There was nothing wrong with his question. Your not-so-subtle implication of racism is inappropriate. Some people are simply interested in language and names.

There was nothing wrong with his question. Your not-so-subtle implication of racism is inappropriate. Some people are simply interested in language and names. I've never seen the surname Teixeira before and I also wondered the same thing, since "eira" suggests Portuguese but the 'x' seems like Nahuatl or Mexican Spanish (like Tlaxcala).