Is it stereotyping to describe a laundry, staffed by individuals of chinese heritage, as a Chinese laundry?
Our high street is full of Chinese takeaways (serving Chinese food, and staffed by Chinese emigrants), but no one makes a fuss.
Most of the Indian takeaways are staffed by people of Bangladeshi heritage, but that doesn't cause any upset, either.

Then again, my only experience of a Chinese laundry is from the pages of Dandy comics, so perhaps I've simply grown up unaware of the terrible racial slur - is it similar to how "paki shop" used to be used?
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