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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reason people are so upset these days is that [b]any acknowledgement of culture is considered racist. [/b]This also works in the other way-- any lack of acknowledgement is considered erasure and therefore racist. So it's impossible to live on a multicultural community without perceiving things as racist and being perceived as racist.

Who knows about the person who said xiexie. The OP gave no context clues so for all we know, it was a Chinese immigrant who spoke limited English and saw a similar face and made assumptions. Is that racist or... Normal?

I go to another country to visit family but I don't speak the language that well. Sometimes old people will stop me to ask for help, and I always listen intently to see if I can understand and help. Sometimes after they talk to me, I regrettably have to inform them that I don't speak the language well enough. Sometimes they laugh and act like this is hilarious because I look for all the world like I'm part of their culture. We're all white, so I can't call them racist. Nor would I. Because we are just people trying to relate to each other.

You can either be on guard to look for slights, or you can be open and look for community. I'm not saying that you should be naive about the existence of hate and racism.  But if you're constantly looking for it, just casually evaluating everyone as potential racists, you will spend much of your life offended. [/quote]

It’s not the acknowledgment—it’s the assumption. If you can’t tell the difference between Asian nationalities, maybe shut your ignorant mouth? Truly, you embarrass yourself.[/quote]

Oh for Pete's sake. I have been asked if I'm a different brand of white than I am. I freak out and tell them that they are racist for not being able to distinguish Slavic and Scandinavian phenotypes. And if I had, they would have rightly called me a nut job.

When southerners say y'all, do you snap back that they are in "you guys" land? Get a grip.  [/quote]

If you don’t see how your situation is different from that of a racial minority, I don’t know what to tell you. [/quote]

Sorry, you're not special. Sometimes in the elevator you might get the look if the people getting on after think it was you who farted. They don't care what percentage of the demographic you are.[/quote]

No. I’m not special—I’m white. But someone calling out my whiteness affects me not one jot, because white is the predominant race here in the US. Calling out someone’s minority status is not only racist, it’s rude. Do you also say  Shalom to people you think are Jewish? If so, please stop.[/quote]

Hilarious! Actually people say Shalom to me all the time because I have an ambiguous last name but am not Jewish. Never cared one time. [/quote]

If that is true, it’s super weird and you live among some very socially awkward people, at best.[/quote]

Newsflash: people are weird. All the time. Are you brand new?[/quote]

Are they all weird in racially inappropriate ways? [/quote]

Were you born yesterday? Lock your doors at night?[/quote]

You sure do ask a lot of irrelevant questions. I’m concerned you’re under the mistaken impression it makes you look intelligent or worldly.[/quote]

So you have no reasonable response. Just here to complain.[/quote]

Do you really want a response to the following idiotic questions:

1. Are you brand new?
2. Were you born yesterday?
3. Lock your doors at night? (This is a sentence fragment, fyi)

I assume these are all rhetorical questions through which you hope to make me feel stupid, but it’s not working, because it’s such weak sauce. [/quote]

Funny how you reject answering questions and then just ask your own questions.[/quote]

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