I'd just like to point out that in my OP I was sure to stress there was absolutely no intention of bad feeling on the part of the singer, nor yet on the part of those who raised the Oy Vey - just one of a set of responses which, if not rehearsed as such seemed as customary a part of the song as the stretching of the imaginary braces when someone sings the canon and ball line in Please to See the King (Joy, Health, love and Peace).

My reaction was a personal one, and certainly not a righteous one, and God knows the perpetrators are some of the finest human beings I've ever met in my life. My point was not to out them as racists, which they most assuredly are not (nor yet are they morons) rather to draw attention to just how implicit a lot of this stuff is anyway, being so buried in our culture that at times we fail to notice it on account of the innocence of the intention - much less the tradition, in the name of which just about anything would appear to be excusable.

On such matters I am, for whatever reason, especially sensitive; so perhaps my reaction was an over-reaction, but this isn't about The Enlightened vs. The Unenlightened, rather the extent to which such racism would appear to be encoded into culture as a whole. An example, when searching for a link to The King in the DT, I entered the and king into the DT search and amongst the various songs that came up there was This.

I remind myself that the worst racist anecdotes I've ever heard were those told by Indian Hindus about Pakistani Moslems.