Two quick anecdotes from Japan: The bank that I used for 15 years sent me a postcard saying that, because they guessed by my name that I'm a foreigner, they were required to have me travel X00 miles to the branch where I opened my account to present my papers in person for KYC.
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Questions: were your services suspended during this interim and at any point did you feel this procedure was unreasonable?
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They gave me N months to complete the procedure before suspension. My feelings regarding reasonability are complex: I accept that they may not have had discretion with regards to this request. "Foreigners are ipso facto high risk" is per se unreasonable.
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From here forward I’m going to call you Patorikku
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You’re lucky. My last name, Opdahl, is hard enough for non-Japanese to get right, and in Japan it becomes Opuda-ru. Or it’s supposed to. I once met a person after months of email exchanges and they expressed surprise that I didn’t look Middle Eastern. Somehow I became Abdul.
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Restaurant reservations often get booked as Iida. <shrug>
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Vc eh brasileiro??
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