Hi I'm Vietnamese- American, born and raised in New York. I am proud to be an American and I never try to hide the fact that I am one. I am also very proud to be Vietnamese and I know that the first thing people see will be the Asian not the American side of me. I will be traveling to Prague then to Brno this October and am curious to know more about what I've heard from my Asian friends who have been there before. Anything to worry about? Anything bad to expect?Please help!

I am Chinese and went to Prague by myself two months ago. I did not feel self-conscious about my Asian-ness. And believe it or not, there are many Chinese/Vietnamese/Thai restaurants there. They just lump the cuisine together and call it a Chinese restaurant. Although it is not a HUGE population like in the U.S., I was still actually surprised to see so many Asians there. Don't worry, it's fine!

I would say that you will have 0 problems, why whats wrong with the Vietnamese ?!, I would be more concerned going around saying I was American with all the terrible wars Bush is getting involved in

If you're so proud why are you worried?

To: xxx<BR>We are all in one way or another proud of who we are but in certain circumstances we do not have the power to control how others feel about us. I never said that I was worried but perhaps you read it like that. I'm just generally curious and if necessary want to be as cautious as possible.<BR>

In a reverse kind of way to noproblem, if you don't look really american they might take you as an Asian immigrant and treat you differently and like a second class citizen. i found when i was in prague (10 yrs ago) that locals were treated very differently--paid cheaper prices etc, which i understand given the money they made back then.

When trying to explain and categorize the people of the Czech Republic (as if any people can truly be categorized) we found them to be neither rich nor poor, very matter-of-fact, polite but not obsequious (sp?) and in general more like the Dutch than any other nationality group we've encountered. On that basis I'd expect them to be not only tolerant but unconcerned with your nationality or origin. We're American and Latvian and certainly found ourselves more interested in them than they seemed to be in us--and I thought of that as a good thing.