My father was( maybe stil is) vehemently anti-irish, and vocal about it too. Until I pointed out to him that his grandfather came from Belfast. And I come from a town in the UK that has got a high immigrant population, notably asian ( our asian, not the american sino-asian asian...erm...if you see what I mean...any way indian, kashmiri, pakistani.) and there were those Indians who had become "anglicised" and would use the racist terminology of the whites to talk about non-anglicised asians. MAn talk about Uncle Tom.