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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. It happens often enough to recall though I will say I never thought until I saw these responses that it could be a racial response. I didn’t notice until I began to think of examples of when it happened. I am not Caucasian and I never receive it from my minority group or other minority groups that I can think of but do receive it often from men and women who are Caucasian. I’ve gotten this response when asking for directions, when asking how far a city is from where I was, etc…

Those recent examples were when I was shopping and planning to return to decide on an item I asked the store hours and when the salesperson would be working again and then when I asked how far a town was from the one I was in at the time.[/quote]

Why would you ask when the salesperson works again in order to return something? Sounds stalkerish. The other items (store hours, distance from your city) are easily available on the internet. Try not to be so needy, it’s probably putting people off. [/quote]

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