My partner works away a lot with around 30 Geordie lads, they consistently make racial remarks and he’s been in a few arguements with them as he has to remind them not to do this infront of him as he has mixed kids/ partner. Don’t get me wrong they do apologise and make a conscious effort not to do it. Now my oldest sons dad is from Newcastle and whenever weve been up I’ve not had any racism which tells me it’s not necessarily racism but ignorance, I’ve had it bad in certain areas of Scotland and Liverpool tbf