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Thanks mate. You've to be too careful these days I reckon. My housemates and I had loads of fun calling each other names. They would call me curry muncher and I called them unseasoned chicken wings and we laughed it off. I don't see any problem there. They've helped me whenever I need anything and I'd do the same for them. I think that matters more than any of these new age safe space thing. But I guess not everyone has thick skin! Cheers, dude.

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Good humor about it is a mark of ‘cosmopolitanism.‘

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.

Well compared to most, Americans are uniquely afraid about making even innocuous racial references, let alone racial banter or joking around between friends. So expect a lot of that since this forum is mostly populated by Americans.

The drama here is not from people asking for clarification. It’s from the people who are somehow bothered by people asking for clarification.

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.

Yes, true. I didn't understand it as well. that's why I deleted it.

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