I probably should stop commenting on these forums. I meant Aussie housemates when I wrote white housemates. I didn't have any ill-intentions while writing it. My only intention was to share the common name of the plant!
In a large business building in New York City whenever I’d go down to the mail room there would be couriers and maintainence men hanging around. Each a different ethnicity and shade of color.
Most of the conversations I heard there were from them trading insults in friendly fashion. Most of the jokes were ethnic stereotypes.
It offered them a chance to connect with each other. Out of this play, tolerance is made over time.
You’ve now finally offered some clarification, although honestly I still don’t really have any idea what you meant. But your initial response was to act as if the very act of asking the question somehow victimized you. Your original post lamented “PC culture” but no one actually criticized your post and you didn’t provide the asked for clarification.
Sorry if I'm off-base… just my guess that this is a miscommunication stemming from the US-centricity of these forums. It's natural after all for a reader to put themself in the shoes of the writer (as did I on first reading of your comment), which can occasionally lead to misunderstandings when race, gender, etc. do not match.