Have you ever been discriminated against?

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I am from the Philippines. On my way here to the United States, our plane had to stop over to Japan and from there, a few of us had to take a connecting flight to Detriot. I had to go through the usual security inspection after we alighted the plane. And from there, walk through the gate where my connecting flight was supposed to take off. But suddenly, before going in the plane, a man stopped me and asked me questions about my flight. I was so surprised to have been questioned. He asked me many things which as far as I'm concerned, was none of their business . And after that, a lady asked me to step over the side. She asked me to remove my jacket and shoes, had a metal detector over my body, inspected my bags and asked me questions. She was a bit polite nevertheless. It took me a while to enter the plane again. I tried to be calm, but I did not help but ask myself, 'what I do?' I kind of got into my senses after. I did try to observe, and felt I was discriminated against because no one among my group was questioned or had been asked to go through that rigorous inspection, except me. Or at least from among the group which I was with when I was about to enter the plane. I asked a few friends if what happened to me was SOP. They told me that they pick people randomly for inspection. But what was sad was when one told me that most probably, I was picked because I was the lone Filipino in the group at that time. Oh well, what a classic case of discrimination.