I encountered a similar rant when I was on a bus in London with Micca - I think that was 2005.

A besotted man that Micca said was a Scotsman got on the bus, and he went around to foreign-looking people one by one, demanding to see their papers. He ranted about how they were foreigners and didn't belong there. Then he sat down next to me, and sought my agreement. I said, "I'm not a citizen of your country, either, sir - and I certainly don't agree with you!"

I see exhibitions of racism here and there in the U.S., but I don't think I've ever seen anything so overtly racist as this incident I saw. I had always thought that Americans were far more racist than Brits, so I was quite taken aback by this.

-Joe-