Biju Chacko wrote: [...]
OK, time for a quick, unscientific, politically-incorrect poll: How many brown people on this list have been hassled at security? How many white people on this list have been hassled at security? Those of you who can't fit yourself into one category or other: please go back to which ever planet you came from, we don't need no furriners here.
Are you trying to find out if racism exists? In my personal experience, it certainly does. What you get at an airport is a double whammy of racism conflated with xenophobia.
I've been searched a few times in the US even as rough looking white trash walked by unchecked. I've also seen white trash being given more than a cursory wand wave at Indian airports. I've been asked to produce my wallet full of US Dollars before I could shop in a store in Hong Kong. I've been told that I come from an uncivilized land by a US Immigration Officer. I've had a Taiwanese friend tell me she hates blacks. I've had a corn-fed blonde manager correct my grammatically-correct English because I am an 'Indian'(*).
Cheeni (*) Needless to say I didn't linger long in that organization
