'The woman was of Asian appearance.
Noting that this incident took place in UK, I then notice the following line in another FR thread referencing a UK incident.
"Asian" is British media code for "Muslim."UK: Muslim gang shouts abuse at young air cadets at Army barracks
I don't know what was Muslim about the woman's appearance, but not only are Muslims evidently expecting people to profile them concerning their prohibited foods, but consider the following. Roman Catholics, for example, have food restrictions too but would say, simply and diplomatically, "no thank you, today is Friday and I'm not supposed to eat meat," as opposed to having somebody fired.
What am I overlooking?
Even if the woman was wearing hijab I can’t understand how talking about bacon should be considered racist. They expect everyone to know what “insults” them? I’ve said “merry christmas” to Jews (not knowing their faith)before and they politely say, “I celebrate Hannuka, but thanks”.
It's all those slight differences between American and British English...
In GB, people from the far east, i.e. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc... are collectively referred to as "Oriental," where as that would get an American imprisoned by the PC police.
In GB, people from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc, are known as "Asian."
Mark
Well it is what the PC press use when they don't want to say "Muslim".
But "Asian appeatence" applies to every South Asian: Pakistanis, Indians, Nepalese, Bangladeshis, Ceylonese; who can also be Christian, Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist, who may eat pig (unless they are also Vegetarian*)
* Can also be a religion