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[quote=Anonymous][size=18] [/size][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am black and have travelled all over the world. Black people have very different experiences in terms of being welcomed.

Finland was definitely not welcoming. Turkey was wonderful.[/quote]

Unfortunately this.  I did a summer studying in the Netherlands.  I did fine in the Netherlands, my classmate/friend who was Asian American got a lot of weird comments.[/quote]

What do you think would happen in Asia?[/quote]

NP but the history of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia has cemented some permanently unpleasant attitudes towards Asian people in the Netherlands among *some* people. We have run into it and been startled by it.

On-topic, I found Austria to be deeply unfriendly toward visitors, and found the directness of the Dutch and the reserve of some Norwegians to be disorienting.

We are a mixed-race family with little kids, we have found southern Germany and Berlin to be very friendly and welcoming, as well as Denmark. As an Asian man, DH gets treated far better in France than I do as a white woman, which given French colonial history is an interesting contrast to my observations about the impact of Asian colonialism in the Netherlands. [/quote]

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