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Originally Posted by earthmamma
I wonder if you had said do coloured people kiss their teeth and say "wats up man" if it would have seemed quite as acceptable as the blatant discrimination about Germans?
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Maybe a better word is stereotyping, but yeah. I didn't see the empathizing grin and hug of good-natured teasing there. Perhaps he intended to say Austrian, re Freud?
And to respond to the post, I brought this up early in my therapy, defending my parents' dysfunctionality as typically Italian (as they had defended it to me), and my T set me straight.