I am a black guy who loves to travel, but I am getting a bit tired of always being stopped and questioned at airports.
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I am a young black man who was born and raised in Denmark. I got a Danish passport, a Danish upbringing and I speak Danish like a native born and raised in Copenhagen. I am used to travel on my own with my backpack, and doing what I want to do, and being stopped at airports kinda takes away from that feeling. I have travelled to a lot of countries including Egypt, South Africa, Thailand, Brazil and Morocco, and I never had any issues. But lately, I have been stopped at airports for ”immigration questions”. It has happened to me multiple times this year, and it is getting tiresome. Whenever I talk to my fellow white travelers about it, they have never experienced anything like it. They usually get their stamp and then leave, no questions asked. Whenever I get my stamp and want to leave, I get stopped, and they have to ask me questions to check my ”story”. I have been stopped in the US, the UK, France and recently Spain. I am not sure if it is just because of my race, but one thing that might be causing it are my lack of stamps. Because I am a Danish citizen, I don’t get stamps when I travel in Europe. And I have also used a second passport because my first passport was full. But this shouldn’t be a problem because it is a real passport, and I have nothing to hide. But it is just very tiresome. I don’t want to feel like a criminal or a suspect just because of my race. I hope it is not that, but it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth having to answer all these questions whenever I want to travel to Europe or the US.
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