(05-05-2016 09:01 PM)rudebwoy Wrote:  Kirdiesel - I have heard in several cities in Germany, they don't allow blacks in. Is this true? I know Germans do not like Turks, how do they feel about Blacks or Africans?

Reading the migrant thread it sounds like the place is under chaos.

Glad you asked.

This is 100% true. Blacks and Turks/Arab/Southern Europeans have problems getting into nightclubs. In the higher end nightclubs (where the best lizards go) even more so.

There are solutions to this problem such as going with white girls or white guys (girls better) or becoming a regular in the nightclub scene. I have no problems getting into clubs anywhere in my area due to figuring this out. Blacks/Africans are let in in limited numbers.

I will have to check the migrant thread because there is NOTHING going on in Cologne at the moment. There have been a few "issues" here and there since New Years but nothing else as far as I know.

Maybe its my area but it seems to me this whole "refugee problem" is overhyped. Everytime a large amount of immigrants start moving to an area.. the natives of that area will get pissed.

Right now anyone with a "Arab or North African or Moroccan" look in Germany is at the bottom of the totem pole... Blacks are above IMO. Theres just not THAT many anyway and most are peaceful.

(05-05-2016 09:36 PM)kirdiesel Wrote:  Glad you asked.

This is 100% true. Blacks and Turks/Arab/Southern Europeans have problems getting into nightclubs. In the higher end nightclubs (where the best lizards go) even more so.

I'm the kind of guy that will fly in to run game on Black/Turk/Arab/Southern European WOMEN.


Wolfgang is not feeling that brown skin and phat ass?
Archie will make em feel sexy!

WIA

(05-05-2016 09:40 PM)WestIndianArchie Wrote:  

(05-05-2016 09:36 PM)kirdiesel Wrote:  Glad you asked.

This is 100% true. Blacks and Turks/Arab/Southern Europeans have problems getting into nightclubs. In the higher end nightclubs (where the best lizards go) even more so.

I'm the kind of guy that will fly in to run game on Black/Turk/Arab/Southern European WOMEN.


Wolfgang is not feeling that brown skin and phat ass?
Archie will make em feel sexy!

WIA

The racism at the door is more towards the men than the women. However I have regrettably seen fine ass black women get turned away from the door. I admittedly was angry and wanted to say something about it but thus is life in Germany.

Blacks, Turks and Southern Euros have their own clubs and so youll mostly find them in those places although like i said before youll find some in the main spots but there wont be a plethora.

I'm late for this, but...


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(05-05-2016 05:37 AM)WestIndianArchie Wrote:  Carlton Bank's game (Fresh Prince of Bellaire)

Where Steve Urkle was considered a nerd, Carlton was considered white. I know a lot of dudes struggle with this. They get tested from their "own" folks and never fully accepted by others. It's a no (wo)man's land when it comes to dating and socializing.

How would you make the game of these black men great again?

WIA

Some people are shooting this down, but I still believe travel is the best answer. At a bare minimum, they need to learn what's out there and understand that the American bar to which they are harshly judged is not universal. There do exist places where they can be who they are and find appeal, and there are women elsewhere who will like what they have to offer (assuming they nail the fundamental components of game that everyone must master for success and don't thirstily simp their way to oblivion). At a bare minimum, just getting a taste of an environment in which they are actually judged on a more even playing field without the racial baggage and mental weight placed upon them in the USA can do wonders, even after they return to the states.

As kirkdiesel said, foreign lands offer no panacea, but they can allow one to take a step in the right direction. Sometimes, that's all we can ask for.

(05-02-2016 11:59 AM)Fortis Wrote:  This isn't a poke at you in particular, SuS, but I always get the impression that dudes over think race, especially us Americans.

I have European friends who are mixed and they simply don't take it the same way that american might. Sure, their dad is black and mom is white, but they're British and that's just what it is. I can't speak to their experiences, but I don't get the impression that they think about it all that much, but I could be wrong.

Meanwhile, I've got an American half-black/half-white friend who was obsessing over race so much that he contrived this hilarious story of how he's probably 51% white because his family (on the black side) descended from slaves, so some rape must have gone and so he's clearly mostly white. Just absurd.

Americans are the only people who will tell you they're 1/16th native american (as though it matters). I think race obsession is a uniquely American thing. I was talking with Belgrano (forum member here) and he was laughing about how in the NOLA area they had different classifications for people all based on how much black you had in you: octaroon, decaroon etc. It's all just hilariously contrived to an outsider's eye.

It is interesting that this has come up here because I've been having these conversations online for a while with regard to football (soccer) and they have shed a lot of light on this topic for me.

I'm a supporter of the Jamaican national football (soccer) team and I take a strong interest generally in the goings on of the Jamaican diaspora generally in all things. Soccer brings up a lot of topics relating to the diaspora in this context because Jamaica is a land of migrants - there are as many people with Jamaican heritage outside of Jamaica as within it. The main hotspots are the UK, Canada, and USA.
In international football (for those who aren't into soccer), national teams are allowed to recruit players to represent them who may not have been born in their country, but have an ancestral tie (through a parent or grandparent) to it.

What this effectively means is that though Jamaica itself only has a little under 3 million people on the island, it is able to recruit soccer talent from the UK, USA, and Canada from among the descendants of Jamaican migrants in those lands. The current Jamaican national team consists of many players born and raised in England who have Jamaican-born parents or grand-parents. The youth teams include a lot of players with Jamaican parents who were raised in places like Atlanta, New York City, and Philadelphia.

Studying the dynamics behind Jamaican football's recruitment and general interaction with players in its diaspora revealed a lot to me about the different cultures in play and how they each integrate Jamaican migrants and their children. It showed that the USA, Canada, and the UK are far from the same in how they view Afro-Caribbean immigrants and how they treat them.

Whenever I got into discussion with Englishmen about all of the players in England who have Jamaican blood and are eligible to represent Jamaica, I ran into a confounding issue: the refusal of many to even acknowledge that these players were anything but English and, even in the case of those who made such acknowledgement, the refusal to acknowledge that said Jamaican heritage mattered relative to their English identity.

At first, I couldn't understand why this was. I figured that perhaps the English were tapping into their historical imperial sentiments and dismissing the relevance/value of a much smaller former colony. Maybe they were just ignorant, or arrogant, or some combination of those things, and it is this that caused them to be so dismissive of Jamaican ancestral ties within their population.

Over time, I came to realize that these were not the main issues. The real cause was simple: integration.

The English simply do a better job of integrating Afro-British peoples (especially the Caribbeans) than others do. Jamaicans in England feel more British than Jamaican in America feel American.

Sure enough, this is illustrating in the soccer recruiting dynamics I outlined earlier. Jamaica has a pretty hard time getting English-born players to represent the country. For every one that commits, three or four others either dismiss Jamaica outright or show limited/lukewarm interest. It is very hard for Jamaica to get high quality English-Jamaicans to represent Jamaica, even when it is clear that said players have no hope of representing England. It seems that many of these players would rather wait for an England call that will never come than represent Jamaica. It is also very tough for English Jamaican to get players early. The number who commit to Jamaica early in their careers (as teens or in their early twenties) is minuscule - most only join after age 26 or so (the bulk are closer to 30). The ones who commit early do so after facing heavy pressure from parents and relatives to wait longer just in case England calls (even when the odds of England doing so seem close to nil).

Contrast this with the Americans, who are about as enthusiastic as it gets. They commit early (there are tons of American-born Jamaicans in the Jamaican Under 17 and Under 20 squads), flaunt their nationality proudly on all their social media profiles and sports bios, mention it in every interview, and are usually supported wholeheartedly by their parents in declaring for Jamaica (in fact, the parents are some of the biggest motivators in their declaration). They'll fly down to the island for camps, host Jamaican-born prospects at their homes when they come to visit for trials/camps in the states, recruit other Jamaican-Americans, and generally do anything and everything they can to show their commitment to Jamaica.

Why the difference? It's integration. The English-born are far better integrated into mainstream English society than their American born counterparts. They feel more English than their American counterparts feel American. They belong more fully to England than the Americans belong to America. This makes them more distant from their Jamaican roots, and more generally dismissive of it. When you talk to them and ask them what they are, they'll say they're English. Not "1/2 Jamaican" or "1/4 Jamaican", not "English-Jamaican" or "Jamaican-English", but just English. That's it. Press them and they'll tell you their gran or mum was born on the islands, but that's as far as it goes.

I've gotten the chance to see some of this dynamic in my own family. I was born in the USA, but my mother is English-born and raised. Her parents were Jamaican migrants to England, part of the massive wave that came in the 50's and 60's. My mother moved to the USA for school, had me, and stuck around, but most of her extended family (my aunts and second/third cousins) stayed in the UK. In interacting with the British branch of my family, I can see first hand the differences between us.

They intermarry at a FAR higher rate. We spend a lot of time here talking about the barriers that face black men looking to date outside the race here in the USA - these barriers are far lower in the UK. Almost all of the women in my extended family are with white Englishmen. Most of the men are dating interacially as well. And it's not just us - the mixing has gotten so intense that several news articles written not long ago lamented the coming extinction of the British Afro-Caribbean people due to intermarriage. More than HALF of Black British men of Caribbean blood in the UK (and over a third of the women) were marrying out according to the statistics cited by these articles, and I've seen first hand what they were talking about. Such a state of affairs would be unimaginable here in the USA - the stigma attached to IR dating alone is just so much greater as to make the situations incomparable.

They are also far more comfortable with the majority than I find we are here in the states. Race relations in the USA carry with them so much tension that, sometimes, it almost feels like we're at war. It shows on us too - several posters in this thread have pointed out the propensity of American-born brothas in this thread to hold a certain type of viewpoint that is more pessimistic and perhaps a little less self-confident than that seem from others who've been raised outside the states.
I think their observations are on point, and the cause is simple: it is a war here, and it does wear you down. I've written about it multiple times on the forum. It's hard to feel one with a society that seems fundamentally hostile to what you are, filled with people who are uncomfortable with what you are.

In the UK, the intensity of this fight is just toned down dramatically. My relatives talk and interact in a way that doesn't show anywhere near the same level of tension and discomfort with the majority (this is also reflected in the aforementioned higher intermarriage rates). My mother once said to me that the very best white friends she ever made were during her time in England, and that she was able to mesh there better than she ever has here. This is saying something since her time in England came during a time in which things were substantially less progressive than they are now (50's, 60's, 70's). Racial incidents occurred and she never forgot them, but on the whole my mother noted that there was just a more welcoming, friendly feel about working with the majority there than she's seen in her 30 years living here.

All of this is to say that my personal observations support your conclusion about the differences between Americans and others in how much attention is place on race, and the cause is integration. The Black British are not totally free of racial turbulence, but have a majority populace that is less openly hostile to them, more open about what they can be/who they may be (they're not typecasted as often into stereotypes the way black Americans are, i.e. "acting black", "acting white", etc), and a mainstream majority culture far more willing to embrace them fully (not just on a surface level). All of this makes them feel more at home, and more willing to disregard their heritage (including whatever racial identity comes with it) and just call themselves Englishmen. Race isn't in their face 24/7 and they're not constantly beaten over the head with it as a means to determine who they should be, so it's easier for its to fade into the background and allow them to just blend in.

Circling this back to football, check out this response I got from an English football fan recently in a discussion about English-Jamaican dual nationals and the role they play in many top English teams (including recent English Premier League Champions Leicester, whose captain in English-born but represents Jamaica). Here is what they guy said:

Quote:I know a lot of guys with Caribbean parents, and honestly without them mentioning it at one point or another I wouldn't have even known it. They're just so very similar to your average guy

The quote blew me away. He looked at guys with Caribbean parents (guys who I presume are black/mixed race like the bulk of Caribbeans) and just saw someone similar to "your average guy". He didn't mention their appearance at all, and it doesn't seem as though their appearance clued him in on the notion that they might be the children of migrants (even though it'd have been reasonable of him if it did - the vast majority of black britons are only on their 3rd generation in the UK, most having arrived after 1950. If you're black and British, you're almost certainly the child or grandchild of immigrants).

The way he described the guys he knew almost totally separated race from the equation in describing their identity. It flashed at me immediately because of how rare it's been in my lifetime - this kind of thing simply doesn't happen in the USA. Race is always a part of the equation in American society, and a significant part at that. How you are perceived, treated, expected to behave/interact, and even just generally live your life is always touched by assumptions tied to your race/ethnicity. You're never just "the average guy". Average BLACK guy, maybe, but to have someone (particularly someone of the dominant majority) look at you in such a way as to totally disregard race as a factor in their determination of your identity? No way.

This is unheard of in the USA, but in the UK there are a very large number of people who feel this way and thing this way. They're the same people who, whenever I get into a discussion with them about English-Jamaican players, insist the players are not Jamaican at all, just English. It's not just a disrespect for Jamaica, but a simply a dismissal of their heritage (and the race that it comes with) as a factor in their identity. The fact that these men are of Jamaican heritage and predominantly West African extraction is just totally irrelevant to them - they're as English as everyone else in their birth and upbringing and that's all that matters.

In America, things are very different. Race impacts everything we do here. Mainstream culture is far more hostile/less welcoming, blacks are typecasted constantly (resulting in all the "acting white/acting black" bs and the assorted romantic, social, and cultural hurdles that come with it and create more tension), and racial turbulence is far more acute both now and in the recent past. Slavery, Jim Crow/Segregation, and the one-drop rule are among the rules/systems that were never enforced in the British Isles; the residents of the English-homeland never had occasion to abide such systems and their consequential effects on the perception of non-white peoples and their place in society. In America, however, these things are all fundamental to American existence and were foundational aspects of America's legal, political, and economic system from its founding as a colony in the 17th century to the middle of the 20th century (remember that it was only about 50 years ago that it became legal in all states for a black male to marry a non-black woman and vice-versa).

This is all incredibly relevant today - we're in a country that based its social and economic foundation on the explicit hierarchical subjugation of black people as inferiors (first with slavery and then Jim Crow/segregation) for almost the entirety of its existence, from the establishment of the 13 colonies in 1607 until about 1970. That's about 363 years out of the total of about 410 that the USA has existed in one form of another - this is not something that just goes away. The hostility toward blacks that underlined such systems and made their persistence possible didn't just disappear in the last 4 decades. It's still here, and we feel that.

Because we live with that here in the states, it is harder for us to forget about our race/ethnicity and just "be" as our English counter-parts do. Instead, we obsess about our race. We obsess about percentages of our racial ancestry and everything else related to it because it matters here in a way it just doesn't in the UK. It looks absurd to many outsiders, but that's only because said outsiders didn't evolve in lands subject to America's historical race-centric norms and have never lived in a society flooded with the consequences of such norms to anywhere near the same extent.

Sometimes I wish English Jamaicans were as enthusiastic about developing and representing Jamaica as their American counterparts because I want to see a stronger Jamaica, boosted by ALL members of its diaspora. I dream of seeing all of the best individuals of Jamaican blood representing Jamaica in all things, not just football, for the benefit of the island. I know this won't happen because of the distance that integration creates for English-Jamaicans with respect to their heritage. I'm disappointed by this, but at the same time I kind of envy them.
I grew up wishing quite often that I could just be "a guy" and not "a guy who is black" or "the black guy". I grew up hoping that my race wouldn't matter so much to people I interacted with, just the way it clearly didn't matter much to the English fan above when he interacted with all of those guys with Caribbean parents (seeing them as merely "average guys" and totally ignoring their racial background/heritage). I wished I could just devote less energy to the whole topic of race and everything related to it. Some of my British peers get to live something closer (as in not a perfect panacea, but several steps in the right direction) to this dream but, unfortunately, that's just not possible here in the USA. It is nice to feel like you truly belong in your country to a point at which it is all you are and race can become more secondary, but having been born and raised here in the USA, I'll probably never know quite how that feels.

Not today

Do you keep things at your place specifically for "guests" that you entertain? Stuff that you'll never use?

Katt Williams said he kept a bottle of hypnotic just for broads.

After that, I started keeping contact solution at the spot.

WIA

Contact solution? Your lizards short sighted? I keep coca cola, sprite, red wine and ciroc for my lizards

I only keep extra alcohol/white/red wine just in case I have an unexpected visitor. I already wear contacts so.

Lots of these chicks are vain and wear contacts.

Something I picked up, from watching girls at my place, they'd look at the bookshelf and find stuff.

I used to subscribe to cosmopolitan, Latina, and essence, along with other magazines. Put them on my coffee table. For whatever reason, chicks would not pick up Esquire, GQ, or the economist/business week. And I would bust them on it every time

I think there's a lot more to the psychological warfare aspect once you see the patterns. Need to pick up a book on retail merchandising

These new generation of chicks like tequila, vodka and the old faves white wine (Zinfadel), red wine and rose if you are posh.

(05-06-2016 07:49 AM)WestIndianArchie Wrote:  Not today

Do you keep things at your place specifically for "guests" that you entertain? Stuff that you'll never use?

Katt Williams said he kept a bottle of hypnotic just for broads.

After that, I started keeping contact solution at the spot.

WIA

Relevant

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/feature...32266.html

"But the rivalry that is common within polygamous families in Nigeria can make such efforts challenging."

You guys know a lot about this?

WIA

I always keep two bottles $3 white wine so I can make girls home-made Spritzers.

Dirt cheap. Prep time is 3 minutes for a whole pitcher. Looks healthy, classy & refreshing and even girls who don't like to drink (black girls) end up getting drunk off these. They just won't stop drinking. It's fun to make the girls chop the mints leaves and fruits while you prepare the rest.

Also sets you apart from the competition who offers them a Mountain Dew or Smirnoff Ice.

Haha Bro - you always come with some different shit.

Hats off my man!

Ana, break down what goes into that homemade spritzer, por favor. Gracias!

Back when I lived alone, I always got a kick out of chic's who swore up and down they only drank whatever trendy top-shelf liquor was out at the time, only to gulped down the drinks I made with with supermarket brand liquor inside of refilled brand name bottles and ask for seconds, lol.

One thing I made sure I kept was a 1-to-1 apple martini mix, martini shaker & glasses, and limes. Women ALWAYS got a kick out of me making professional looking and tasting drinks just for them. Aw man, the good ole days!

That said, here's what I found helped build comfort when entertaining at my house.

Never ever turn the TV on, (EVER) simply conversate, drink, put on music and dance. Especially slow dancing. Don't trust Pandora, keep yourself a custom made list of banging ass music.
A bathroom filled with the fluffiest, biggest, most softest towels you can find. I've had several women tell me how they imagined themselves wrapped in those towels after a morning shower.
A very neat bedroom, nicely made bed, comfy comforter and lots of pillows help. I think women just want to feel like your bed is the equivalent of a fresh bottle of champagne. Opened just for them.
Also, invest in some high quality sheets. Though seemingly corny, you cannot go wrong with some satin sheets.
I always kept some computer speakers on my headboard that I simply plugged my phone/mp3 player into when transitioning from the living room to bedroom to keep the flow going.
A single candle. It's not over the top where you look extra corny lighting candles like you're about to say a prayer in a Catholic church, but it really sets the mood, plus just enough light to see her body.

What are you guys doing to build comfort at the crib?

(05-06-2016 10:25 AM)Moma Wrote:  Ana, break down what goes into that homemade spritzer, por favor. Gracias!

The base ingredients for any spritzer is white wine and sparkling water in a 5:2 ratio. The sparkling water needs to be very cold. Once you got that down you can experiment ...

You can add almost anything short of your own piss and make it taste good. Mango juice, apple juice, sliced watermelons, cucumbers, limes, lemons, Campari or Angostura bitters, mint, blueberries, olives ... I even added sliced raw carrots once and told a girl it's great for skin because alcohol enhances the effects of beta carotene lol. Bitches are very visual when it comes to alcohol so it's all about presentation.

As for that specific Spritzer pictured above,

1. Trader Joe's "Two-Buck-Chuck" white wine like Pinot Grigio or Sauvingnon Blanc - $3 a bottle

2. Sparkling water

3. Thinly sliced cucumber slices.

4. Mint leaves ... but you can use Rosemary leaves or even lettuce. It's all about making it look "healthy" so the girl drinks more.

5. Lemon slices

6. Couple of spoons of powdered sugar and ice cubes.

I sometimes lace the drink with some Vodka as well to get them drunk quicker.

Two schools of thought on comfort in your space
- bare minimum (which is very low)
- going all out (which requires time, money, effort, and design)

I come at it from an entirely different perspective. I don't want her to just feel comfy or good (basic game), I want to elicit certain predictable responses. (Better, deeper, advanced, veteran game)

Shoes off rule that starts her taking her clothes off
No clocks
Limited seating so she has to sit next to me to be comfortable.
Blanket on the couch
Things for her to see that will prompt questions

It's like how bar owners create spaces that promote bodily contact because when a guy bumps into a girl, they'll both have an excuse for him to buy her a drink.

Guys are thinking small.

Ana's wine spritzer is tangentially about taste and alcohol. The real value is putting her to work, or giving a performance.

The mental aspect is the key.

Proper game is creating a mental experience like your immersing the girl in a real life movie.

A chick rarely likes you for you.
She likes how you make her feel,

But even more, the fact that you *can* make her *feel*

She's not getting stimulus from other guys. When you watch them, listen, observe - what you see is feeling junkies.

Understand that, and you can create illusions with just words

WIA

WIA, if you haven't already, have you ever considered writing a book? I see all these lames out here capitalizing off of basic interpersonal behavioral skills, but not too many with advanced techniques. Would be nice to see more brothers getting a piece of the pie.

(05-06-2016 01:36 PM)DimeBait Wrote:  WIA, if you haven't already, have you ever considered writing a book? I see all these lames out here capitalizing off of basic interpersonal behavioral skills, but not too many with advanced techniques. Would be nice to see more brothers getting a piece of the pie.

I been writing a book since the thread starters mentioned I should.

I've got too much material.

Organizing it all is bitch. But what I want to write is stuff for guys that have mastered the basics.

What guys actually need is the basics though.

When i launch a site, I'll let you guys know.

WIA

(05-05-2016 09:01 PM)rudebwoy Wrote:  Valentine - What would you say the cost of living is like in London? When you go out for a meal, typically how much do you pay?

Dinner for two can be £40 to £100 depending on where and amount of drinks. It's comparable to other capital cities in Europe like Paris. Really though it's accommodation that's the biggest cost.

(05-05-2016 09:13 PM)WestIndianArchie Wrote:  I'm getting the sense that a decent 1 bedroom flat is gonna run 1500 sterling, which is 2100+ USD.

And if you go by the idea that your rent should only be 1/4 of your net salary - that's a tall order. @ a typical us TAX rate, that's 160K a year.

Plus all the food looks to be twice what I would pay here.

WIA

Yeah it's an expensive city no doubt. The cost of getting a place ever more centrally-located rises exponentially.

If I didn't already have work and family here I probably wouldn't move here. It really comes down to your money - if you can make bank here, then you can leverage the city well. Or if you earn location independently then you can have some wild adventures here too.

(05-06-2016 01:42 PM)WestIndianArchie Wrote:  

(05-06-2016 01:36 PM)DimeBait Wrote:  WIA, if you haven't already, have you ever considered writing a book? I see all these lames out here capitalizing off of basic interpersonal behavioral skills, but not too many with advanced techniques. Would be nice to see more brothers getting a piece of the pie.

I been writing a book since the thread starters mentioned I should.

I've got too much material.

Organizing it all is bitch. But what I want to write is stuff for guys that have mastered the basics.

What guys actually need is the basics though.

When i launch a site, I'll let you guys know.

WIA

Would love to see a book/website from you.

Definitely do a basics book first. All your later material can then build on it. Otherwise people can't operate from the same mindset as you.

Plus there's always thing even advanced players can learn from someone else's ideas of the fundamentals.

Some guys are not fighting
Some guys are getting into scrapes here and there. One win and they're married.

Then you've got the guys who are training to just fight.
They hit hard, they get wins. But there's little finesse

To me, the game is Shaolin Kung Fu in the good old days when they had to defeat the Wu Tang Clan. It's suffused in everything, but it's not any one thing. You can fight, but have the mental clarity to write poetry, to see beyond.

Have y'all had any issues renting Airbnb in different countries?

WIA

@WIA,

I've used Airbnb from all throughout Europe from Scandinavia to Eastern Europe and the Balkans and have had no issues so far. However I can't speak for countries in other regions, but my experience has been that if you go with a host with good reviews, you will usually not have any issues. Airbnb is good money for some people so they definitely value their reviews as that provides a basic level of trust within the website; so I can imagine that they wouldn't do anything to damage their reputation.

(05-06-2016 07:49 AM)WestIndianArchie Wrote:  Not today