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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Visited canada a few days ago.

I thought that the people would be super nice, in my experience they don't. People working in tourism are super friendly but we felt that the people are super harsh with tourists.

We even had a group of kids saying out loud "I don't like people with big backpacks" (And no my backpack was not touching them or on a seat) or a security officer saying that he does not work on the information department so he was not helping us.

I have family there and I got to meet some incredible people but I felt that they were super hash sometimes.

Also Canada is beautiful!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually experiencing racism in Japan.

If you're a white dude in a white country, you don't have any idea what it's like. My incident was super minor (being denied access to a restaurant) but it gave me a teeny peek into what life must be like for some people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It was the first time that I've experience this kind of comments. I'm a tallish white male and I was confused as Canadian sometimes during this trip

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