It does not sound weird or out of place to you, because that was your upbringing. Yet some still do as I did, and look down on those who are not fortunate to be shown how one society talks differently than another society. Then, there are those who have the American language of society. For example, we cannot kill someone walking down the street in America, but we can kill someone walking down a foreign street as long as someone in some office who we never have met said it was okay. Now as I think about it there are many b.s.
Stereotypes are a language in itself.
You can change the topic from words we carry to stereotypes we carry. I am Italian-Irish, for me I have had no problems whatsoever, but I know many of my friends have. They have been called everything from spaghetti slinging drunks to abusive red heads. So because they are Italian they love spaghetti and are abusive, or because they are Irish are drunks and have red hair like leprechauns. Even more so besides nationality stereotypes, who and we where we live we hangout with.