From $1930$ to $1932,$ LaPiere traveled extensively throughout the U$.$S$.$ and Canada with a young Chinese student and the student s wife. They visited $67$ hotels and $184$ restaurants, usually with the Chinese man making the arrangements with the hotel or asking for a table at the restaurant. Only once were they refused service $($at a hotel$),$ and typically they were received in a perfectly reasonable manner. Interestingly, the one time they were refused, the owner of the establishment saw the Chinese couple and said $"$No$,$ I don t take Japs!" LaPiere then surveyed the very hotels and restaurants they had visited. The survey included questions which directly asked whether the establishments would serve members of various ethnic groups $($remember$,$ discrimination was legal then$).$ The reply was an unequivocal $"$No$"$ from over $90$ percent of the businesses which responded, and the rest said it would depend on the circumstances.