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My response is mostly a joke anyway. But how's their originally being from somewhere else different from an Asian person's originally being from somewhere else?
Because in their heads, being from Europe is normal and being from Asia is weird at best and bad at worst. It's an assumption that if you don't look like them then you aren't from here. The next step is if you aren't from here then you don't belong here.
If they were to ask a white person in the US where they were from and the person answered, "Pittsburgh," then the conversation would move to something about sports. What always happens and is very annoying is that when the same question asked to an Asian person with the same answer of Pittsburgh, the next topic NEVER moves to sports or weather or how many bridges the city has (a lot). The next question is always a probe to find out where you REALLY are from, because you sure as shit aren't from America. If you were a real American you wouldn't have eyes that looked like that. It's a way to prove in their head that, even though you were born in the US and love football and drive a truck, there's an anchor that makes you anything other than American.
If racists were capable of logical, sound thoughts they wouldn’t be racist.
I wouldn't say that being racist is necessarily about the inability to think logically or rationally. It's sometimes that, of course, but sometimes it's because they just never tried to think about it. Their life experiences just never put them in that situation.
But most often, I think, it's because they can think logically, have tried to think logically, but the conclusions would make them feel less superior and thus they encounter a mental block. In other words, it's about insecurity, first and foremost.