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@VanUden
Point of order, chap. If you've spent most/much of your life in England then those who've spent their entire lives in the caribbean will quite probably single you out as 'English'. Even if you were born in the carib.
I don't think morroccanish is being racist at all. He's talking about observations from personal experience. I don't see anything wrong with adding someone's ethnicity into an anecdote if it helps build a picture or is in some way relevant. If you're adding their ethnicity in to make the point that all people of the same race are stupid/ugly/violent/whatever then sure you're being a bit of a racist cock-monkey.
My surname is Dutch Jewish and I once had a bank teller refuse to serve me in Berlin because of this, do I win a prize?
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