Racism is a belief that some races are superior to others, justifying actions that create inequality by favouring the supposedly superior groups. In practice, the definition of race is broadened to include ethnic, religious, and other similar groups, so discrimination on such grounds is also termed racism. Some people deny that racism is common in modern, industrialized, multi-ethnic societies. Wherever research is done, however, it shows racism is important. In a national representative survey in the 1990s by the UK Policy Studies Institute, for example, 20–26% of the White participants admitted in an interview to have prejudice against Asian, Caribbean or Muslim ethnic minorities.1 In fact, the figure is likely to be larger, for some people do not give publicly unacceptable answers in interview. It would be interesting to see comparable data from other European countries; the results would surely be equally and perhaps even more uncomfortable.