I live in Greece,my parents are from Ghana.We are Pentecostals (The fastest growing religion in Sub-Saharan Africa, Carribean (Haiti, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Tribango etc), Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, Guyana, Souriname etc) is pentecostalism,look the religion map of Africa here: https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Religion_distribution_Africa_crop.png).
I plan to visit Cyprus for Summer.My question is:how Greek and Turkish Cypriots see Africans? Is there any racism or i will have no problem?
8 comments
There is not so many african immigrants as in eu, so attitude is somewhat neutral
No man no racism. Sure some ppl will stereotype like everywhere but Cypriots are pretty friendly.
I don’t know about pentecostals being a religion. It’s basically what Americans call Evangelical Christians. Nigerian here. Lived in Cyprus for 4 years a long time ago. Your experience now should be a whole lot better than mine when Cyprus hadn’t joined the EU. Nice island if you are a tourist. Planning to relocate there permanently? I don’t know how welcoming they’re now but there’s a black Trinidadian girl who has a YouTube channel from her base somewhere in the West of Cyprus not far from Paphos. Check her out for her experiences
I saw one black girl operating a kiosk in the mall and there were Japanese tourists taking photos of her, as she was a rare specimen, an exotic encounter.
As long as you are not running some bitcoin investment scam scheme in a hotel in kyrenia you will be ok
Let me ramble on about my religion and then pretend to ask a question so that my post doesn’t get removed.
Edit: I forgot to mention that this guy sent me a PM saying how great his religion is. Good on you bud. However, I’m not interested.
I am very new to the island but my first impression is there is no stigma on people from Africa. But it feels there is a tension towards people from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and that region in general. But still, people in Cyprus are extremely friendly. Recently my cat ran away from the apartment and the neighborhood helped me to search for the cat just because they are nice people
If tinder is any reliable source, African girls are popular in north Cyprus, fun to be with, 22-25 (or claiming to be so) and ready for hook ups.
They do not want anything to do with the south or men from there..