Well said Raju.

A_P,

You clearly are missing a point and going around in circles. If your Vikram Pandits and Indira Nooyis were not to introduce themselves in suites and pants, chances are, an ordinary American would definitely "compliment" them not insult.

Pixie's case is different. Sure, maybe she was stereotyped on this occasion or maybe, even that woman even tried to bring her down but it doesn't entitle anybody to make a generalization. If someone were to come up to my face ( they have ) and tell me that my English is good, of course, I would wish they hadn't said that because I went to an English medium school and my English is fairly good compared to other immigrants who come from a non-English speaking countries. But how on Earth is that American wrong in saying that my English is good? I come from a country where less than Illeteracy rate is very high, forget all this English fluency nonsense. Why should I feel offended?

Again, each to their own.