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The colour of your skin is nothing to do with your behaiviour. If someone wants to sterotype or statistically analyse a group then it would be more efficient & correct to do so on the demographic there would be no reason to look at colour.

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However it is somewhat indicative of ethnic origin and cultural mindsets related to a specific place of origin.

If we are able to conveniently forget how society likes to label people black or white (but at the same time damns us every time we try to simplify it- and it is an over simlification) and we look at nationalities; in the 1990s i lived in the Northern suburbs of Paris which are predominantly lower/working class, high unemployment, low social expectation areas, where I was most certainly in the minority , both ethincally and culturally.

if i broke down my neighbours- and that is what they were, my neighbours, not black people or arabs - they were martiniquais, guadeloupien, ivorien, congolais, senegalais, algerien etc etc - you get my drift- France's colonial history in respect of the african continent is far more diverse than the British experience. Now , there were certain untangible elements of behaviour amongst these different, non-caucasian elements,and their intercations with others which made them eventually distinguishable by origin/nationality- and it wasnt just me noticing it ; there are distinct tensions and dislikes between Guadaloupe and Martinique; someone from Cote D Ivoire and or Senegal will not have such an affinity with someon from the Congo; there was an element of suspicion towards all new Caledonians it seemed from all sectors. me ? I wasnt the blanc or the honkie, i was just l'anglais.

Now whether or not we like it, imaginary borders, designed and defined by the workings of man, have permitted or caused us to become segregated, identifiable, definable; in the same way these french "ethnics" have their internal grudges amongst themselves whether it be between one island and the next or an entire nation perched up against another (and there for example issues between Barbadians and Jamaicans and T'n'T's , am i correct, and many other blacks are suspicious of Nigerians, Somalians)because whether or not we like it , people of different backgrounds behave in different ways and it just so happens that certain traits can be identified in certain ethnic and cultural groups (although the artifically defined paramters preposteously set up by the Belgians with respect to teh Hutus and Tutsis was a tragic absurdity).

Nigerians? Internet fraud, illegal taxi driving,benefit fraud and illegal multiple weddings
Jamaicans? Street crime, robbery, gun crime , rape, drugs
Sicilians? Extortion, fraud, kidnapping, racketeering,
et al, ad infinitum

I am NOT saying that there are characteristics of all members of these groups, but that these groups could be found to be over-represented if we were to break it all down....