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Teachable moment, that brings back some memories..

I don't think there are easy solutions here, to be honest. Backgrounds are so different. Had I been born in South Africa in, say, 1940, I might very well have been a racist, even if I have no inclination towards that in my actual incarnation.

Or, for our Dutch viewers, what to think of Zwarte Piet (Black Pete), the blackfaced helpers of Santa Claus in the quintessentially Dutch childrens festival on December 5. I grew up with that tradition thinking nothing of it, but the last 10 years or so with a more mixed population, it has gathered a storm of protest and I can see why.