kilikini wrote:
> Rona Y. wrote:
>> Damsel wrote:
>>
>>
>> That ranks right up there with "I'm not prejudiced...some of my best
>> friends are (fill in the ethnicity here)." Which, by the way, is
>> quite similar to an argument she has made before.
>>
>> It isn't that she mentioned the people were "foreign born" (which in
>> itself is a contentious phrase) that shows her prejudices, it's the
>> implication that because he was foreign born, he couldn't read or
>> understand that the pasta should have been refrigerated or frozen
>> (and was therefore stupid--implied, not stated by the tone of the
>> post--she's so lucky to get free pasta because some dumbass foreigner
>> couldn't read). That and the implication that the foreign-born boss
>> is literate *because* he was educated in England (why mention the
>> latter were it not important?). I know many North American born
>> people of European descent who are illiterate or not very competent
>> readers. Should the pasta have been shelved by one of them, would
>> Jill have mentioned the staff member was "American-born" or even
>> Caucasian? Or that the person might not have been literate?
>>
>
> I'm not prejudiced either, but I would have probably included some
> sort of ethniticity in explanation to the story if I told it too.

And yes, I would have mentioned it even if the guy was American and couldn't
read.

> The fact remains that the store attendant couldn't read English and
> the pasta wasn't put in the refrigerator.

And I even showed him on the label "must be refrigerated or frozen" AND
pointed to the cooler case where they store cheeses, bacon, etc. He
obviously didn't understand me because the alternative would be he chose to
ignore me, which would just be stupid since it's his cousin's store.
Whatever.

His partner/boss *could*
> read English, however.
>
> Ultimately, to thank her for pointing out their faux pas, she got
> some free pasta! What's the big deal? Kudos to Jill!
>
> kili

Thank you, kili.

Jill