I agree about the race card, ridiculous and pathetic. No one cares about your R but they do care about your honesty and integrity. One of the reasons that FZ may not be over enthusiastic about recruiting from the ahem, sub continent is that historically they did recruit some pilots from that region and they were subsequently found to have forged licences and log books. I flew with one myself and I knew something was wrong. So shove your R well,up your R. Otherwise, all crew got on fine regardless of nationality.