[westopher]

Originally Posted by EvoFire

My experience has been utterly different.

2015, first night in Tours, France. We walked into a restaurant and the young server tried hard to help us with the menu. We didn't experience any racism. Tours isn't the boonies, but it's still slightly off the beaten path for typical Asian faces. We noted that except for one tour group at a very well known chateau we visited, there were practically zero Asians.

Same trip, first night in Paris after we returned, while on the train, some one approached us just to chat and made sure we knew where we were going.

Chatted with a Canadian (Toronto) while lining up for Versailles and he noted how lazy French ppl were (racism anyone?)

Same trip still, we walked into a random hole in the wall for some food, and a French guy tried to converse with us. We tried our best his English was poor my French is still at the grade 8 level. But otherwise friendly.


2018. We were in Munich and we coincided with some street festival. Again we were one of the few Asians just mulling about and people were friendly, no one was racist, at least no one showed it.

Nothing stood out throughout Germany as we did the Romantic Road up to Aachen from Munich. Perhaps it's more of a touristy section of Germany as there were quite a few Asian tour groups along the way. Some of the ppl were loud and brash and Mandarin and I did not like them either.

Nothing again stood out on our way back south to the French Riviera. We made the mistake of trying to find food during the afternoon siesta/break time and nothing was open. One bartender guy stayed for us and made us drinks despite not being able to serve food.

We were in Latte, Italy (tiny little town) getting my car washed and we were engaged by another French guy (rich af French guy) and we chatted through lunch there. He was showing us pictures of his kids.


If we want to talk about experience of racism, I've experienced more racism in rural BC and in Australia than I have in Europe. The Australian experience actually got physical as the guy got up to our faces and pushed me and my wife and I had to shove him back out of the way and told him to fuck off. Drew a lot of stares as I think typically Chinese ppl wouldn't retaliate and the guy walked off swearing.

Most aussies are the biggest pieces of shit according to my Aussie friends. They are upside down America where NZ is upside down Canada.