stereotyping is stereotyping;===

I don't disagree, Sean. I just don't find any stereotyping in this particular instance. A man called Wu - which is, as I have pointed out, a common Chinese name - runs a laundry - many of which, offering a particular kind of excellence of service, were Chinese laundries (and thus called by their proprietors: this one would have had "Wu's Chinese Laundry" proudly inscribed over the door: I remember them from the 1930s) at the time. WHERE IS THE STEREOTYPING here? I honestly cannot see any.