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I faced same problem in Canada. Vietnamese owner refused to rent me a place citing he does not allow Indian tenants because they are smelly.
by ankittyagi 4y ago
I faced same problem in Canada. Vietnamese owner refused to rent me a place citing he does not allow Indian tenants because they are smelly.
- JumpCrisscross 4y agoYou have various legal remedies in Canada which do not exist, in practice, in Singapore.
- tomrod 4y agoWow this really hits me -- racism is a bad choice function (in the stats/ML sense). The landlord doesn't want "smelly" people, and their experience is "If SMELLY then INDIAN." But that's going to have a huge false positive rate. And SMELLY is not an attribute of INDIAN, so the false negative rate is also going to be huge. JFC, that's awful and I'm sorry that happened to you.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoI think it is more “If Indian, then x% likelier than average to cause $y in expenses due to odor issues”. And of course, they would not have to make this exclusive to Indians.