Is it racist if I ask a sushi seller's ethnicity and only buy from them if they're Japanese (i.e. I am looking for proper sushi)?

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I was born in Lafayette, Louisiana. To eat real, authentic Cajun food, you have to get it prepared by someone that lives here. Nowhere else in Louisiana. I’ve been to New Orleans and had excellent meals there, but I wouldn’t have called it Cajun. The seasonings were off, the techniques used were different. For example, tomatoes in gumbo just don’t work. Gumbo isn’t a soup that you just add crap to.

Every place I’ve ever eaten at outside of Lafayette that claimed to have Cajun food, I would have called it New Orleans cuisine rather than Cajun. I once had what was supposed to be crawfish etoufee here in Atlanta. It was essentially brown gravy that looked like it came out of a can with a few pathetic crawfish sitting on top on a bed of Uncle Ben’s rice. I didn’t finish it, it was that bad. No amount of salt and pepper could have fixed that travesty, and Cajuns consider themselves a failure if you season their food with anything other than Tabasco, as not every Cajun likes their food spicy.

If you are not Cajun, if you haven’t been eating real Cajun food your whole life, you are just not going to be able to make real Cajun food. I have no doubt that the same is true for sushi. I would not call it racist, prejudiced, or anything. It’s a perfectly valid opinion to have to say that I’d rather have real Mexican food from a Mexican chef, than to have him try to make me some sushi. If you have the palate to distinguish the difference, then you have the right to choose where you get it from.

My girlfriend is Ethiopian, she only really likes the Ethiopian food from one place in Atlanta. We often go to a different Ethiopian place, one that’s more appetizing to the Western palate, but I’m coming to like her place more and more as I get more used to Ethiopian cuisine.