Even then, it is quite likely that people offer you a ton of leeway still. It's only in comparison to your previous style that you see the reduction. A friend

Even then, it is quite likely that people offer you a ton of leeway still. It's only in comparison to your previous style that you see the reduction. A friend of mine is considered white in the country he was born in (Guyana) and black in the country he's in now (Canada), and despite being always extremely well groomed and styled, he still ends up being very very clearly followed by security whenever he goes shopping. In comparison I've been to those places while looking more than scruffy, not showered, etc.. and have received nods and smiles from the security in every one of those places. Sometimes it's even happening simultaneously: if we enter separately only one of us gets followed. And this is downtown Toronto, one of the supposedly most diverse cities on Earth.