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created by redwhiterosemoon on 02/08/2021 at 11:03 UTC
301 upvotes, 28 top-level comments (showing 25)
Comment by Pietro1203 at 02/08/2021 at 12:53 UTC
25 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It's the first time I read about this... I'm Polish but I've lived in Italy since I was 7. Luckily, I never faced any discrimination for this.
Anyway, I can't really believe that there are people who think someone is communist or a spy just because s/he's Polish... That's too stupid to be true. Right?
Comment by 6u2m4n79 at 02/08/2021 at 12:51 UTC
43 upvotes, 2 direct replies
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I live in Poland and as a non polish, I’m uruguayan 🇺🇾, I can definitely see and hear the constant discrimination against Slavs in the region. The subtle attacks against Slavic ppl is crazy, specially in Germany. Of course we all know it’s just posing and virtue signaling, this “woke” bullshit Germany is championing.
Comment by [deleted] at 03/08/2021 at 03:49 UTC*
21 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I’m a girl from Poland, and I live in Poland but I have family in Belgium who I travel to quite often. In general traveling through Germany, Netherlands and Belgium is always filled with anxiety of me, since as soon as they see a polish registration plate they treat us differently. The worst thing was probably this lady working in German McDonald’s who threw the food at my dad refusing to serve poles.
I also play lots of video games and I swear if I had 5 euros for every time some German teen makes a joke about me stealing their car I’d be a millionaire.
There’s always also talk about how they are rich and that since I’m from Poland they could probably do anything to me for 5 euros.
It’s 5 am and I’m tired after a 12h drive but those are just from the top of my head.
Comment by johnny-T1 at 02/08/2021 at 12:40 UTC
29 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Damn, reading all this makes me feel weird! I guess I should be happy as a Turk. We face much more than this but at least they don't take us for thieves. We are just good, ole standard Muslim barbarians. I'll take it!
Comment by redwhiterosemoon at 02/08/2021 at 11:12 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Note: if you cannot read the images from your computer, I suggest opening the post on your mobile or tablet.
Comment by [deleted] at 02/08/2021 at 16:01 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Words of wisdom, *przyjacielu*.
Comment by [deleted] at 02/08/2021 at 16:12 UTC
10 upvotes, 0 direct replies
That's literally me in the 4th picture, woah
Comment by [deleted] at 02/08/2021 at 21:46 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I had a few not very nice comments from people when they found out I'm Polish.
Comment by Cetateanul_fara_CI at 02/08/2021 at 12:46 UTC
16 upvotes, 2 direct replies
And at the same time (at least in Romania, but I think in most EE countries is the same) our own citizens are discriminating and hating their own country and identity too. Yesterday I have said to a friend that after many years I spent in Western Europe, I have started to respect more Romania. Her reply was: " Respecting Romania is an aberration". Fvk you, is not an aberration, is a normal feeling for someone that is not full of frustration like you.
Comment by redwhiterosemoon at 02/08/2021 at 11:39 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Comment by Tark1nn at 02/08/2021 at 22:55 UTC
6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
my mum always suggesting polish girls might try to scam me for my western passport when i'll be in poland next year "we know how eastern girls are" jeez i'm going to university in a developed country what's hard to understand there ? Kinda sad, they would never say that about italy
Comment by BeardedShawn at 03/08/2021 at 00:42 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Wow, I had no idea it was so bad over there. I'm from the US, so racism here is more focused on, well, you know. I have one of the more simple Polish surnames and yet people are always saying it wrong. The worst I've heard was "Poland isn't a real country," and "who gives a shit about Poland" when I mentioned I was reading their history.
Comment by bicapislac at 02/08/2021 at 20:14 UTC*
12 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I'm middle eastern and have been living in Germany for the past 6 years and I feel torn about these posts. From one side, All of these experiences are **painfully familiar and I want to sympathize**, ...BUT I've lived with a lot of Eastern European people in a shared flat. Like A LOT.
here are some of the experiences I've had with Eastern Europeans in Germany:
1- Due to my interest in Psychology, I worked with a therapist dealing with female refugees back in 2015 and the stories some of the women told about traveling through places like Romania, Albania and Hungary were pure nightmare. Many of these women were raped or sexually harassed and as a result had developed mental problems. When I would tell my serbian coworker in the Uni about these experiences, he would just laugh and say "They're probably lying. That's what they do to get a residency here". One of the women we worked with committed suicide. I left pretty soon after.
2- I had an Albanian roommate who would go on rants about Turks and Muslims (**I'm not a muslim** and he is greek-orthodox). "Savages" and "Thugs" were a constant motif. He would also harass my guests that would come into the house by saying stuff like "what are you doing here" and "you don't belong here".
3- Another Albanian roommate ,a also christian of italian roots, would asked me about birthrates in my home country and go on about how the Arab birthrate was "too high" and soon native Germans will be replaced by Arabs and I quote "something should be done about that soon". He was also a big fan of Enver Hoxha.
4- Another roommate who I lived with was Hungarian. He was horrible and didn't even consider MENA people to be human. It was torturous to live with this guy and I left the flat soon after he moved in since I couldn't take it anymore.
5- Romanian Girl in the Lab that I worked: She would constantly undermine me, ignore my suggestions and try to correct me, even when I was proven to be right. She would show up suddenly and try to teach me how to hold a pipette like I'm a five year old or sth. I already knew how to hold a pipette and had been working there one year more than her. I politely told her to leave me alone and she filed a report against me for "harassing" her.
6- A polish student in my class randomly approached me and unsolicited mentioned that he hates all refugees "specially those africans". When I asked him what he thought of me he said that I'm alright because I'm one of the good ones and I'm not a refugee. I tried to change his mind by inviting him to my home giving him tee and sweets and try to debate and engage with him but soon I gave up since It was made clear that he had no intention of changing.
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Keep in mind that all of these people are young, highly educated engineering students. So maybe, just maybe the issue of racism exists everywhere and people are garbage.
Comment by [deleted] at 02/08/2021 at 22:08 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
-laughs at Polish accent
-has one of most hated accents on the planet
Bri'ish moment
Comment by N64crusader4 at 03/08/2021 at 02:30 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It's unfortunate anti-polish sentiments are so prevalent here, I like Poland and I've never met any nasty polish people which is more than I can say for my own people (even though I know that's entirely anecdotal).
Comment by [deleted] at 02/08/2021 at 15:49 UTC*
12 upvotes, 3 direct replies
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Comment by redwhiterosemoon at 02/08/2021 at 20:45 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
If you are a survivor of xenophobic/racial abuse, please share it either by commenting or sending me a private message (I will keep your identity anonymous).
Comment by [deleted] at 03/08/2021 at 11:23 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Please - people think because I’m polish I’m a nazi even though they attacked my country I-
Comment by [deleted] at 04/08/2021 at 10:50 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Did your post on r/europe get taken down? I cant find it anywhere, was curious to read their responses.
Comment by StanHr96 at 02/08/2021 at 12:52 UTC*
8 upvotes, 3 direct replies
I'm a Croatian who's living in Bavaria (region in Southeastern Germany), and agree that there is plenty of racism against eastern Europeans...
But the thing is... what are you trying to achieve?
As long as I know, racism or xenophobia is also a problem in Slavic countries, especially in those in Central and Eastern Europe. I mean, people discriminate against their own minorities or people who came to work there..
I'd think that It would be the best if you accept it as a fact, because the problem will not go away.. as long as you speak a foreign language, are of a different religious confession or have a different skin/hair tone, people will discriminate..
Comment by ebeturabirkiuc at 02/08/2021 at 20:49 UTC
3 upvotes, 2 direct replies
And yet Polish people are also known with their racism against east (from Romania to Taiwan)
Comment by [deleted] at 02/08/2021 at 15:53 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by ModerNew at 02/08/2021 at 18:28 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I mean... Is there anyone who realises what ethymology of 'slave' is?
The proof that slav people where repressed in past is just here in this very word.
Comment by purpledinosaur0 at 03/08/2021 at 01:58 UTC*
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I was told by a coworker several weeks after I told him I have polish ancestry, in what I think was certainly Satan hiding behind a thin veil of humor, that “Polish people are untermensch, all should be killed.” I left the job as soon as I could.
The West, however, has largely abandoned Jesus and His Catholic Church, so it is only natural that their souls descend into such darkness. This was the state of my soul before I joined the Church.
Comment by McMotta at 02/08/2021 at 14:51 UTC
-1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Then you have ONZ and other neonazis walking around the 1 August with PW armands... they literally spit on all the people that nazis killed