Same for me. I have an extremely common first name and if you just ear me on the phone with my native French (or English with French accentI've been asked about my ethnicity a few times, but it was more out of curiosity than exclusion. If your name is Michael and you don't speak with an accent, then you could be white/black/latino/Asian until you produce a photo ID or show up at the door.
However after COVID somehow when I began to work here I've always been asked about where my perfect level of French comes from ... Well because I'm French ...
Maybe it's more common or understandable that a visible minority person speaks French québécois whereas ones who speaks France French is weird?
Maybe lot of unconscious bias going here ...
Well truth is there are bad persons whatever the ethnicity. Such screening methods will reject potential good clients but there is no perfect way of doing it efficiently.As a non-white person, race-restrictions bother me at a personal level. I find it absurd that I could be excluded in spite of respecting all the meeting etiquettes of a provider but a white client can pass the filter simply by being white, even though he might not be a gentleman. I'm curious to know how often is it that a black or brown person would write a decent intro by text/email, pay the security deposit, then show up at the door and start haggling and abusing the woman. You would think that a lowballer would be abusive from the first contact!





