The 12 passengers seems to have ignored aircraft crews' plea for normal accepted behaviour in the aircraft. So the inconvenience faced by other passengers are due to the misbehaviour of the few who are responsible for the delay. I have been an extensive traveller all over the world and have not felt a pattern of racism in the behaviour of Europeans and Americans in general. It is a fashion for some people to blame them when they resist abnormal behaviour in the public place and in the groups