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arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I did not see a black person in real life until i was 16 in 2010 and traveled to Florida. And by then i had already traveled around Germany and France. I do not imagine the probability of bumping into one was higher in the 50’s

I’m sorry, but I doubt this. I live in Germany myself and see several black people a day. Not usually something I track, but this conversation got me thinking so I paid extra attention during my normal commute. Germany does not collect racial demographics for obvious reasons, but France does. They’ve expirenced roughly a 3% increase in their black population from 2010 to today. Going from 3 to 6%.

If we assume at least a similar increase I find never real hard to believe. Like I don’t really want to just call you a liar, but it’s just statistically unlikely unless you avoided urban areas all that time.

Also this is an interesting read and touches on the exact solider relations I was talking about at least for Germany.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Germans

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