'good guys' and race.

A family member was gallivanting on about this 'good guy' thing.

In  nutshell, it goes something like this -

"And the guy told him about this technique where you say, can I get a good guy discount on that? You're a good guy. I'm a good guy. Come on, just a good guy discount." (source here).

Now while the concept of good or bad is really often subjective, I've never been one to query about a discount for a number of reasons. Chief among them is that as a non-white person, you learn early on in life to simply get your business done and get moving.

In thinking about this, I asked the family member if the person who subsequently conducted the underlying experiment behind this was a white guy (it turns out he is, but at the time if asking, I wasn't aware).

Anyways, this family member went on to say -

(paraphrasing) -- that it'd work for black people to because they'd seen some in stores where where they'd simply and just to the fist thing, --

- to which another family member stated

(paraphrasing) -- yeah Asians do the same thing; in fact you know 80% of them do it, and if it's that much you know it ain't a stereotype. --

Couple of things came to mind at this point =

I'm not white, and never when I've been in any business I've done business with, have I ever singled out the non-white person to ask for a discount. To expand, I've never really done that with pretty much anyone at any business (as I stated above). But someone I seriously doubt it'd work for me because as I suspected, a big part of this being successful depends greatly in being the same color as the person whom you're asking a discount from. And further, if Ben Calhoun was successful, I suspect a big part of it is he's white, and living in same society as me; one which is still predominantly run by white people.
 
Anyways - they both said this right in front of my kids, both of whom are of a mixed-race background. I couldn't help but think the racial assumptions they were making were somewhat redneckish at best, and downright bigoted at worst. I didn't really bother continuing pursuing it (too many white people around).

What do you think?