Please. Who exactly was hurt here with that comment? Context is everything, you should never forget that. I want you to take a step back and think about what makes something inherently racist. It's to have a genuine feeling of superiority over another race, to discriminate against them, to be intolerant of them. Have I done any of those things?

And while the friend shield is not the best reasoning, I think it's relevant in this situation. A decent majority of my friends are Chinese or Korean American. Why would I want to discriminate against them? They're great! Far and wide, people have been confusing assumptions with blatant racism, so I think it's important to understand the distinction.

Now sure, assumptions when used with malicious intent can devolve into racism. For instance, "oh look that asian can't drive"... therefore I will not accept this person as my Uber driver. In this instance, you directly discriminated against them and your assumption impacted them negatively by losing driving revenue.