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Locals or "locals"? My experience in Berlin from approaching people littering is that they're mostly not German. And what's fascinating, they're actually proud
by thraway-burnout 8y ago
Locals or "locals"?
My experience in Berlin from approaching people littering is that they're mostly not German. And what's fascinating, they're actually proud of their littering.
- netsharc 8y agoLocals. Yeah yeah, white man good, others bad! My experience is that the native youths don't give a shit, meanwhile people who sounded/looked foreign cared more about cleaning up after themselves. And in Berlin I had to yell after 2 Germans who just stood up and left their disposable coffee cups on the street bench they were sitting on. Caveat: we're probably both suffering from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias .
- thraway-burnout 8y agoYou're right. I was stressed yesterday. There are filthy people of all backgrounds. I just happen to live in an area where people are both dirtier than average and not German. If I lived somewhere more German, I'd probably have more examples of German people doing dirty things.