I referred to it as a tone that ran through the article . And granted I may be super sensitive . When I arrived here in the UK 10 years back , I had many a passing comment of ' you white , you must have a diamond mine on your back, and later getting people to see me for who I am ,and learning some very honest and frank general assumptions which they disclosed . That is white South Africans being rich and arrogant and unaware of the impact they have on others. . I had hoped that we long dispelled this general assumptions . But he seems to underpin this as norm .