Racist

[newmum2018385]

Think I just want to vent. Went for a walk yesterday on my way back a man started making conversation saying he had just moved in the area asking what it was like. Tbh he had already creeped me out and annoyed me by waking DD in her pram. After me saying it was nice and quiet, everyone's friendly etc. He then started to tell me how he was unsure and how horrified his mum was that he was moving into an area with so many Asians. I just stood there in shock. One I am married to an Asian man my DD is half Asian and two why did he just assume I would share his view. AIBU?
I didn't really react just ignored him.

I too would be worried moving to an area with so many Asians......NOT!!! What a F**king odd and racist thing to say!!!

Take no notice, OP. No one is forcing him to move there so hopefully he'll pack up and move somewhere else and not be a negative impact on your area.

He sound really weird. I wonder if he is just a strange, malicious fucker who set out to irritate you.

Sounds like he has been watching Gran Torino

Perhaps he frightened of Triad gangs?

It might be racism, or it might not. If someone grows up in a place where there isn't much diversity, they can't know what life is like in places where there is. The media doesn't help - a) there still isn't much diversity on TV and b) you have high profile people that speak about no go zone's in British cities etc

And then he also has his mother in his ear about it, worried for him.

So it might be racism, but then if he was racist would he really be moving there? Or it might just be ignorance based on lack of experience, which can easily be sorted.

I live in a place with very low numbers of people of colour. Recently I was speaking to someone up on holiday, who heads up HR in a large firm in London. He told me he really liked it here because it felt very 'white british'. He really was a racist twat. We'd been speaking for a while, but our conversation didn't last too long after that revelation.