[Margaret Pilkington]

Stanaccy - isn't that what I said...maybe not in the same words, but essentially.....I said it depends on circumstances and situations....and also your own relationships with the people to whom the cliche was used.
Multiculturalism is like the Emperor's new clothes.....we have been bamboozled into thinking it was good for us and for the ethnic minorities(and I don't just mean the Asian population here) when in actual fact it has done harm to communities by singling them out as different.
And I don't agree that we would never have tried the different culinary delights of other nations - the advent of global travel has meant that people are more exposed to different foods and cultures....though personally I do not have any kind of longing for foreign food, be that Pizza or curry...give me the stuff I can identify.
I agree that there has been much dismantling of our own culture, and I think it is seen with suspicion - this cannot be good for the ethnic minoities it was supposed to help....you see when most people in this region mention ethnic minority, Asian is the only ethnic minority that is recognised....and there are many other minorities that need to be accepted.