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[quote=Anonymous]I won’t name the country but I had an experience where (in the same one week trip)—I was verbally sexually harassed and then physically assaulted in public and not a single woman or man came to my defense (and it was two different incidents)
— I was briefly detained because “my paperwork wasn’t in order” (it was but he said if I gave him $20 he’d overlook it)
— the lock on my hotel door didn’t work and when I complained they first said it didn’t matter and then finally switched me to a room with a broken toilet
— I got a stomach virus or food poisoning or something (which made the broken toilet an even great tragedy)
— my flight out was cancelled indefinitely and I ended up taking a bus to a different city to catch a flight

This was not a country I wanted to ever return to!  I think it was the sexual harassment that bothered me most.

In a funny follow up….i happened to remember the name of the embassy person I called at some point to ask for suggestions about the flight issue.  (He was nice but had no real suggestions.). That low level embassy staffer later became a tiny tiny bit infamous  for about 15 minutes, and when I read his name in the paper, I was like “I remember you!!!!”  
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