A good point to remember, thanx. Sometimes all it takes is politeness; other times, however, Han racism becomes assertive, obnoxious, alienating, and ultimately destructive. When was the last time Han Chinese bothered to consider the feeling of Tibetans at their land being forcibly colonized, for example? Or that Han Chinese tend to hire and promote Han Chinese exclusively, even at the cost of competence and professionalism? Several Han respond to me with blank looks: they understand what I'm talking about, they just feel that this is the natural order of things: they take their own racism for granted and feel everybody else should, too. Westerners, Cantonese, other minorities are to take a back seat - if the Han don't want it for themselves, that is.