Any POC receive better treatment abroad than at home?
I lurk here a lot, and have noticed a decent amount of threads about POC experiencing horror stories with racism while abroad. Weirdly enough though -- I've actually noticed that I receive better treatment abroad than in the US.
I'm an Asian-American male, and I've traveled to a lot of places in Europe as well as the middle east. I'm a social person so I don't really have trouble making friends in the US, but it seems that people are a lot more interested in getting to know me when I'm abroad. In the US when I'm at a bar or social event I generally feel like I have to "prove myself" socially before people warm up to me. On the other hand when I'm abroad people are generally a lot friendlier to me from the start, and I've had multiple instances where locals I literally just met invited me to hang out with them and their friends. Not to mention, I get WAY more attention from girls when I'm abroad, it's like night and day compared to in the US.
Anyone else here relate?
Submitted March 08, 2019 at 08:03PM by soloingtime https://ift.tt/2NRhHQX
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