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Originally Posted by steeljack
I spend a couple of weeks in Germany every year and would disagree with your comment about Germans having a racist attitude towards the Turks , what I think you will find is a similar attitude to what some of the Brits have with the asian community in the UK ......"Why can't they just live the way we do" , a feeling of having their native culture overwhelmed .
Considering that Germany lost her overseas colonies at the end of WW1 most Germans now find 'people of colour' quite exotic and more of a curiosity , after having 50 odd years of liberal propaganda stuffed down their throats and being told how bad Germans are , three generations have grown up with a bit of a guilt complex about race issues . Any right wing (fascist) race problems are mainly confined to the former DDR states in the eastern parts where the NPD has it most support ,  |
Ok, it wasn't blatant racism. I was just suprised at the attitude of the people I met, who on the whole, were very liberal. I was working for a fashion magazine, for goodness sake!
At that time I would have been offended by anyone talking in derogatory terms about British Asians in the UK, ie: calling them by insulting names, over here stealing our jobs, benefiting from our welfare state, etc. They're the sort of attitudes I was suprised to find in Germany, regarding the Turkish community.