i'm pretty sure they're not gonna like that you know what i'm trying to say so yeah
that one i could give that one a racist um you know stamp stamp of racism
you know what i'm trying to say but the other stuff nah hey guys welcome back to foreign
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before from uh male's perspective today we're gonna be checking out a female's perspective
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hi guys welcome back to my channel so as you can tell from the title this video is going
to be about being black in germany coming from my experience um what i went through
living here and i think no one's experience is wrong this is what i went through and i
just want to let you guys know how it was for me so you know obviously i'm black and so the
first thing that i would say which i experience because i'm black in germany is of the staring
so the staring is a little bit intense like i have never been stared at so long in my life
like normally in new york like you just glanced by someone like quickly and if you see them see
you you look away immediately but i found in germany in the southern part where i lived
they just stared so hard and if you stare back at them they don't look away like they'll just stare
straight at you and don't blink don't nothing and it's just sometimes it's a little bit like
damn do i have like ketchup on my face but obviously that's not the reason like
that's not the reason it's because i'm black like that's the only reason why you're staring
so long at me so uh i'm gonna disagree with that i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm just objective
the reason why they're staring at you is a reason that is not disclosed you're making an assumption
and it's a thing that we all do we make assumptions okay i'm different
what is different about me is what is causing them to stare that's a mistake we all make
as a person of myself uh i can very much say i've been stared at by
men women children both male and female children however you want to say it
girls boys women men i've been stared at by old people old men old women stared at black white
i've i i'm what you would call the guy who gets all the stairs i for some reason i don't know
people are just attracted to looking at ugly things and they were just looking at me and i
get a lot of stairs so i can tell you straight up just because a white person's throws at you
doesn't mean it's because that they could be just admiring you like it doesn't have
to always be racist trust me the staring is a little bit intense and i don't get that
and i would not consider staring as racism i would never consider that period that's not fair
daily basis it's very hard to blend in here very hard to you know disappear into the wall
because you're black and it just is what it is the next point that i wanted to bring up to you guys
is kind of the ignorant comments obviously you will get ignorant comments anywhere in america
south america africa i don't know you can get ignorant comments anywhere in the world
but again i'm just telling you what i've experienced here and i'll give you
two prime examples so it's the where are you from question which it seems to boggle people
all the time where i'm from i would randomly get stopped i don't know at the bus stop or in the
train stations randomly and they're just like oh my god you're so beautiful like which is really
nice like thank you oh my god like where are you from what are you doing so you didn't do the math
right there somebody says you're beautiful and you didn't do the math that maybe because you're
actually beautiful as those people say that's why they're probably staring at you it doesn't have to
be your race you know what i'm trying to say just try to get what i'm trying to say man here and
i'm just like oh i'm from you know new york and i'm just working and traveling and then you know
most of the time they just cut me off at like new york and they're just like no no no no no no
no they're just like no where are you really from where are you really from and i'm just like
i i just said it i'm from new york and they're just like no no no no no
where are your parents know where your parents from and then like
they're jamaican and then they're just oh they're just like oh okay so you are jamaican okay
it's like a whole weight has been lifted off their shoulder once they found out that actually you
know my heritage is from jamaica people can't you want me to tell you the shocker of um all
the lives of everybody who would do something like that um no your heritage is not from jamaica
where is your parents from oh where are their parents from okay cool see what i'm talking
about if somebody is from somewhere and they say that i think we should just leave it at that
i'm not saying it's a form of racism it's pathetic i think that's racism but if somebody
says they're from new york they're from new york you leave it at that you need to go no further
because even germans who are currently living in germany i'm pretty sure not all of them are
actually originated from germany meaning that they begin in germany you could trace through their
generation so on so forth and somebody's probably coming from another side of the continent so it's
really pathetic to get deep into something is that if you know what i'm trying to say to
accept that i'm never never forget like all of these countries even jamaica was not
a country like you know that was just here people were living here you know what i'm trying to say
people came here in terms of the europeans came here get what i'm trying to say from america it's
like something very hard to grasp and so after i started getting these comments like like where are
you from like digging into my history like when i noticed that people started to go like deeper
then i was just like no i'm not telling people like where my parents are from you should accept
that i just said i'm from new york i'm not embarrassing jamaican jamaican american nothing
but it kind of made me feel like you're trying to put me in a box um the second type of um comments
which i do get a lot of people are very nice when they first approach me but then they go
just it always turns like left field they're just like oh your skin is so beautiful i take that very
nicely i i love that i love my skin they always like oh my god your skin is so beautiful and so
like smooth and i'm like oh thank you thank you and then they're just like oh my god and
it's just like so dark they come next to me and then they put their hand like next to mine like
and they're just like look like i'm almost getting to your skin complexion i just hey i get i get
that she doesn't like that but i do that i'm sorry i do it a lot because okay so um i don't know what
um what kind of you know weirdness is with my body but let me see if i can probably get this focused
on the camera a little bit right so if you look on my skin you can where's the bloody camera galley
it's it's hard to show on the camera the point is you look at my skin um i actually do have
um you know some weird pigmentation you don't like a weird pigmentation so i always do that
to compare my skin color because i have really parts of my body that goes almost
all the way to what you would consider white i do have pigmentations that are definitely 100
white right but um i do like to compare that to a lot of people it's just something cool so she
doesn't like it but i like i said before this cannot be considered as racism to go to like
italy for a summer and then like i'm at the same complexion as you so i i get that a lot where they
put their skin next to my skin right and then say hahaha i'm almost like your skin complexion
and it's like that's that's actually not funny i also even had one person like put
like a pen tip like a black pen tip like to my skin complexion and like compared like
the black pen to my skin like oh my god you guys are like the same color when
really not really but just ignorant comments so is yeah i wouldn't really say that one was ignorant
at the end i would more if she's speaking about anything a form of racism that would be the one
that um i i could give it a pass as racism but i wouldn't necessarily say that is ignorant because
i mean anybody knows that you you shouldn't really do that regarding somebody's skin tone because if
i'm comparing somebody's uh like a white person and i'm comparing them to it like a chicken like
you know like a flesh of the chicken and i'm like oh my gosh look at look at you you're almost wow
oh oh my gosh you're almost the same color i'm pretty sure they're not gonna like that you know
what i'm trying to say so yeah that one i could give that one a racist um you know stamp stamp
of racism you know what i'm trying to say but the other stuff nah he's safe i think yes i think 100
yes i think if you can live in america you can for sure live in germany i don't think you would
have to worry if you come to germany about your safety now maybe this could change for example
in like east germany that might be a little bit different so then to kind of answer i guess the
big question of is germany racist um i think right now it's a hard time because of all the refugees
that are coming into the country and so there's a lot of i think resistance going on between the
germans and the refugees so i basically had this experience where i guess people just me
yeah but you cannot consider refugees um you can you cannot consider resistance of refugees
as racism if you get what i'm trying to say it's just not a fair statement because um refugees come
from various type parts of the world so if you're going to be specific about um you know their bias
to certain types of refugees then that could be a form of racism but um refugees in general you kind
it's just not fair to um include it in the form of racism unless there's a prejudice
to a specific type of refugee immediately thought that i was a refugee and would give me
some type of like attitude or like some type of resistance or just nasty stare
so i will give you just one kind of example of how this kind of affected me in a negative way this
last year or two years ago my two sisters visited me in germany and an incident happened where
on the bus this guy like physically pushed me off the bus like physically pushed me off the bus and
thank goodness i had my older sister there because you know she's a buff girl she can fight and she
basically stood up for me like pushed him back and like we were arguing like with this guy and
he had a friend too so it was two of the germans against like me and my sister and i had my little
sister there as well and she is just she was just i think 15 at the time and she was so scared but
she was just in the background and so it's just me and my sister arguing back with this guy and
i'll never forget what he said he was just like go back to your country like we don't want you here
blah blah blah and i was just like oh my goodness like my sister i hate when people use that word we
in terms of their negativity like i would advise anyone who is what you'd say racist anyone who
was um if they're a part of a anti-community you know your anti this anti that if you're
for abortion against abortion whomever you are please do not say um we because a lot of the times
the word we is um representing multiple people and not everybody actually agrees with you even if
they are for you you know what i'm trying to say so you're for abortion but you're not for murder
and you know somebody like who's for abortion be like we support abortion and we support murder you
know what i'm trying to say cut it cut it out with the wee wee wee wee because the wee wee
might get you you know saying standing by yourself because yay talking about we don't want you in the
country it's not your country no offense you're born there but it's not your country no offense
like don't i don't think anyone in this world should ever try to be entitled to a country like
it's not your country like the country is like the country practically owns you if that doesn't
make sense i mean what i'm trying to get at is the country will remain you will not
remain that that makes sense yeah so don't try to entitle be like entitled to your country or
in in a sense where you're idolizing your country like okay this is
my country and i rule this and i control no you don't like look at russia prime example
are just here on vacation they just wanted to see your beautiful country and then
this is the type of reaction that people have towards why him and his friend they really
thought like me and my sisters you know group of black girls we were like you know refugee women or
something like that and as soon as we did open our mouths and they realized that we were americans
then they kind of like toned it down just a bit i never thought that would have happened to me
it did change my perspective of germany at that time i never thought it found physical but it
did so i will say that as a black person going anywhere in the world you need to watch your back
you need to look out germany is a safe country but they have these one in a million people who
you will possibly encounter but again this is not saying that germany is nah she did germany
dirty she did germany and black people dirty if i was well i was just gonna say if i was black
but if i was supposed to take her advice right there she literally said if you're black
watch your back anywhere you go in the world like what anybody can get attacked like
racism is not only towards black people right so i i think racism towards black people is just
um highlighted more than every form of other racism right classism and all of that type of
stuff but i mean black people have hurt black people too so you know like i'd be more scared
honestly in america rather than germany when it comes to any form of racism in my life
but either ways i get her point you know the refugees um situation i think a lot of countries
don't like refugees for some reason um but i've heard a lot of bad things about what refugees done
as well so like i said before they were born there they have the option to like you were just
like you so it is what it is but do not allow you know a hate from a particular person to determine
whether you're going to be in that country or not because the country does not belong to them
they idolize the country as if it is theirs but it is not theirs right so what i would advise anyone
of color anyone of skin tone anything that you are human be safe anywhere you go and expect the
unexpected and just try to play cool man try to play cool try to play safe ain't nowhere in this
world that is 100 safe anybody can get crazy and do something to you no matter race gender or or um
race gender or whatever it doesn't matter you can get harmed by anybody so
just um look at everybody the same and um if you're white and you see somebody who's white they
can kill you if you're black and you see somebody who's black they can kill you too so um just go
about your business you know what i'm trying to say and just live your life man a lot of you peace