Comparing the experiences I made while living in London to the ones I made on the Bavarian countryside, you might already imagine that they were significantly different. Actually, different is a good term here. When you look really different from everyone else and you live on the countryside, people will stare at you. And you can't even really blame them, they're just not used to someone having pink hair, wearing really extravagant clothes or having a different skin colour.
This is the complete opposite in London: there, you have to make a really, really big effort in order to catch people's attention with your looks. That's because London is a melting pot. People who live there are from so many different ethnic backgrounds, have different styles, different accents, different sexual orientations, different religions and just different life styles. They are so used to living among people who are different from each other, that they just don't care whether your hair is black or green, whether you wear make-up or you don't, or whether your skirt is 'too short' according to their standards. Of course, I'm talking in general terms here. It's not possible to say that noone in London will stare at you and everyone on the countryside will. But that's the general impression I got.
So it seems that the more differences there are among people in a community, the more used to it they will get, which manifests itself in a more open-minded point of few and less racism. They just live and let live, I guess.
(sources of pictures: http://www.timeout.com/london, http://keywordsuggest.org/gallery/556179.html)
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