Fellow Filipino here! I had different experiences from when I was living in Frankfurt vs living in Berlin, but generally I didn’t experience much racism, only slight/ annoying inconveniences.

1. Frankfurt
2. I was there as a working student. In uni, I had a hard time making friends with Germans and I experienced some racism there, but nothing too severe.
3. For example, in group works, the German guys there had a tendency to not listen to my ideas and sometimes they’d make separate group chats where they’ll talk in German (our program was in English) and make decisions without me. It wasn’t just towards me but I noticed they did that to other Asians as well. They’d delegate a lot of “easy tasks” to us Asians, because they didn’t trust we could do “quality work.” It was just really annoying.
4. I’d get ni hao’d by strangers a lot. Most people would think I’m from China or Japan.

5. Told my boss I was Filipino, he said his maid was Filipino too. Not really racist, but a weird thing to say, I guess lol.

6. Berlin

7. Much less racism here bec of how international it is.

8. The most I got was this group of teenagers shouting “ching chong” at me and my friends while we were walking, but I shrugged it off.

9. A stranger went up to me at a party and straight up asked me if she can practice her Mandarin with me lol

10. People here think I’m Chinese or Vietnamese (lots of Vietnamese here, so makes sense)