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I was on a full bus sitting next to a small group of people, a very fat blond man, a man drinking beer with his feet on the seat and a woman. As I realised they were Eastern European, I came to resent them for drinking beer on a sunday morning, taking up too many seats and putting their feet up on the seats. I know my intolerance of them was based on their being part of the new "flood" of Eastern European migrants...
I doubt I would have loved their behaviour whoever they were, but it was framed in my mind as particularly disgusting and intolerable because of who I perceived them to be.

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