Danielhouston:
Also be ready to receive letters upon letters. Every time I want to open my post box, I always pray first cos don’t know which letter I will find. What they can easily tell you over the phone, they’d rather send a letter.

You also have to be careful when downloading and streaming movies online. Torrents are not allowed. You could decide to download the latest Batman movie from your favorite black market website and think it’s okay. The next week, you’ll receive a letter from Waldorf Frommer, with a bill of €1,500 that you downloaded a movie illegally and they detected it. Yes, they trace your IP address and address the letter to whoever’s name the WiFi is registered to.

Many people have gotten in trouble because of this. If you don’t pay, they’ll hand you over to a debt collection agency and take you to court. It is not a joke. You can deny watching the movie but they’ve heard it all before.

Haykins2115:
Thanks to op,you've done a very great job.
I'm studying education related courses currently in Nigeria,I just want to know how easy its going to be after finishing my MSC to secure a job as a teacher/lecturer over there in Berlin. since someone has to practice what they learn.

post111:
Thank you very much op.
But, what is the chances of a Nigerian law graduates in Germany?

Danielhouston:


You can definitely study in Germany but you’ll require a certain level of German to study medicine. It is also very competitive to get a place. Gottingen has the best medical University of the 3 you mentioned. It’s also a small and very boring city. Almost like a ghost town.

In terms of job, you can be assured that German patients will not trust you with their life. You can also open your own praxis here if you can afford it. You can get a job after you study but don’t expect to soar in your career. Alternatively, you can study here and go find a job in another country.

Permanent stay comes after a few years of living and working here. You’ll first get a work stay, then you can get a permanent stay after about 5 or 6 years if you meet the requirements. Your years as a student is also counted.

Hadampson:


Lol.. Even though I'm an optimist, I don't think my journey to Germany is going to be anytime soon cos of covid-19, financial situation etc

@2nd bolded, I'm sure you're talking about Neuschwanstein

I think the castle was the real-life inspiration for the castle in the Disney classic, Cinderella

Danielhouston:


True. Racism is why blacks in Europe would stab each other in the back just to please the white man. I stay away from those type of people.

themaestro08:


Scaremongers have completely succeed in misleading you with their inaccurate and extreme rhetoric.

Let's be clear here, racism in Germany is not as bad as as this guys exaggerate.

Danielhouston:


I live in a shared apartment and the contract is in someone else’s name. Service providers cannot give me contracts. I can only buy with cash. For example, if I wanted to buy the latest iPhone which cost €700 and my Schufa was good, I could get a contract and pay €30 per month until I complete the money. But with a bad score, I can only pay the entire €700. No contracts.

Ugoerico:
Sorry about that bro, coudnt you just set off the debt and be free? Can't imagine seeing mysef in such position. Those rights and privileges are very important to ones growth and confort here. Anyway you are a Bachelor shaa so u can always wangle. More grace bro!

Danielhouston:


Life in Berlin is very interesting. Lots of psychos and hipsters. Very crazy but exciting culture. They always say Berlin is not Germany and I believe it. You can see someone so good looking but once you get close to them: BOOM... they’re mental.

so much freedom in Berlin and nothing shocks them. You can walk around with a tree on your head and identify as a chicken, nobody cares.

It is also the home of the gays in Europe. The gays here are not to be played with. They’re treated with top priority and love. The hardest thing here is finding a flat or room to rent, because everyone wants to live in Berlin.

Danielhouston:


I believe I talked about job/career and the struggles of black people here. You can own a business. There are many black business owners. Some have shops, some do other businesses. There are also restaurants owned by black people. Like Jamaican restaurant, Nigerian/Ghanaian restaurant, Eritrean restaurant... if you can afford it and you can get the license, go for it. You just have to follow the rules of running a business like everyone else.

As for climbing the ladder, Germany is not designed for Black people or foreigners to prosper. You can be comfortable and successful but you will not be up there with the Germans. UK is better than Germany when it comes to successful black people. Things are changing, thanks to the black Americans coming in. The Black Americans are calling them out on their racism steadily and they don’t tolerate nonsense. It is not a land where dreams come true. It is a place where dreams can be pursued.

Danielhouston:


Things don’t work like that in Germany. Even if you can afford it, you have to explain where the money came from, your other sources of income and if you’re cheating the system in anyway. This is not Nigeria where you do some runs and be throwing money into your First Bank account and nobody will ask you questions.

That’s why you have to state your income and agree with the company on a certain amount you can pay every month. The percentage of the interest is also calculated that way. If you pay more than the agreed monthly amount, it means your income has improved, so will the percentage.
I can have a business in Nigeria where I make enough money to pay off the debt but I can’t pay it cos it would be considered money laundering. So I have to do so from my salary, bit by bit.

Ugoerico:
Bro reduce your speed a little and understand the suggestion/question i asked first. You said earlier that the solution is for one to clear his debts and have a clean sheet again. I now suggested if you could try and clear yours and get your clean Schufer back. You started telling me it doesn't work like that in Germany. To pay ones dept is no longer allowed? Or u no plan pay am ni? Did I ask you to launder money or do any other illegal stuff here other than the debt which according to you, were not meant to be defaulted? Thought you mentioned here that income was checked and amount to pay monthly was calculated and agreed on, so how is settling same debt tantamount to money laundering or cheating the system? .

Hadampson:


It's actually €10,236

Ifiok21:
Can you converse in German and how long have you been learning German for your B1 certificate

Danielhouston:
People pls understand that racism is not something you overcome by speaking the language and pretending it doesn’t exist. Ignoring racism does not make it go away. And no, you can not live above it. That thought is dangerous.

The issue of Yoruba vs Igbo and Bayelsa choosing their own people is NOT racism. That is tribalism. They are different things. The issue of South Africans attacking Nigerians is NOT racism. It is prejudice. Pls know the difference. Racism has to do with “race”. Black people cannot be racist towards each other.

A lot of black people in Europe suffer internalized racism, they think if they do things to make the white man happy and take the blame for the racism they experience, it will make it better. You can integrate all you want, speak the language, obey the law, kiss their behind and they will still hate you! There is no excuse for racism and it is NOT your fault. Don’t let them guilt trip you.

I try as much to stay away from black people who don’t see racism or who pretend it doesn’t exist. They are the worst. Some of them are married to racist white people. They’re the ones the racist white people are referring to when they say “I’m not racist, my husband is black”, “I’m not racist, my best friend is black”. Don’t be that black friend. Call them out!

If you’re tired of hearing about racism, close your ears and keep living in Lala land. Don’t tell people not to talk about it or that they’re over reacting. The rights you’re enjoying today is because some black people never stopped talking about it. They fought for your right to travel abroad.

Danielhouston:


Yes I can converse in German. I studied A1 in Nigeria at Goethe institute. After I moved here, I learned some street German. When I enrolled in language school here, I wrote a test for them to determine what level I would start from. They scored me and said I would start from A2-2. So I completed A2-2 and B1 in 3 months.

The idea here is that you study A1-1, A1-2, A2-1, A2-2, B1, then you write the B1 exam. You don’t write any exams from A2 until B1. You can go from A1-1 to B1 in 6 months. If you start from A2-2, you can complete B1 in 3 months and get a certificate.

Danielhouston:
People pls understand that racism is not something you overcome by speaking the language and pretending it doesn’t exist. Ignoring racism does not make it go away. And no, you can not live above it. That thought is dangerous.

The issue of Yoruba vs Igbo and Bayelsa choosing their own people is NOT racism. That is tribalism. They are different things. The issue of South Africans attacking Nigerians is NOT racism. It is prejudice. Pls know the difference. Racism has to do with “race”. Black people cannot be racist towards each other.

A lot of black people in Europe suffer internalized racism, they think if they do things to make the white man happy and take the blame for the racism they experience, it will make it better. You can integrate all you want, speak the language, obey the law, kiss their behind and they will still hate you! There is no excuse for racism and it is NOT your fault. Don’t let them guilt trip you.

I try as much to stay away from black people who don’t see racism or who pretend it doesn’t exist. They are the worst. Some of them are married to racist white people. They’re the ones the racist white people are referring to when they say “I’m not racist, my husband is black”, “I’m not racist, my best friend is black”. Don’t be that black friend. Call them out!

If you’re tired of hearing about racism, close your ears and keep living in Lala land. Don’t tell people not to talk about it or that they’re over reacting. The rights you’re enjoying today is because some black people never stopped talking about it. They fought for your right to travel abroad.

Danielhouston:
People pls understand that racism is not something you overcome by speaking the language and pretending it doesn’t exist. Ignoring racism does not make it go away. And no, you can not live above it. That thought is dangerous.

The issue of Yoruba vs Igbo and Bayelsa choosing their own people is NOT racism. That is tribalism. They are different things. The issue of South Africans attacking Nigerians is NOT racism. It is prejudice. Pls know the difference. Racism has to do with “race”. Black people cannot be racist towards each other.

A lot of black people in Europe suffer internalized racism, they think if they do things to make the white man happy and take the blame for the racism they experience, it will make it better. You can integrate all you want, speak the language, obey the law, kiss their behind and they will still hate you! There is no excuse for racism and it is NOT your fault. Don’t let them guilt trip you.

I try as much to stay away from black people who don’t see racism or who pretend it doesn’t exist. They are the worst. Some of them are married to racist white people. They’re the ones the racist white people are referring to when they say “I’m not racist, my husband is black”, “I’m not racist, my best friend is black”. Don’t be that black friend. Call them out!

If you’re tired of hearing about racism, close your ears and keep living in Lala land. Don’t tell people not to talk about it or that they’re over reacting. The rights you’re enjoying today is because some black people never stopped talking about it. They fought for your right to travel abroad.

Acuna91:
This recism thing is scaring me out mehn. But wait is recism that bad in Germany?

Ugoerico:
I try not to reply people or engage anybody in a discussion of Racism in Germany. Because I found out that ignorance, irrationality and biasness play alot of roles during such arguments or discussion..

Thus, i have been once asked by people in Nigeria, "Erico how do you walk and work in Germany with the kind of racism we do hear about"?
Another once asked me, "as a black man are you allowed to enter everywhere you want in Germany or enter everywhere that a German can enter?" My reply I guess is not important here.

Firstly, I say Racism exists everywhere in the world in diferent forms not just in Germany. The contemporary racism in SOUTHAFRICA where fellow Africans get kicked out, brutalized and even killed is even worst..

Not only Charity but everything begins at home. One that exists in Nigeria amongst tribes is called what? I have seen where hundreds of House Officers(Doctors) and Internship applicants during a recruitment at a federal hospital in Bayelsa were openly mocked for wasting thier time to apply when they knew they didn't come from Bayelsa state.

I remember after my NYSC in 2010 in Abuja, I once went with my Kogi frends to see the then Minister of Justice Mallam Adoke who was thier brother to submit our CV, but on getting there they spoke only thier language Okene language or so and ended up submitting only thier CVs without mine, I was not even allowed to follow them to enter his office cos I'm not thier tribe!

The Palliatives and other National benefits they are currently distributing in Nigeria, is it evenly distributed across tribes and Races?

That stuff you are calling Racism is what i call "Preferenciallism" in its actual sense which is part of the world structure unfortunately, and we are all guilty in one way or the other, directly or indirectly. It is so because if you have once in your life preferred someone against another over an equitable affair, then believe me, it's same thing.

While some Blacks or Brown or whatever colour you call it are complaining of Racism in Germany, many Germans are also complaining bitterly too of being discriminated against by the German govt by "preferring" or spending hugely on immigrants more than them the citizens?? You now see that atimes it's a relative and conceptual thing.

The only glaring and abnormal form of racism is when it is supported or perpetrated by any Govt such like it was in 1940s in Germany and the outcome of it remains story and history. I think the tales of such sour history still tend to give some people the stereotypical impression of everyday racism in Germany, even when Germany currently has one the strictest laws against racism and discrimination.

In summary, when you feel descriminiated against anywhere, brave up to yourself and resist it, you can also seek redress by exploring the existing laws against such act since such acts are outlawed in most countries.

My worst experience of "racism" here that I can remember was when I first started working with Germans in a firm where I was not only the black man in that work, but also the only non German who could not freely and eloquently express himself in Deutsh( it's a part of Germany where English is not spoken one bit). They were then utilizing my speaking and understanding deficiency to shift ALL errors and blames which arise from the work to me. Sometimes before I could put together my verbs and tenses to talk, they issue is already over.. So I was accepting virtually all guilts and blames of others, I was really burning inside me and started gradually having depressive moods.

But what happened thereafter? How did I tackle it? O mehn I used the last drop of my blood and started learning the language as if my life was hinged on it, took my Language course extremely serios, went further and bought many books and materials, at home nothing else appeared on my TV other than YouTube channels of almost all Deutsch teachers, bought a new ear piece for listening every godamn time I'm outside(good a thing I didn't develop ear problem due to constant sound in the ear ), i made German frends (especially ladies) that I chat with, speak with and vist. After many months of intense training, I saw that I have improved so heavily I took my B1 exam and got almost 100% in all segments, registered for the integration course exam (the score is required whenever u want to apply for citizenship) and made 100% (33/33). I was very happy yet I entered again another B2 school for 6 months intensive after which I started speaking sound quality Deutsch( a couple of govt offices I entered also told me so). I use even idioms, a couple of times I have used big vocabularies that one or two Germans had to check thier meanings in the dictionary and admitted they weren't used to those terminologies.

Now in my work place i work VERY CONFIDENTLY, the way I tackle anybody in my work place trying to be stupid around me eh, all those acts I receive stoped Instantly.

Finally survival is like mathematics, everyman must find his own formular or live by copying from others!