When working in the UK IT business, I was always pleasantly surprised by the lack of racist remarks behind their backs towards the ethnic minority pilots in the company. A decent person was regarded as just that irrespective of colour religion or whatever.
I think that this attitude is in part due to the avoidance of "positive discrimination" in the UK. You know that a person got the job because he or she went through the same hoops as yourself and didn't get it to fill some quota.