Originally Posted by
TragicMonkey
Really. Mistaking a Canadian for an American is racist. Mistaking a Belgian for a Luxembourgian is racist. Mistaking a San Marinoan for an Italian is racist.
Does it only apply to national boundaries? If a South Carolinian is mistaken for a North Carolinian is it racist?
As Prestige says, it's to do with ignorant assumptions, rather than 'making a mistake'.