I was so humbled by Laura’s comment i couldn’t really reply

But I will respond to your point here, Scott, about looks, and just say i am a natirally non-paranoid confident person in any environment, but i definitely felt the difference when i lived in Norwich, England (unbearably white and older, except the university) – when i wore a wool cap, ppl thought i was European or Canadian. When i wore a veil showing clearly i was Muslim i got a totally different look from some ppl. I probably said that at some point, maybe even this blogpost… No time to look 🙂