Originally Posted by: 6strngs_2hmbkrsalright. just needed to be sure, some people get extremely offended if you can't figure out their race by looking at them.

If you walk down any London street you will pass multitues of fairly identical white folk. You stop and ask a cross section of them the time, and you will come across Australians, Germans, Swedes, Poles, Russians and just about every European country is represented. Germans aren't going to walk around in Lederhosen, or Swedish girls in Milkmaid costumes, or Dutchmen in wooden shoes, no more than us Brits walk round with our hereditary massive appendages hanging out our trousers! It would be too simple if all Mexicans (not Magic, he's Hispanic) walked around in huge sombrero's and all Latino's wore chambermaids outfits.
There are successful Latino's and Hispanic folk too, just as the guy who empties our dustbins (trash) is as English as Yorkshire Pudding. It's silly to assume all latin folk are gonna have low paid hotel jobs, not to mention a bit offensive. I'd say its harder in (urban) Britain to guess someones race, than just about anywhere else.
I stopped four different people for directions whilst on a recent London trip, each time I was met with a shrug (don't speak English) I then picked on people I 'knew' would be British, only to be foiled three more times. I eventually asked an Asian guy, and he put me right straight away! Go figure, as you chaps would say!
ps. One small section of this isn't quite true. Can you spot it