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[quote=Anonymous]The Chinese thing is probably an unintentional assumption that is a micro-aggression. But hear this: I have a Korean colleague and a colleague that is white but lived in China for 25 years. They don't work together but met recently. The white colleague talks about their time in China all the time, having recently returned to the states. They started to tell a story to the Korean colleague and said something like "have you been?" or "do you speak Chinese?" which I happen to know he asks EVERYONE but if the Korean colleague took it as a microagression I'd understand (it absolutely was not). I don't see how this could be the case with your neighbor unless your neighbor has some connection to China and says this all the time.

As for the elevator, I'd let that go. Anytime I get on and it smells I assume it may be the previous/current person. In fact it happened in a hotel this weekend and my husband and I did a similar grimace, assuming it was the guy getting off. Another guy got on with us and I realize he may have thought we were grimacing about him. I do not recall the race of either guy but do know they were men. [/quote]

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