Still puzzled. What you wrote there Jim still seems to be consistent with what I referred to as seeing a certain tendency towards racism as having some basis in British culture, of which the imperial past is still a significant element.

And the pont I was making was, whether it valid to see British culture as a factor in racism in this country or not, to suggest that it is should not be seen as an offensive attack on British people, or as asserting that most of them are racist. And it seems to me that the same holds true in principle where it is suggested that Pakistani culture might be a factor in the deviant behaviour of some people from that background. Or for that matter in any other behaviour.