It does go deeper than getting charged 2, 3, 10 or even 100 times the normal prices. The Philippines (along with most of Asia) has a vary racist culture. There have been expats arrested just because they were white and fit the description of being white (coming from a child witness....who changed her description several times to fit the person they just happen to have in custody). It doesn't take much of an imagination to see the Philippines doing the very same thing that Thailand just did to blacks. There are some powerful racist voices even in Dumaguete who would love nothing more than to see each and every one of us locked up and/or deported. Right now they don't a popular opinion, but let that one wrong incident happen involving the wrong people and the majority will be going out on a witch hunt to look for someone to place the blame on. I won't name any names but we all know they are there. You don't have to search too hard in this forum to find examples of these racist personalities.
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