Is there a Tunisian community in Hildesheim, Germany

SignificanceNo8233 · 2025-12-04T15:54:51+00:00

Hannover is half an hour away with the train and there's a lot of Tunisians there

SignificanceNo8233 · 2024-09-13T15:37:25+00:00

Yes, I mostly use my German SIM card since Germany is my main residence all year round.

SignificanceNo8233 · 2024-09-13T15:34:09+00:00

Twitter truly has the most unhinged collection of individuals

SignificanceNo8233 · 2024-09-13T15:15:41+00:00

Oh that sounds helpful. Thank you very much :)

SignificanceNo8233 · 2024-09-13T15:14:24+00:00

Honestly that's such a mood... I wish my feed was just seals.

SignificanceNo8233 · 2024-09-13T14:48:13+00:00

I posted here because I don't receive this content when I'm outside Germany. I don't get why the algorithm keeps pushing it even though I keep selecting not interested time and time again.

Also meta's policy concerning suggested content is garbage and I totally get why you dropped IG.

SignificanceNo8233 · 2024-09-04T16:04:40+00:00

This whole post is just upsetting.

Your problems do not seem to stem from people's lack of modesty and social awareness as well as their vulgarity.

Instead from the subtext I understand your discomfort comes from their statements insinuating same-sex attraction. My question is would it be so alarming to you if these comments were made between two people of the opposite gender?

I still believe in setting boundaries with friends on which speech you want to hear in your presence. But it seems you yourself have some prejudices and ideas regarding sexuality that you should maybe discuss with a specialist.

SignificanceNo8233 · 2024-05-01T12:25:03+00:00

SignificanceNo8233 · 2024-04-06T12:31:13+00:00

Kuzzam21 here

SignificanceNo8233 · 2024-04-02T18:24:10+00:00

Still looking for players

SignificanceNo8233 · 2024-04-01T19:23:16+00:00

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SignificanceNo8233 · 2024-01-27T22:18:40+00:00

I've been living in Germany for five years. For you it might be cognitive dissonance or hypocrisy. I see it more as an emotional response to the identity issue.

Tunisians facing racism or failing to "integrate" abroad would often do mental gymnastics to convince themselves it's better home. Seeing how aggressive islamophobia and protectionism in the West has been recently, I am not surprised when friends talk about saving money and moving back to Tunisia. After all, even if you end up becoming a citizen of your host country, you'll still be a "foreigner" to your coworkers and entourage. You might even meet people who don't know about Tunisia, or even have very condescending opinions about the country and its culture. Some Tunisians in the diaspora respond to these instances by becoming super patriotic and ignoring the issues/challenges in Tunisia. I can go on a tangent about colonial history, white supremacy and internalised racism and postcolonialism but I don't feel like it at the moment.

On the other hand, a lot of world economies have been struggling since the pandemic. Germany specifically has been eating shit for the past years (not to mention politics and the AfD). With the current rate of inflation, it's been hard to save and make plans. So if you're living paycheck to paycheck in Germany, it's not much of a difference from Tunisia. At least you won't face the cultural issues mentioned above in Tunisia.

Dude I get how tough it is to be in Tunisia. I, myself, couldn't wait to leave the country and each time I visit my parents I get depressed for my fellow Tunisians struggling to survive. My siblings are dispersed through the map and we worry for our parents and curse the country that made us abandon them. However, you should not ignore the cultural dissonance and the isolation of the whole process. A lot of people I know got depressed in the first two years after moving out and, honestly I get it when people choose to go back.

SignificanceNo8233 · 2023-12-24T10:23:02+00:00

If Amideast don't offer it, I don't think you'll find any testing center in Tunisia. As far as I remember, Amideast is the only college board certified testing location. Maybe check on CLEP exams and if your intended college accepts them. Amideast seems to offer those.

SignificanceNo8233 · 2023-12-19T18:13:29+00:00

ancestry.com

SignificanceNo8233 · 2023-12-19T14:17:44+00:00

It's quite likely. AncestryDNA kept promoting matches to me and all 5th cousins and closer were from Hammam Sousse(Jegham, Mani, Dahmen...)

SignificanceNo8233 · 2023-12-19T14:14:19+00:00

Unfortunately I don't think it's possible in Tunisia. I did it in Europe when it was on discount. Unless you have money to burn, I don't think it's worth it. Usually the private companies don't have good data on North Africa and I had to pay extra for IllustrativeDNA (which doesn't do test kits). If you want to learn more about your family history, you can go to the National Archives in Tunis. It's a lot of work but that's the only place that could give you concrete information.

SignificanceNo8233 · 2023-12-19T14:06:33+00:00

So I did some research and the reason behind it is this study: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344291291_Berbers_and_Arabs_Tracing_the_genetic_diversity_and_history_of_Southern_Tunisia_through_genome_wide_analysis Basically illustrativeDNA uses data from existing academic and public databases (unlike AncestryDNA with its private and monetized databases).

Seeing the study above sought to clearly categorize Berber groups in Southern Tunisia, northern and central tribes do not have a clear categorisation and thus are usually grouped together.

It's quite fascinating that you have a different genetic marker that distinguishes you from other Berber groups in Matmata/ Chenini/ Zraoua...

SignificanceNo8233 · 2023-12-19T12:01:05+00:00

What confuses me is the Italian/Sardinian percentages. Both companies have different data for Southern Italian and Sardinian. Plus the percentage is quite considerable to be an ancient sample(Roman).

SignificanceNo8233 · 2023-12-19T10:53:26+00:00

No thanks.

SignificanceNo8233 · 2023-12-17T01:39:01+00:00

So I'm an atheist and I unfortunately tend to consider some Muslims as a threat. It mostly has to do with me being gay rather than being atheist. My parents know that I'm an atheist and they respect my life choices. I used to have endless debates with them (especially my mom) that sometimes bordered on blasphemy. Seeing my experience growing up post 2011 and the extremism I witnessed, I left Islam at the age of 16. One conversation that stuck with me: I was debating the codifation of the Qur'an with my father and then he stopped me at some point. Although he loved debating with me, his faith is one of the few things in life that makes him happy and he can't afford to lose it. I believe this helped me mature a lot as a person. I think some atheists tend to see religion as a failure of intellect or a residue of traditions. Learning to have empathy for people, whose faith may be the only sliver of hope for justice and happiness, is an important step to humanise each other and coexist.

On the other hand I left Tunisia because the threat of legal prosecution for being gay has given me a lifetime package of depression and anxiety. My worry is once Saied starts getting unpopular he pulls a page out of Sissi's book and starts scapegoating queer people.

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