A final thought, and then I really am off.
This has been one of the most squalid threads I have ever been involved in.
It has been unbelievably depressing to see up close, concerted attempts by a tiny handful of posters to brand a whole racial/cultural community as sordid criminals, based on unresearched (and largely undigested by those who would attempt to make capital of it), 'information'.
All my life I have been witness to racism in three of Britain's major cities. I know it exists; I've seen it almost daily and have, when we were working with Travellers, experienced it first hand, yet, when I attempted to play devil's advocate and suggest that it might be an English cultural trait, the screams of outrage from the most vociferous advocates of British Pakistani degeneracy, could be heard from here to Buckingham Palace.
You really can't have it both ways.
If it is permissible to openly advocate that British Pakistanis are culturally inclined towards sexual degeneracy, then it is equally permissible to advocate that the English are culturally racist (and lousy lovers who can't make it in the bedroom), that Irishmen are moronic, Guinness-swilling bomb-throwers, that blacks are over-endowed, over-sexed drug dealers and users, and Americans are gun-toting loudmouths who tolerate torture and imprisonment without trial to be used by their politicians in their name.
Racial stereotyping is evil; it divides our society, it impoverishes and disadvantages whole communities, and it can kill – ask the parents of Stephen Lawrence.
Jim Carroll