Too many anecdotes to count, but here goes one.
I get along very well with my landlord (which seems to be uncommon in Finland) and we sometimes meet. He has been attentive and even asked if my neighbors were respectful considering I am not Finnish or a white European.
One day him and his wife invited me for dinner and I mentioned I go shopping to Iso Omena later in the day. She said she goes only during the week, because in the weekend there are too many Middle-Easterns. When I looked at her surprised, she tried to fix it by saying that she has met many Middle-Easterns and she just doesn’t like them. (So does she not like me then?)
I don’t understand how she ever thought it was appropriate to say something racist in front of her immigrant tenant. Besides, she holds a pretty high up position in a government agency which is in charge of international collaboration.