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Just be polite, don't be sarcastic or sass them, and have your paperwork together and I think you'll be okay.
The pacific northwest is weird when it comes to ethnicity and how they choose to accept diversity. There are a lot of diverse races that live here but the pressure to live to a "white" standard of behaviour is felt a lot more on a societal level than on the east coast. This extends to power structures also, so cops and border crossing guards here aren't what I'd call racist, but they have less tolerance for anything that isn't lily-white in terms of how to act.
Being from Vancouver, going to NY is always a breath of fresh air. Diversity gets to stay different there and I love that. In comparison Vancouver is almost like one of those science fiction novels where the men and the women have shaved heads and wear grey tracksuits.