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Germany doesn't have many black people because Germany didn't import them as slaves and never really colonized Africa. This whole statistic is worthless withou
by foepys 6y ago
Germany doesn't have many black people because Germany didn't import them as slaves and never really colonized Africa.
This whole statistic is worthless without context. Like how Germany's first immigrants after WW2 were low skilled Turkish workers and only recently Germany became more attractive for high-skilled immigrants because the US effectively shut down its visa program for the majority of people.
I'm not saying Germany is perfect but just whipping out some numbers without context doesn't cut it.
Also, it's pretty bold for Americans to lecture other countries on racism while their police is gunning down people simply for the color of their skin and is separating children of refugees from their parents to put them in cages. Meanwhile Germany is providing healthcare and shelter for all refugees but apparently doesn't currently promote a few dozen high-skilled workers that very likely could've made it anywhere to be CEO.
- sangnoir 6y ago> Germany doesn't have many black people because Germany didn't import them as slaves and never really colonized Africa. Germany did colonize Africa and committed its fair share of attrocities in Namibia, but the colonies were taken away after WWII - way before the African independence movement took hold (which was immediately followed by an uptick of citizens in those former colonies migrating to colonial powers)
- iguy 6y agoYou mean after WWI. But yes, both to having colonies, but being a smaller player than others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_colonization_of_Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_colonization_of_Africa
- nicodjimenez 6y agoGermany is no stranger to slave labor and didn’t abolish it until much later than the US did (1945). And not by choice either. The US has never had genocide on the industrial scale of what Germany has done in the 20th century. Slave labor today doesn’t seem to be an issue for Merkel either, as evidenced by recent trade deals. Germans playing the moral superiority card is humorous to me.
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- foepys 6y agoYou missed my point entirely. I never compared past atrocities as it is unfair to the current generation. What I compare is the current state of affairs. Germany today is giving shelter and free healthcare to refugees but apparently not CEO positions. The US is gunning down blacks and forcefully taking children of refugees away from their parents but some immigrants became CEO of large companies which apparently makes the US more immigration-friendly and less racist than Germany.
- nicodjimenez 6y agoUS is doing no such things and Germans are far more racist than Americans it’s not even close.
- rayiner 6y ago> Germany doesn't have many black people because Germany didn't import them as slaves and never really colonized Africa. Yes, that was a weird point to make in the article because it's not as if there are many Black people in Germany. But you have to admit that having just two non-white people out of 179 (1.1%) on corporate boards is pretty odd. Germany is white, but not 98.9% white. Turks make up over 5% of the population.
- foepys 6y agoDefinitely true. Germany made a huge mistake not integrating 1st and 2nd generation Turks better and the 3rd generation is now feeling especially lost as Turkey isn't home and Germany doesn't feel like home either.
- varajelle 6y agoAren't Turks white?
- Yoric 6y agoThis specific distinction doesn't really make any sense in Europe.