I remember how the polish people in Dallas had a crying fit when Archie Bunker made fun of Michael on All in the Family.   One man told me it was OK for the polish to make fun of the polish but not for anyone else.  It was racism.  

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

-- Dwight Eisenhower