[West Ender]

Sticking my neck out, I think there is correlation with the "Multiculturalism" thread here. These kids, along with so many people, were (are) seeing people of different colour/creed/culture as a seperate entity, not part of "our" society, apart from us.

The reason they see things that way is that is how Society is encouraging different cultures to behave. So many laws to preserve the "seperateness", so many instances of perceived one-sided treatment, no insistence on integration.

The kids were reflecting an attitude that's becoming more and more prevalent, born of resentment at the lack of integration and anger at the extreme behaviour of a growing faction. I don't in any way condone what they did but I fear there will be a lot more of the same in the future.