Two argumentative fallacies noted in passing.

You make some generalisation about X; your opponent objects to the content of this generalisation. You say ‘but we make generalisations all the time, surely you can’t object to generalisations’ – you thus overlook the obvious point that it isn’t the fact of generalisation being objected to but the particular generalisation you in fact made.

Similarly, you make some specific assertion of cultural difference – ‘X people don’t respect personal space’; someone objects to this characterisation. You say, ‘but surely you recognise that there are cultural differences’. You pretend that the objection to the particular difference asserted was really an objection to the assertion of difference

Objection to content is misrepresented as an objection to the categories through which the content is articulated.