Dot Wordsworth: Jostling aggressively with ‘selfie’ and ‘twerk’, we have ‘push back’

Saying that national generalisations have fallen out of fashion is an understatement. Stereotypes have become less common and less tolerated. But not all is unblemished improvement, and something of value has been lost. National generalisations – often misnamed racial – now veer close to thought crimes. A pity – national generalisations are a basic tool