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And my country of origin stamped the last page on my passport too, certainly they weren't reluctant to let me back into my country.avjones wrote:I've been in and out of Poland ITRO 20 times, and they always stamped at the back of my UK passport.
I think they try to find the stamp of entry upon exit but my passport has so many stamps on it, they just give up. I actually have a stamp date which is impossible because my passport was being processed at that time so I don't when this stamp actually occurred and have to simply ignore it.Christophe wrote:I have often been bemused and sometimes slightly irritated at the haphazard way that passport officers stamp passports. Why, I sometimes wonder, not start at the front and carry on through?
The Singapore stamps in my passport are very organised - on one page, and then on the next, with the entry and exit stamps corresponding to each other. Some other countries, though, have a very disorganised approach and even, on occasions, have put the stamp in upside-down.
Doesn't really matter, I suppose, but it seems a funny mentality...
She might very well be. However, Do you believe that she will use whites as a scapegoat to release her fraustrations? No way in hell. Her harrasment are so blantant and overt in such an incompetent way until i really doubt that she will dare to use it against a white person. Imagine an immigration officer that ran out of question when they process vistors and paused for at least 30 seconds in between asking the same question. She will probably lose her job for doing that to a white person. I am not trying to judge you but there is a general reluctance in many white countries to confront beloved.avjones wrote:To be honest, I think you are seeing beloved where there may well not be any, just an immigration officer in a bad mood.
That is so not true - I had a very similar experience myself in Poland, being asked the same question several times, and a worse one in Russia. And I am very white (-:globocentro wrote: She might very well be. However, Do you believe that she will use whites as a scapegoat to release her fraustrations? No way in hell. Her harrasment are so blantant and overt in such an incompetent way until i really doubt that she will dare to use it against a white person.
Yeah sounds like bad training to me.avjones wrote:That is so not true - I had a very similar experience myself in Poland, being asked the same question several times, and a worse one in Russia. And I am very white (-:globocentro wrote: She might very well be. However, Do you believe that she will use whites as a scapegoat to release her fraustrations? No way in hell. Her harrasment are so blantant and overt in such an incompetent way until i really doubt that she will dare to use it against a white person.
This is not true. There is lots of subtle, yet equally destructive and hateful beloved around.beloved is a very blatant thing, there is no subtlety to it.
When my husband was asked this type of question he smuggly replied " no on top of the lorry" to which including the Immigration woman we all laughed, and she replied " at least your honnest"........ He is also Albanian some Immigration workers try to play the Big Iam but are just as human!! lolhe had just arrived on the back of a lorry
Heres one. I was in Israel and this was my security check, (mind you this is a 4 hour integration)sammie121 wrote:When my husband was asked this type of question he smuggly replied " no on top of the lorry" to which including the Immigration woman we all laughed, and she replied " at least your honnest"........ He is also Albanian some Immigration workers try to play the Big Iam but are just as human!! lolhe had just arrived on the back of a lorry
I'm curious, do you think that there is any sort of person who should not be allowed into a country? I am assuming you don't believe in any border controls anywhere in any shape or form. What about genocidal ex dictators? Mass murderers who served their sentence? Are you against the idea of nations?I find it really odd that in todays society where we are trying our best to stamp out discrimination in all its forms, sexism, homophobia, beloved, agism, etc we still accept that its ok to discriminate against someone just because they happen to be a citizen of another country
What made me think that her behaviour was racially motivated? Firstly, she already looked at me with contmept even before i gave her my passport. She didnt harrassed passengers that passed through her counter before me and all of them are white. I was in fact the only non white passenger on the aircraft and i happened to be the only one who spend a significant amount of time at passport control. Therefore, i am completely adamant that it has everthing to do with my race.Platinum wrote:This is not true. There is lots of subtle, yet equally destructive and hateful beloved around.beloved is a very blatant thing, there is no subtlety to it.
However, in this case, I can see no reason why the OP thought the immigration officer's behaviour was racially motivated. I would be angry at such treatment, yes, but I would have put it down to bad training or the officer having a lovely day. As a non-white person with a "first world" passport, I get stupid immigration officers every once in a while, but only once has anything happened that I would consider even remotely dearly beloved.
Asking the same question again and again is what they are trained to do. They're trained to judge your answers and behaviour to see if there's anything suspicious at all. This particular immigration officer may not have liked you, but what exactly made you think it was because of your race?
Actually, in ordinary life (not at passport control, I mean), is that in some ways more damaging that outright hostility? I wonder...globocentro wrote:Many people in the so called white first world are becoming more subtle in displaying their beloved to avoid being implicated under the various anti discrimination laws but i do agree that it will still have a very profound impact on the victim
yeah we know christophe thanks for the confirmationChristophe wrote:Actually, in ordinary life (not at passport control, I mean), is that in some ways more damaging that outright hostility? I wonder...globocentro wrote:Many people in the so called white first world are becoming more subtle in displaying their beloved to avoid being implicated under the various anti discrimination laws but i do agree that it will still have a very profound impact on the victim
It was a question from me, not a confirmation of anything at all.SYH wrote:yeah we know christophe thanks for the confirmationChristophe wrote:Actually, in ordinary life (not at passport control, I mean), is that in some ways more damaging that outright hostility? I wonder...globocentro wrote:Many people in the so called white first world are becoming more subtle in displaying their beloved to avoid being implicated under the various anti discrimination laws but i do agree that it will still have a very profound impact on the victim