Now, back to serious stuff. I can completely relate to what you wrote about. We can’t judge the nation or race based on certain incidents. I’ve recently experienced this prejudice against people with different colour myself.

I’m Caucasian, but I’m very mixed, with dark wavy hair and brown eyes. Greek people think I’m Greek, Iranians think I’m Persian, Spanish people think I’m one of them, but most people say that I just look different. When checking in at the Vancouver airport, back home from my business trip, I was standing in line, waiting for my turn to show my passport and go home. There was an old Iranian couple in front of me. They didn’t speak a word in English and couldn’t understand what that customs lady is screaming at them about. She was asking them, “Where are you coming from?”. Couldn’t she see that from their passports? That poor Iranian woman came running to me, asking for help. I apologized in English, saying that I don’t speak Farsi. The lady officer was yelling at her – “where did you go, come back here, come back”. Finally she let them go.

Then it was my turn, and I had to pay the price for looking different. The customs lady was interrogating me for 5 min – where I’m coming from, why did I go to Europe, what’s the name of the company I’m working for in Vancouver, where do I live, and so on. Afterwards I asked my colleague (who’s blond), was she asked so many questions too. No, she answered, she just showed her passport and was let go.