A little bit worried about coming to Mannheim.

I am a 22 year old exchange student from the UK who will be studying in Mannheim for the year 2024/2025. I have heard the news of the horrendous attack at the end of May.

I am not Muslim, but most people might assume I am based on my skin-colour, as my heritage is Pakistani (at least, that is the way it would work in the UK). I also want to say I have absolutely no sympathy or support for the man who carried out the attack. None.

The multicultural diversity of Mannheim was what drew my to it, and I want to be able to assimilate properly. I don’t want to blow things out of proportion, but it does worry me a bit, so I just wondering what people’s general attitude is in Mannheim, and whether attitudes have been affected. I understand people have become frustrated with the influx of migrants, and that’s an issue completely beyond my knowledge, but I worry about being lumped in with the extremists people are being frustrated by.

I was wondering what people’s thoughts on this are.