the older people are, though, influenced by their elders who experienced the war. (Adolf Hitler was indeed most popular) Then there are small groups of young neo-nazis who hate almost everything. The Republicans, a less radical group of right-wingers, are also receiving more attention from the public of late; this is due to the high unemployment rate and 3 million Turks who refuse to integrate. Nationalism has quietened down over the years, more so than in France and Britain, and groups of the younger generations are often multi-cultural. A lot to do with this is the increased lack of interest in Religion.

Answer 3

Yes they are but they dont show it, the only think it and there is a colective mobbing towards foreigner (black hair and/or skin) in some places more than others. I was in Gütersloh area for a few months a couple of times just recently and I couldnt believe what I saw and how they made me feel.....germans in tha area for some unknown reason to me, are so very racist, ignorant, closed minded and there are millions of east europeans bringing their own hard and racist ways so the result is...very racist and miserable. I dear to say that although unaware and not on purpose, all germans still today carry a bunch of nazi traits in their ways, behaviours and thinking, They are arrongant, they are so it selfish, it hurts them having to spend money on anything, they learn from their parents to count money all time and to be so very greedy is just so pathetic even sick but they dont know any better and saving money, no spending is a national obsession (german efficiency). Please dont get me wrong, they are great for many other things, they are very contained, neutral and they shine through work basically. They are very racist and they are rigid, not flexible, they are cold and they all march like soldiers, they live so they can work, they are extremely miserable with money and they cant help being the way the are.

Answer 4

I take it this took place in the US? If so, here's the problem: as a whole, the US has every culture, and no culture all at once. We are young, for a country, and are considered a melting pot. As a result, american teenagers and 20-somethings are forced to find something to identify with. And if MTV and rap don't suit you, you're forced to look elsewhere. Racism is ignorance in its most pure form. And since some people have aggression they need an outlet for, and they are too ignorant to find an outlet like writing or music, etc. they turn to something more agrressive, more violent. The men you talk to are most likely not pure German. They are most likely "skinheads" and being as it is that skinheads have turned their ignorance and pent up anger into racism, they have looked for a role model who would support them. In other words, they are looking for a justification for their actions. Since hitler has been the largest known advocate of a "pure race" they have turned to his idealogy. Deep inside, they don't believe it. It is simply an excuse to hate. And no, Germans are no longer racist, at least none of the ones myself or anyone I've ever know have talked to. In fact, the Germans I have talked to view Hitler's holocaust the way that we Americans view slavery... a product of ignorance and a dar time we'd just as soon never let happen again.

Answer 5

I was stationed in Germany for three years and really experienced no kind of racism from many of the young people. Now some of the grandparents may have giving me a dirty look. But the young Germans like black folks, especially the German women. Now that may have caused some of the men to get little jealous, but overall things have changed a lot since the Hitler era.

Answer 6

I was in Berlin five years ago and the people I met were only obviously racist when they discussed the arrival of all the east german people after the wall came down and communism ended. The West Berliners were incredibly judgemental about what they percieved to be a lazy, sponging race

Answer 7

Some Germans are racist, some other aren't.
You will find racist people everywhere, it is not a peculiarity of Germans, although history has a very bad experience with them.
Germans are "racist" even among them: people from west Germany don't like people of east Germany and vice versa.
I'm Italian, and the same happens in Italy, too: people from northern Italy don't like people of southern Italy, and vice versa.
I think it happens everywhere.

Answer 8

You don't say what country this happened. But, in Germany it is against the law to display a swastika, do a stiff-arm salute or advocate racial violence. That being said, there are small pockets of skinheads in the big cities, that I, as a white male American, would feel uncomfortable around such as these neo-nazis. I'm lucky I can speak a certain dialect of German.

I guess what I'm trying to say is: people are people. Fcuk those guys for telling you such a line of krap.

Answer 9

Haha, the Welsh :-) Only kidding!

I've never had any racist experiences in Germany. Neither have my friends (of all nationalities).

I was in Spain a couple of years ago, though, and a bunch of neo-nazis attacked us with bottles in a park. I (English) was with a bunch of students from France. My American friend was put in hospital in Brighton by a bunch of xenophobe thugs. Another Irish friend was put in hospital in France. They thought he was English.

Unfortunately, you will find sad and desperate people everywhere.

Germany as a country is not racist. But you will find German idiots, as you find idiots everywhere.

Answer 10

I'm German and definitally not racist. Those Germans who said that I completely disagree with and I think they are wrong. They're making the rest of us Germans look bad, but we're not.

Answer 11

No, they aren't racist, it's just the odd few that are. I have been working with a few Germans recently and it pains me to say this, but some of them have a sense of humour. I was shocked.