Fair enough Lox. I don't like racist jokes and racist talk, and people getting a raw deal because of prejudice annoys and upsets me - as i hope it does all decent folk.

having said that I do feel unease, when i think of the asian kids I used to meet as a temp/supply teacher in Derby. Nice kids for the main part, some of them living in the red light areas of the city. All i will say is that the strictures of the preached Muslim dress code for girls, alongside the worldliness of their surroundings made it difficult for them to get a balanced view of things. I used to have to check my tongue, or i would have very soon found myself in trouble for saying stuff confrontational to their religion. And that would have helped no one.

By all means confront Keith, but if you don't feel that measure of unease - somehow you've got it wrong. Pretending that problems don't exist, and that there isn't grounds for concern - well its just being unobservant.

Most of us can rub along nicely - but some people are getting the wrong messages about our divergent cultures. It needs keeping an eye on and occasionally putting right.