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Originally Posted by EvoFire
There is a look though. We did not look the part of the China tourist and I think that's what got us through, we were obviously tourists but not the hated kind. You look around Vancouver you can instantly pick out who's from China and not assimilating, who's born or grew up here, the new HK FOBs. They have a look to them. It's a subtle fashion thing, or the way they talk, or the way they hold themselves, you can tell.
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I guarantee you, regular Josef or Jacques Seis-pack does not know the distinction or give a shit. You're all just Chinois or Chinkies to them. Even if you're Vietnamese
Anyways I could write a whole novel on European racism. It's a lot less "polite" than American racism but for the most part less "threatening" if that makes sense. There will be a lot of microagressions but less so physical danger. I can't say for this is the case for some of the suburbs with large migrant populations it may be similar to walking into Compton at night.
Anyways having been to Europe over a dozen times a few things have stood out in my memory but for the most part we never really had major difficulties.
1. Chinky eyes pulled by one of those Restaurant touts in Barcelona when we had a gander at the outside menu. Told him in broken Spanish it was not cool and we left.
2. "Ching-Chonged" by another Restaurant tout in Greece. We told him to fuck off because he obviously could speak english fluently.
3. Got seated alone at a restaurant in Poland, was throughly ignored and just got up and left.
Tons of instances in rude service however couldn't really attribute it to being Asian or just being oblivious tourists