Point I made then, and make again now, is that "Pakistani" does not = "Muslim"; there is a separate culture among Pakistani male youths. Had he made the statement about all Muslims, or even all Pakistanis [I took it as implied by the context that it was only that youth segment subscribing to those particular social influences which were the subject of the ongoing discussion who were being ref'd], then of course I should have considered it racist. If the statement, therefore, had been made about all Jews, or all Martians of bug-eyed monsters or whatever, then, as I said...

That surely can't be interpreted that I can only see racism where Jews are at the end of it ... can't really see by what anfractuous ways you could have come to that conclusion.

Cross-purposes somewhere, I suspect.

Still, I take your point, and accept my statement [& his] were expressed with insufficient clarity such as to lay open to misinterpretation. Much water has flowed under the bridge since then. Now, coming back to this thread...

~M~