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some cultures are just far more direct and open with their questioning or statements. it's not uncommon for an east asian person to just tell you that you look bad/don't look your best, and that you need to lose a little weight, etc. it's intended wholly positively, and not as an insult; they say it out of concern for your health. asking someone about their house or job status is not an 'alarm bells' trigger in most cultures. dilbert is extremely paranoid to suspect that an average taxi driver is going to steal from his house.

Possibly the guy was a bit of a dick and Dilbert of course redirects his rage to his skin colour and ethnic origin because Dilbert thoroughly conditioned himself to see that as the foremost and only factor influencing others' behaviour. Most all he tends to couple negative traits: pakistanis and indians are swindlers/dirty, africans are violent & dumb, asians are two-faced and plotting, but their women are kinda cute and submissive I guess so the manly westerner Dilbert wants to fuck them.

I wonder how he perceives his own British roots and his place in AUS society. Heaven forbid others would associate him with chavs and other working class dregs from London. Or perhaps he's by nature an elitist, conniving and manipulative person, growing up the son of daddy the diplomat. Are all aus people the sons and daughters of criminals ergo pieces of shit? Or are these surface judgments unfair?

In western society yes. I suppose I first experienced negative stereotyping when I spent a while in China. Seemed to be the case that some Chinese considered westerners naive, walking money bags & the rejects from Europe/the USA (they send us their worst!). Racism is a human trait after all..

We have the advantage that most anywhere else in the world white people came to colonise the place, meaning that remaining white populations are often overrepresented in the top layer of society.

Ebay listing for a rare Magic the Gathering card was for $20. Usually sold for twice that on MTG collector websites. I bet on it for $20 and then got into a last minute bidding war with someone who beat me for it with a bid of $30. 5 minutes after the listing ended that I lost I was told I needed to pay for the card now. The guy who won withdrew his bid after winning and I got stuck buying the card anyway? So the guy drove the price up $8 just to fuck me over because he didn't want it anyway?

What a stupid system.

Okay so mystery solved. I actually did make the highest bid for it and a another item from the same seller and circumstances. My father buys and sells a lot through eBay and my sister also uses it a lot. We are all under the same account. So my sister was apparently watching the auction time run out and me outbidded and decided to win the auction on my behalf for me. I don't think she wanted me to not miss out but she got a small dopamine hit when she won the auctions and didn't have to pay the bill.

Dilbert is the least racist person I know

Still pretty pissed that whiny indians cancelled Apu.

Every single character in the Simpsons is an offensive stereotype, but only the indians whined about it.

Thats a separate issue

I think the show lost a lot of its personality long ago when it moved from the dark humor premise to throwing in family-friendly, heartwarming slice-of-life. It's so weird to see episodes where they try and endear Homer to the audience while in the next moment strangling his son like old times.

Didn't Disney buy it? In that case, I don't think it will ever be truly "cancelled."

IIRC, the comics it was based on were a little dark. They dumbed that down a bit for the show, and then hit it with a giant dumb hammer.

why don't you build your own house?

In your case, dilbert, I don't recommend you live alone, unsupervised. Don't listen to uzique.