Hello Everybody, <BR>I was planning on going to Italy in March. With the Sept 11 events I am worried if there is a lot of discrimination against foreign travelers in Italy (especially asians). Your honest answers and travelling tips are greatly appreciated. Thank you.

No, you should not have any problems at all. There are tons of asians visiting Italy, and many Japanese with lots of $$$ so I'm sure you will be treated with great smiles from retailers. My hubby is asian too, and we had a lovely time.

MY wife(asian) and myself just returned from a 21 day visit all over italy. It was remarkable and absolutely NO issues what so ever. Everyone is friendly and you feel secure as ever. It was also a pleasure not to be reminded about the events going on in the world. You will enjoy as we did and we visited all major cities. Rome,Venice,Florence etc.Also the security at the airports is fine and there they do some random checking on folks who look Questionable but I was ok with that. <BR>

Maybe I'm reading something into this question. There are Asians and there are Asians. I'm sure that Japanese would not meet with any unusual discrimination, but what about Asian muslims in traditional dress? Was this your concern, traveller?

Patrick, I think you are right in the fact that Asian is a very broad term. So a Japanese person would be looked differently then a traditional Middle Eastern Muslim. So my question was more towards Indians ; although resident of USA. Thank you for your response again