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if OP thinks its a racial issue it obviously matters who is black and who is white in their inter-racial couple?>
Is there more prejudice against one combination versus another? Since it is in Germany, I don't know anything about what Germans' preconceived notions are, if they have any at all (or if they even match Americans' stereotypes about blacks and whites as couples).
How is this a weird experience? Two people raising their voices, a cop is nearby and asks if everything is OK. Would you think this was abnormal if it took place in the US?
Seriously, if you are this paranoid about people in other countries, just don't bother to travel.
They are obviously not approving of interracial marriages. He asked you that question because he suspected you were going to harass or assault that women.
And if he had asked the woman, it would have been because he purposely ignored the black man. People see what they want to see.
How is this a weird experience? Two people raising their voices, a cop is nearby and asks if everything is OK. Would you think this was abnormal if it took place in the US?
Seriously, if you are this paranoid about people in other countries, just don't bother to travel.
Its an inter racial couple so obviously race is at play here.
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To the OP:
If situations like this seem to bother you, I suggest you stay out of Germany from now on ...
You do that again, loud *discussing* (so loud, that the policeman was thinking you were arguing),
some other policeman will ask you again and again ... !
I really wonder how loud the two of you were *speaking* ?
Somewhere on the internet, or TV perhaps, I came across a program in which an American or English couple rented an apartment in Germany. At one point a neighbour in the building came up and asked them if they were having a family dispute...they weren't. He was a policeman, which they had not known. It seemed people in the building took their loud talking for a fight.
This happens very often in the US,if the neighbors hear any noise, they will call police
My wife and I were having a discussion in a train station regarwoman. which train to take. Because we had opposing opinions, our voices were slightly raised. A policeman walked up to me and asked me (first in German and then in English), "do you know this lady"?. I said "she's my wife!". Then he said "Okay, perfect!" and skipped away. At no point did he attempt to make any conversation with her.
What do you make of that?
BTW we're an interracial couple if that is of any relevance.
Because you were the perpetrator. The atracker.
But yes, he should have asked her, because you, the attacker, will obviously say you know the womab
How is this a weird experience? Two people raising their voices, a cop is nearby and asks if everything is OK. Would you think this was abnormal if it took place in the US?
Seriously, if you are this paranoid about people in other countries, just don't bother to travel.
Exactly
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