I've always found the perception of Berlin to be a diverse city to be kind of laughable...the only city in Europe I find truly diverse is London and even then, it's not that diverse compared to NY. Berlin is pretty diverse with certain regions I would say (ie: various Europeans, for example) but it has a really small amount of Asians compared to most cities in the US and there are a lot of places here where I can literally count how many Asians there are...it's also kind of funny when you go to a lot of the Asian restaurants here and are literally the only Asian person there. Not necessarily going to call it backward but it's just different.

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I also sometimes feel like the multiculturalism here can feel very consumptive...as if my cultural background is just used for certain people to try on and be cool or something. I can't explain it...