Hi frog, I can see where your coming from and that is probably what Nigel is apologising for. Though as you said it is insulting rather than racist.

However the alternative would be to say non-western expats or something similar, which is probably equally insulting but to far more people.

(Actually the alternative was to leave the statement out altogether as it wasn't really relevant to the story, something which Nigel probably wishes he had done).

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