Re: CHAT: OFF: RANT: OFFENSIVE: TAN: CHAT: Re: Ebonic Christmas

"Gressett, David" wrote:

> Context is everything here.
Agreed.

> I have often had to endure a racism of another kind:
I think it is more precise to call this "race prejudice"
rather than "racism".

> One of them burst into a fantastically eager
> greeting, "Hey, how are you?" and offered to shake my hand. Not accustomed
> to total strangers greeting me like a king, I stood amazed and confused and
> barely managed to take his hand.
Sounds like a classic culture clash.

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