ethnic profiling also hits home...
yesterday i found the most rad present EVER for my super hip husband geoff. (who it feels like i haven't seen for MONTHS) it was a black t-shirt with this rad panther jumping from behind hebrew letters that said "black panthers." the shop keepers refused to let me buy it because i was american. in fact, it was worse than that. they all fled the store and went upstairs and just yelled at me from up there. after making me wait 15 minutes. it was the most passive aggressive ethnocentrism i've ever seen. WTF? i thought we were allies?
everyone seems to be *aghast* saying things like this "never" happen in super progressive, hip tel aviv. guess there are just jerks everywhere.
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Israel is known for many great things: diverse nature, archeology, beautiful people, great food, technology
But one thing its not known fo r is customer service- Israel is a typical Mediterranean / hot climate country and has terrible customer service and people can be very harsh
Posted by: ganon | April 16, 2008 at 09:41 AM