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Originally Posted by IsiliRunite
What I'm trying to say is...
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I do understand what you're saying and agree overall. I'm basically just adding my own personal opinion that I find this level of ignorance to be inexcusable in today's global society.
I think the only idea I would slightly challenge in what you wrote is that, multiple times, I've seen Spanish people get extremely offended here in the States if someone mistook them for Mexican, and they've done it in an alarmingly superior way ("alarming" because one of them is a friend of mine, and I didn't expect it
). So I'm not certain that it's quite
as motivated by innocent ignorance as you were saying, but it is clearly rooted in ignorance.
Honestly, I'm still hoping Sanblaster will follow up with his thoughts so that I can get a little more understanding from someone who might have more direct knowledge about the attitudes behind this.