Originally Posted by
SeriouslyLost
Perhaps I am unlucky. Or perhaps it's the multiple passports I travel on. Or perhaps it's because I only allow up to a certain level of questions before I tell them to sod off. Could be all sorts of things. I imagine it varies as much as any other thing when it comes to the individuals involved, but I do find it peculiar that I only ever have problems in the US and with US CBP and TSA. But hey, as CBP said to me very recently, "[I'm] not a real American."
Forget American, sometimes the CBP professes to understand other cultures too. My friend who is South Asian was asked why he had a Mexican surname (Rodrigues). I had no idea that Mexico had exclusive use of that last name seeing that the Portuguese and Spanish went all over the world and people for several countries have that last name.
And if some of the posters here think the CBP treats Americans poorly, try it with any other citizenship, it is several degrees worse. Again I stress that a majority of CBP officers are professional (not always friendly but at least professional) but there seems to be a minority that is running amok.