So, you were raised in the UK too.

So, what?

So, that gives you the right to dismiss my experience?

Maybe your life experience and mine differ in more than one ways than the colour of our skin, I've lived in a number of different countries in my time and started out doing so when I was just eighteen ... so, when I later finished my studies as a mature student and started working for a living at anything other than barman, nightwatchman, dustman, etc., my language skills and cultural knowledge meant I ended up employed in multicultural enterprises ... in which respect for colleagues' cultural differences was significantly part of the business ethos, never mind and ethnic ones.

I've known people be fired for using racial/ethnic slurs when they thought that, as part of the warehouse staff ... where nobody would even notice, let alone mind ... they could say whatever they liked, only to find that (thankfully) it wasn't tolerated by the native British working there either, never mind the foreign nationals in other departments.

But, if you haven't worked in that kind of environment yourself, maybe you won't have that experience ... maybe in your workplaces, casual bigotry has been tolerated, if not even tacitly condoned by management ... and you are sceptical as a result.

Nevertheles, it's rather disrespectful of you to dismiss my experience simply because it isn't yours; seriously ... why would I lie? - I'm white and Anglo-European ... it's no skin off my nose either way around and I've no motivation to do so.

As for "everybody" disagreeign with me ... think I'll defer to the opinions of those of my friends directly impacted by them t=rather than to yours — they say they are offended by them to the same degree as do my 'Jamaican' friends ... and they don't argue between them as to who has it worse ... so, that's good enough for me.