Comment by [deleted] on 03/08/2021 at 03:49 UTC*

23 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)

View submission: Following my ‘Eastern European discrimination awareness month’ post, more people shared their experience with discrimination and xenophobia/racism. Here are some stories I have selected:

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.

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Comment by throwawayPzaFm at 03/08/2021 at 14:24 UTC

10 upvotes, 1 direct replies

threw the food at my dad refusing to serve poles.

What the fuck, that's next level.

Comment by Careless_Sir2159 at 16/10/2021 at 12:27 UTC

4 upvotes, 1 direct replies

This jokes about stealing cars are valid to this day. I live in Austria and here they still believe we steal and especially cars... And there are plenty of jokes about that... Sick