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Second quote is me completing the original. Why did you cut that last part of the sentence out?
Ah that's why. Yeah no they didn't. They were talking about the people leading those countries, not the entire population.
It's racist to call someone of another race "boy".
It's not racist to say that a country's leadership is acting childish. Heck it would actually be racist if someone were to say "all Indians are childish." But that's not what happened.
People call other people childish all the time without a hint of racist intent.