I think tribalism has a big part to play, Bill. Thanks for that. You summed it up very well indeed and gave an idea I had more substance :-) When I said I do not feel guilty about the reaction that sometimes springs to mind I said it was just the way things were. The way I am. I know that everyone is more or less the same so I am sure many other people have flashes of *ism and manage to reason their way out of it. That is, I am sure, that tribal instinct that must date back to when we first stood on two legs. How and why we are different from that first man is that we now posses the intellect to see that cosmetic or cultural differences are not so important. Well, most of us anyway!

I think Robert Burns sums up the latter part of your post admirably in the words

"O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!"

Cheers

DtG