Not to be annoying, but Singaporean is not an ethnicity but a nationality, the main ethnicities that makes up Singapore are Chinese, Indian and Malays. Not that the racist in question cared about any of these
I'm reminded of when senators, people who are supposed to act professional, were repeatedly asking the TikTok ceo if he was Chinese and the guy had to repeatedly tell them he's Singaporean.
Absolute children running the country.
I am flabbergasted this wasn't an American saying this, but also unsurprised to learn he was Japanese.
Japan absolutely hated the Chinese well before the US arrived on the scene.
i know but this exact situation, calling a singaporean chinese, is something the US recently did in the tiktok hearings.
To be fair, it wasn't like racism suddenly became a thing in Japan once they became a US vassal.