..towards Americans, asians and Chinese in particular.
My buddy just got back from his honeymoon in Europe, and from what he told me, there is rampant racism towards chinese people, which he is. I can understand the dislike of Americans, but why asians...?
While he was in Spain, he said it was particularly bad. A lot of the young spaniards would walk behind him using rather profane language and they kept calling him a cockroach.
In the Netherlands, they would keep saying Fatwa as in holy war to him. Then when confronted, they'd say that theres no such word in dutch. They also seem to not like Japanese people, he was mistaken for a japanese more than a few times, they'd talk sh*t behind his back and deny anything when confronted, even though they had a dutch speaking friend w/ them. When they figured out he wasn't japanese, they'd rail on the fact that he's chinese and american.
From what it sounded like, FRANCE of all places was the most tolerent of the countries he went to. The harrassment was constant in the Spain and the Netherlands and when he got on the plane the dutch people in the row behind him were talking sh*t almost the entire flight to his xfer in New York.
So.. what's the deal. Im sure it doesn't mean that everyone is like that, but those living in those countries must know something that we dont hear in US newspapers and such.
My buddy just got back from his honeymoon in Europe, and from what he told me, there is rampant racism towards chinese people, which he is. I can understand the dislike of Americans, but why asians...?
While he was in Spain, he said it was particularly bad. A lot of the young spaniards would walk behind him using rather profane language and they kept calling him a cockroach.
In the Netherlands, they would keep saying Fatwa as in holy war to him. Then when confronted, they'd say that theres no such word in dutch. They also seem to not like Japanese people, he was mistaken for a japanese more than a few times, they'd talk sh*t behind his back and deny anything when confronted, even though they had a dutch speaking friend w/ them. When they figured out he wasn't japanese, they'd rail on the fact that he's chinese and american.
From what it sounded like, FRANCE of all places was the most tolerent of the countries he went to. The harrassment was constant in the Spain and the Netherlands and when he got on the plane the dutch people in the row behind him were talking sh*t almost the entire flight to his xfer in New York.
So.. what's the deal. Im sure it doesn't mean that everyone is like that, but those living in those countries must know something that we dont hear in US newspapers and such.