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I was treated extremely rudely for being American when I went to France in late 2003, and I totally understood why.

It seems too easy to say "uh discrimination is fine" when the only thing you have to fear is people being rude to you on vacation. If you face the loss of your livelihood, like the owner of a small Russian restaurant somewhat, I don't think you'd be as sanguine.

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I was spit on, had two of my hotel reservations cancelled, and was robbed

And you applaud this? How is this a good thing?

One would think that after going through this you would become more empathetic and understanding of the ordinary citizens side. But no, somehow the takeaway was that discrimination against innocent people based where they're from is OK

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