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I agree that the restaurant staff was acting with prejudice, but it's silly and useless to throw a hissyfit about it. If the OP was able to ask for the Chinese menu in Mandarin (or cantonese, depending on the restaurant), the server might have been a little shocked, but I bet they would have given it to him.
So yes, the restaurant staff might have been a little rude, but I'm going to drop the political correctness and say this - it's pretty rich when people, particularly white people, get offended about being excluded from things they couldn't or wouldn't do anyway. It's a pretty fair assumption that the average American white person doesn't speak any of the Chinese languages. So for a white person to argue, in English, with a Chinese person about not being given a Chinese-language menu is pretty damn silly.