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You're making a similar point to what mak2 just made, and it's a good, interesting one. As I said to him, I have to think on it more before I can say anything in any direction on it.
Yeah, I wouldn't really expect a non-American to be well versed in American stereotypes. In fact, when I heard about Sergio Garcia's comments, my first thought was "How much would a Spaniard really understand the racial implications of this comment?"
This brings up another mistake I made in my OP (as I noted earlier, I'm in idiot mode today). I should have made it clear that this is fairly amero-centric. I would not expect people outside of the US to be familiar with our stereotypes or racial issues.
American culture permiates the entire globe - people all over are aware - don't for a minute think that Garcia didn't know what he was saying. And from personal experience I would say that the average European is far more racist than the average American, by a long shot.