I agree with you snessy, however, I cannot blame the asian lady if she just "chose" to shut up or ignore it, whether we agree or not, this is still a "biased" country....

And yeah, I agree with the OP that it is really terrible to act like what the "abaya wearing lady" did in front of a child, in fact it is terrible to act like that in public and in front of a child, regardless which nationality are you from.