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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll bite, and hope that you are not one of the many trolls on this forum that doesn't like South Asian people.

I am a South Asian woman (but my husband is not South Asian and most of my friends are not).  Regardless, I've never had this problem with South Asian people of my generation (I assume you mean you are first generation - your parents immigrated from India?  If you are second generation, it would be your grandparents).

Were the people you were with from India/Pakistan, or did they grow up here?  The lack of familiarity with other races could contribute to their racist comments (that is not to say I am justifying their behavior, but an observation based on other from-India-Indians that I have met).  If they are first generation (the children of immigrants), then no, I've never experienced this among my friends or relatives and you just got stuck with a bunch of racist assholes that you should avoid in the future.

And also, so what if you didn't really know them? You should have spoken up.  [/quote]

OP Here. I am not a troll. This experience actually happened and DH and I were both surprised that this kind of behavior was tolerated in a group.  Fortuantely our children are not old enough to understand the conversation but there were older elementary school age children that were in the room and could have easily heard what was being said.  To answer the question above these were first generation.  I will be more specific and say that they all had a very common south asian last name that began with P and grew up in New Jersey. The K word was being used over and over again.   [/quote]

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