Vivek Dahiya recently faced an unpleasant encounter with immigration officials at the Budapest airport while returning from a family holiday.Vivek and his wife Divyanka Tripathi were waiting in the queue to board the flight, the officials instead of following the rule gave them.
Vivek told a leading daily, “I have been traveling since I was 18 and have studied in the UK for seven years. Over the last 14 years, I’ve never faced such an issue. Budapest is the first city where I faced discrimination. There were a few small incidents in the first few days, but I shrugged them off thinking that they were either coincidences or the locals were not warm. However, I soon realized that they chose to behave in a certain way towards outsiders. The preferential treatment at the airport made it all the worse.”
He added, “And then when you return home, you realise that it’s no different here. We are obsessed with fair skin and give preference to Westerners over our own countrymen. Every country should treat tourists and their own citizens equally. Preferential treatment of any kind and on any basis shouldn’t be tolerated.”
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