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Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Minorities in Germany face widespread racism, survey finds
More than half of people in Germany who identify as part of an ethnic or religious minority regularly experience racial discrimination, according to a study released on Thursday. A representative survey of German residents conducted by the National Discrimination and Racism Monitor showed that 54% of respondents who said they are perceived as ethnic minorities reported facing racial discrimination. Among black respondents, 62% of men and 63% of women said they had experienced discrimination in daily life at least once a month over the past year. In more than four out of five cases, they believed their skin colour was the primary reason. A similarly high percentage of Muslim women (61%) reported facing discrimination at least once a month in the survey, which was conducted between August 2024 and January 2025. By comparison, 32% of people who say they are not perceived by others as belonging to ethnic minorities reported experiencing discrimination at least once a month over the past year — often due to factors such as gender, age, or other personal characteristics. The study also found that 23% of the German population believe ethnic and religious minorities demand too much in terms of equality, while 22% of the roughly 9,500 respondents aged 18 to 73 felt these groups had benefited economically more than they should have in recent years. According to the Turkish Community in Germany (TGD), the country's recent federal election campaign has deepened social divisions. The organization's chairman, Gökay Sofuoglu, said this week: "For people with a migration background, the ongoing negative discourse on migration and diversity — driven by right-wing extremist forces — is the biggest stress test in recent history."
Local Germany
20-03-2025
- Local Germany
Levels of racism and discrimination in Germany revealed in new survey
Some 54 percent of people living in Germany who identify as belonging to ethnic or religious minorities experience racial discrimination on a regular basis, according to a recent survey by the National Discrimination and Racism Monitor . More than 60 percent of black men and women reported experiencing discrimination at least once a month in the past year. Of these instances, skin colour was suggested to be the reason for the discrimination in roughly four out of five incidents, Tagesschau reported . Similarly, just over 60 percent of Muslim women reported being discriminated against at least once a month during the survey period. In comparison, among those who said they do not appear to belong to an ethnic or religious minority, 32 percent reported experiencing discrimination at least once per month - due to gender, age or other characteristics. The survey covered the period from August 2024 to January 2025 and had 9,500 respondents between the ages of 18 and 73. Advertisement The study also found that 23 percent of the German population believed ethnic and religious minorities make too many demands for equality. Twenty-two percent of respondents believed that minority groups had economically benefited more than they were entitled to in recent years. The racism monitor is a long-term ongoing project to identify social developments in racism and discrimination in Germany based on quantitative evidence. The project is compiled by the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM), and funded by a federal programme.
