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Originally Posted by Sowa
He made the comment based on the color of the guy's skin. He assumed he was a foreigner based on his race and made a degrading remark. That is racism. One of the definitions of racism is prejudice based on race. The old man made an unreasonable assumption based on some preconveived notion he had of the OPs race.
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You want to label the guy prejudice, fine by me, but like most things there are more than one element in the definition of words. To me, being prejudice does not mean racist.
To me racist is when someone discriminates against another based on their race, meaning they are violent toward or oppress another person based on race.
I totally understand that had the guy not been brown or black or yellow or purple AND the old man never heard a different language or accent, then he probably wouldn't have said anything.
IMO that comment is not racist. People need to have thicker skin. Not saying that they shouldn't have told the old buzzard to go F-himself.