To be clear, I didn't mean to call you a racist: just that that particular comment had a flavor of racism. Deeming a group of people as just generally superior

To be clear, I didn't mean to call you a racist: just that that particular comment had a flavor of racism. Deeming a group of people as just generally superior/inferior to another based country/continent of origin smells pretty racist. Maybe a more correct term would be cultural racism? It's your prerogative as to how you explain it to yourself, but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ...