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It's not hype, it's real. I have had my Korean date get pulled out of a nightclub in Vietnam because they said they don't allow locals. When we said she was not

by mahmud 17y ago

It's not hype, it's real. I have had my Korean date get pulled out of a nightclub in Vietnam because they said they don't allow locals. When we said she was not Vietnamese (she didn't even understand English, much less Vietnamese) the brown-shirts started demanding a foreign ID, which she carried with her, but the whole experience was too sickening for us to stay in and we left. It gets ridiculous in the hospitality industry. In some fancy hotels in the middle-east, you will be harassed if you don't look sharp/rich, except if you come in wearing nothing but a towel and swimming trunks :-) I used to stay at friends' houses and everyday go swimming in the fancy 6-star hotel for free; I pushed my luck repeatedly, sometimes carrying with me water-pistols and pool toys. No problem, because no sane "arab" would be seen in speedos. The sad thing is that their pools go unused for the whole year, they're just expensive water tanks for display. If I walked in dressed in my normal clothes, I would be harassed, asked for a foreign passport, and told to put down a credit card number .. depending on how expensive the car I came in was. But when I flash my junk and my hairy back, I get free complimentary cocktails, pool-side, uncarded.

byrneseyeview 17y ago
It's not hype, it's real. You're all over this thread, talking about how big a problem it is. Have you considered the possibility that you grossly exaggerate the issue? Maybe people are hateful racists, maybe they're just trying to make money. In the long run, greed pays the rent and racism doesn't, so you have nothing to be upset about except the timing.
- mahmud 17y ago
  Quite the contrary, I find it fun to reverse-engineer silly corporate profiling. (Gee, I just told HN how to get free pool admission :-) It probably got to me because I have traveled extensively and came up against these little schemes left and right. Greed pays their rent, but it's not my responsibility to just accept that and let them have their way. Someone at Haagen-Dasz is gonna see the internet echo-chamber that their homeboy in Delhi has caused, and I promise you his little sign will be down in 24 hours, and on the menu might be new flavors named after Gandhi, Nehru and Ambedkar gee.

by mahmud 17y ago

byrneseyeview 17y ago

It's not hype, it's real. You're all over this thread, talking about how big a problem it is. Have you considered the possibility that you grossly exaggerate the issue? Maybe people are hateful racists, maybe they're just trying to make money. In the long run, greed pays the rent and racism doesn't, so you have nothing to be upset about except the timing.

mahmud 17y ago
Quite the contrary, I find it fun to reverse-engineer silly corporate profiling. (Gee, I just told HN how to get free pool admission :-) It probably got to me because I have traveled extensively and came up against these little schemes left and right. Greed pays their rent, but it's not my responsibility to just accept that and let them have their way. Someone at Haagen-Dasz is gonna see the internet echo-chamber that their homeboy in Delhi has caused, and I promise you his little sign will be down in 24 hours, and on the menu might be new flavors named after Gandhi, Nehru and Ambedkar gee.