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Moikka, I'm happy you've found a stable life. The thing is that subtle/implicit racism is quite difficult to pick up on. It involves not being:

* given the benefit of the doubt in difficult situations

* realizing how easy it is to socialize normally

* given a fair shake in a candidate pool

I, unfortunately, was a witness to many minorities not being given these benefits easily (not being one of them). Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink" explains the mechanisms of these implicit biases well, and unfortunately, they're much more evident in Finland than most American metropolitan cities. It's difficult to pick up on them and unless you realize the hurdles in front of you, you're just built to jump higher without giving it a second thought.