If you think that's interesting you should see an even worse case that happened recently. During a Champions League football match a Romanian reserve referee was arguing with some folks from one of the teams playing. He wanted the most vocal to get a yellow card. There were multiple folks there, all dressed the same, similar builds.

So, being slightly naive and maybe stupid, he told the Romanian main referee to book "the Black one", in Romanian. Black in Romanian is "negru". And it's not offensive (maybe a bit too colloquial for the setting), we have a ton of offensive words he could have used. Ironically, they wouldn't have understood any of the truly offensive words, I'm quite sure.

Because a ton of the folks around being English speakers you can figure out how this ended.

From a certain perspective you could say it's cultural imperialism.