Racist behaviour includes spitting, urination, vulgar graffiti and the use of ethnic slurs.
While dining, the protagonist is made to move from his table by racist bullies; while walking home, he is followed in a threatening manner.
During a National Front rally, racists punch and generally rough-up Pakistani characters.
During a family argument, the lead character's father is being completely unreasonable when he blows his temper at the idea that his son publicly defended their community instead of cowering as he wants to do and destroys his son's tickets he bought with his own money. Furious, the lead character denounces his father's imperiousness and walks out to the horror of his mother.