There are, alas, no easy answers.

The mother of my son's girlfriend, who is Pakistani, thinks that pakistani girls who date white boys are whores (her words not mine). My son was also attacked in the street by a group of asians because he had an asian girl on his arm.

While I have heard it many times on TV etc, the only time I have heard the word "nigger" used in my presence was by a well educated pakistani man when he was referring to West Indians.

I certainly don't agree that children more easily mix with their "own colour", my kids never had a problem, I would go as far as to say that young children are, in fact, colour blind. Racism is learned.