A true polygot

What is this narrative of opinions based on skin colour. How and why do we differentiate against people of a different skin colour to our own.
Well of course prejudice comes in many guises. The way you speak, the way you hold your knife and fork, which school you attended, or simply whether you were brought up in another part of the country, all contrive to bias an opinion and to prejudge the person relying on your own set of convictions that such and such and so and so indicate a lower, lesser status.
And there it is this damming, defining, inevitably social construct called status !!  It seems that the sketch played by the "Two Ronnie's", involving each party to the sketch demanding his separation and exclusiveness from the other (a brilliant piece of comedy) is and has been always with us. It seems to be part of ones self survival kit, to believe you are superior or at the very least on a par with people and can hold your head up in the social mix.

Where do we get this prejudice. Is it in our continuing attempt to match the images we receive from the world at large with our opinion of our own set of values, values if we are honest are learnt and have no "absolute" status. One man's values are usually specific to his or her upbringing and environment. The belief system (non religious) by which we coalesce to form a workable whole is learnt and we differer at our peril of being thought "strange".

And so in this social melting pot we still call England, perhaps sometime in the future we will have to re-brand the place to better reflect its new make up, we continue to categorise in the forlorn hope that our categories mean anything any more.
Perhaps after my generation have passed out of sight and maybe the next, we will have forgotten the differences and become a true polyglot.