Latent racism

[desh]

So you walk into a dry cleaners or tailor that you've never used before. You're greeted by an Asian person with a thick accent.

[Poll #585314]

(Results are private. No one except for me will see how you voted, but anyone will be able to see the aggregated answers. Please answer honestly; I'm rather curious here.)

Comments

[conana.livejournal.com]

Somewhere between 2 and 5. I agree with other people that my ability to understand the accent is probably more an issue than eir being able to understand me. I think with dry cleaning I don't have any real bias, but with skilled labor like tailoring or cobbling, I tend to look for something to suggest proper kavanah, and I'm more likely to believe that of someone from some other culture.

[desh]

I love that you said both "eir" and "kavanah" in this comment, and it has me thinking about what a small cross-section of the population would use both words.

[toughgav.livejournal.com]

here here! ditto, that.