I hate to say this James, but I love other cultures, and have many black and asian friends may be true, but it's a really piss-poor way to open an argument! It should be obvious why.

And racism, as with any other -ism, doesn't mean that you consider someone better, it means that you treat them differently. I'm sexist - I treat women differently from the way I treat men. It doesn't mean I treat them worse, just differently.

I'm afraid that I am starting to drift towards DaveTG's point of view. Like it or not, you're starting to sound like a party political broadcast of something right of centre (not necessarily as far right as BNP)!

Whilst I'd agree that there is no such thing as positive discrimination (you always discriminate against someone...), it is something that is difficult to express without sounding like a BNP spokeperson, & you're not doing a good job of not!