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...it's a strange amalgamation then...

I've been accused of racism and xenophobia so many times I've lost count....
Which is strange if you consider I've lived 30 out my 50 years on this planet as a racial minority on other countries than my own..

I have to go and keep asking my Asian g/f if she thinks so.
I've even emailed my black ex... she was African.
My own experience tells me that people who use those words tend not to have much experience of life...

...Although when I lived in hong kong, I was on the receiving end of racism - daily. It would be seen as racism, but it wasn't - in the definition of western terms..
To understand it, you have to live in the culture for a wile..
Not nice... but you get on with things.