I've never bought into this inherent Racism dogma. When i was a child in the east end, coming from Irish stock my family were a natural target for bigots This was on a daily, sometimes hourly basis.
The natural level of this was that for every knuckle dragging Englishman, the were scores of others who treated us the same as everyone else.
My dad was universally known as 'Mick,' to his workmates just as a Scot would be 'Jock' etc. There was no, and still isn't, any derogatory meaning to the name.Ignorance like this will never respond to logic as it is impossible to reason a man out of a position that he hasn't reasoned himself into in the first place.
Know these people for what they are. I have always used the experience to reaffirm how far I have evolved, but then again I was brought up right.
I do draw the line however, at explaining what love is to a bloody foreigner.