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Old 02-21-2013, 12:07 PM   #77
Erick Estrada
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Originally Posted by _Q_ View Post
Maybe I should have clarified. I'm Arab, so I find it ignorant when someone uses a brown stereotype against me (curry or cab driver jokes). You eating a lot of pasta just means they're making fun of your Italian heritage which I wouldn't find offensive. If I were to for example make fun of how you probably eat a lot of perogies and used a bunch of Eastern European jokes against you (assuming you're not half Polish or something), would that type of stupidity not piss you off?
Absolutely not. If they don't know the difference between Italian and Polish why should that make me angry? I'm defined by the person I am not my heritage. There are too many races in the world for the average person to keep track. I know I can't.
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