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This surreal warning I just got.

ChagenChagen
edited 2011-05-05 22:34:34 in General
[tɕagɛn]
My mom told me that when in Germany, I should not go by my normal first name (My first name is as Jewish as it can get), because Neo-nazis might try to kill me. Yes. She said that. When I told her that Germany is one of the vehemently anti-nazi countries on the planet, she rebuked that. She said that they don't even teach them that they lost WWII. Even after trying to reason with her, she told me to be careful about neo-nazis, she thinks they're everwhere in Germany. You know what's even more ridiculous My mom LIVED IN GERMANY DURING HER CHILDHOOD. You know what makes this even more ridiculous? She's black. You know, one of the races nazis hate? You'd think a neo-nazi would have attacked her while she lived in Germany, if they were that common.

Comments

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    You'd think for a black person in Nazi-run Germany, not going by a Jewish-sounding name wouldn't help much.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    My mom didn't live in Germany during WWII, she lived there in like the 70s or 90s.
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    You have weird parents.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    ^^I know. I meant even if her premise that Nazis were still active in Germany were true.
  • DYREDYRE
    edited 2011-05-05 23:11:51
    Is your name like, Abrahamsteinskiwitzberg or something?　　That's about the Jewishist name that I could make up.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    No.

    "Isreal".

    You don't get much more Jewish than "Isreal".
  • DYREDYRE
    (I actually knew that)
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    (We all did)
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Oh.

    Dammit.
  • BobBob
    ...I didn't. :<
  • NyarlyNyarly
    edited 2011-05-06 00:03:07
    Likes cheesecake unironically.
    Considering that Jewish names are Jiddish and that Jiddish is more or less a derivative (or maybe even dialect) of German, one would probably even be safer with a Jewish name. At least I don't trust the average neo-nazi to recognize a Jewish name. Hell, considering how intellectually-impaired they tend to be, the average neo-nazi probably doesn't even know that "David" is of Jewish origin.

    Granted, with a name like "Israel", it's probably a bit different...

    But if she were actually right, Berlin would probably look entirely different now. You barely can turn around a corner without meeting a Turk and other foreigners are pretty common too. And while it's not an everyday sight, I never saw so many black people before. Hell, even my hometown, which is infamous for it's high amount of neo-nazis, has it's fair share of Turks, Vietnames, Turks and other non-German people (or better said, people of non-German heritage). Also, in said notoriously nazi-filled town, I went with a Turk and two half-black girls to school (not at the same time).

    Yeah, I think your mother is talking bullshit. If anything, it's the nazis that should be afraid.
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
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