Racism in Costa Rica

...doesn't happen cybergal . Happens in Asia but in my experience mostly as a prelim to some sort of scam...

I'm a 31-year-old disabled combat veteran from the United States who just moved to Costa Rica about 5 weeks ago, and I have had more people spit at me, yell at me, and call me awful names than I would have believed possible.
Yes, I am white. Yes, I shave my head--because it is comfortable, and I'm balding anyway. But I see many hispanic people with shaved heads here, and I've never seen anyone treat them the same way I've been treated.
Before I moved to San Pedro, I was encouraged by all the stories online about how tolerant and nice everyone here is--and many people ARE very nice--but to say that racism against white people is not a problem here is just an outright lie.
I always treat people with kindness and respect--that is how I was raised, and it's how I've always been towards everyone I meet. But the (several) people who have spit at me and yelled obscenities at me never had any reason to--I wasn't in a conversation with any of them, nor had I even LOOKED at them before these events took place.
Costa Rica DOES have a racism problem, and one more flagrant, open, and completely unapologetic than ANYTHING I've EVER seen in the United States, and to pretend it doesn't exist is like pretending like racism doesn't exist in the U.S., either.
Since members of all races deserve to be judged "based not on the color of their skin but by the content of their character," and since I, personally, have never done anything racist to anyone, I think that this is obviously a problem.
I think this is especially true since if the word got out in the U.S. that white people might face racism here, the tourists would stop coming, and anyone with any knowledge of Costa Rica's economy should know that such an occurrence would be disastrous for this country, including the good, tolerant citizens who aren't racist.
So any Ticos or Ticas reading this should probably ask themselves, "What would happen if all the tourists left tomorrow? How many people would lose their jobs, including taxistas, hotel staff, etc. etc. etc.? How would that affect theft in the country?"
I guess I don't expect anyone to take me seriously--why would they?--but now I feel like I've done my part by warning people of the consequences of racism in Costa Rica, so no tengo ninguna obligacion

Edited by: elcastorsonando

Thats a tough post and you have to call it as you see it. One question, you say you've just moved to Costa Rica. Surely you spent some time experiencing the country before you moved there?...how were those experiences and what areas are we talking about?