My wife and I have been visiting the United Kingdom for over 25 years and about two years ago decided to move there permanently from Hong Kong (due to my advancing years and nothing to do with the national security law ). My wife has been living in Edinburgh, Scotland, for the past 18 months while I remain in Hong Kong as my relocation plans have been frustrated by Covid-19 restrictions. In all this time, as a visitor and permanent resident, my wife, who is Filipino, tells me she has never encountered any racial prejudice there. However, two neighbouring houses in our estate recently changed hands, and the new residents are obviously ethnically Chinese. A few days ago, my wife was stopped by one of her new neighbours who asked if she was the “caretaker” of our house. My wife explained she was the owner and guessed that the new neighbour was from Hong Kong. The new neighbour confirmed that she was indeed. A few days later, curious, she asked how my wife knew. My wife explained that in her experience, only Hongkongers tend to assume that a Filipino would be in a subservient master-servant relationship. She also explained that none of her other Chinese neighbours from mainland China or Taiwan had ever openly made such an assumption. An isolated incident? Unfortunately not, as our new neighbours in the other house asked my wife the same question a few days later: was she a part-time caretaker? In themselves these are minor incidents, and I am sure these new neighbours meant no harm even though they perhaps exemplify the mindset of some Hongkongers. But taking their prejudices to Britain along with their lack of awareness of the sensitivities of others, whatever their ethnicity? Sorry, but this will not do in modern Britain. Doug Miller, Tai Po