Ah right, that makes sense. Today I learned.

For what it’s worth, I always prefer being redundant if it makes the meaning clearer to a non-native speaker audience.

For instance I didn’t know “pandemic” implicitly meant “global”. In my ignorance I thought you could have a localized pandemic. But by saying “global pandemic” it makes it more obvious to everyone, including those who, like me, didn’t know.

Also I’ll personally keep saying “my phone had an LCD display” because it feels smoother than “my phone has a LCD”.

As an Italian, I would say that’s not the case, not “a lot of Italians are racist”. I’ve had interactions with a few racist people of older generations, but I would say that they are the exception, thankfully.