Race is a cultural phenomenon . There is no such thing as race in science and there is no objective way to determine race . We all try to avoid racism as a culture except for the police . They institutionalize race by using it against the community . Only the police are allowed to use race , no other institution doing that would be tolerated . <| sep |> We moved from the southeast . My SO used to be a server . We have both had awful to mediocre service here , with only one restaurant we ' ve eaten at having what would we consider good to great service . I don ' t know what it is . Out of all the places I ' ve been to on an extended amount of time basis Portland has by far had the worst service . Mostly it ' s just servers being inattentive . We ' ve sat at tables for a really long time without so much as a drink order . We ' ve waited long times for food . The food has always been fine . The server ' s skills or attitude is what has been lessthanstellar for us . So I guess I should reasses . The service here has been different . What we consider good service based on our upbringingthat bar hasn ' t really been hit but maybe a couple of times here .