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Also you're from London/Watford... If you to go up to Burnley, or any Lancashire/West Yorkshire town you'll be surprised.
Toughest place I worked was this outlet warehouse on a Gosforth industrial estate... not because the work was hard, but because everyone working there was beyond casually racist. Darkie's, Paki's, Chinky's etc etc etc. Hideously backwards, and genuinely astonished that I wasn't, to the point of distrust. That was 12/13 years ago. I doubt much has changed, and in fact with today's climate likely to have reversed further.
I grew up in Enfield and was called a paki on a daily basis even though I'm not Asian and I don't look Asian in the slightest. But everyone else in my class was clearly white and English. So it's not something that's isolated to the north of England