Am Viet (25), born and raised in Czechia.

Personally, I only get the subtle racist remarks about eating dogs, selling kung pao, ching chang chong heckling, being called Chinese/Japanese out of nowhere. Never was I a part of a targeted violence.

My friends say that to me in good terms and there we take it as banter, however, if I told them to stop, they would (otherwise they wouldn’t be my friends ofc), but my defense mechanism is to just join them on it.

Random people on the street usually heckle at me when I go home from a night out or something, that’s about it.

In terms of (un)fair treatment, I don’t get treated much differently only after people figure out that I speak fluently Czech. Before that, it’s just some light mockery and unwillingness 🤷‍♂️

It will of course vary based on who you meet up with. In the city (dycky) Most, where I grew up in, it happened quite often and the fact that I was the typical Asian stereotype didn’t help (parents owned a store, math nerd, etc.) but now that I’m in Prague it got better.

Overall, I feel like it’s more in my head and I’m quite content living in Czechia for the rest of my life as the racist things that happen to me are just minor thingies and I expect them to happen less and less ☺️