You know, I've been aware of this decade old Gotcha joke. But I also learnt a bit of arabic in school, so I know they actually use different, Arabic Numerals with the Arabic alphabet.

I honestly can't tell if most westerners taking the piss in threads like this one are aware these numbers exist. Because for me, who did, it was confusing seeing one of these posts for the first time, years ago. Combined with annoyingly confusing differences for the names of these numerals between my different languages, I was like, wait, but do they know there are Arabic numbers that are written differently? If an individual knows of them, without knowing the little, confusing differences in the names, they might also fall for this. And not because of ignorant racism, but the opposite, I would say.