Reuters Bradford's Asians celebrate their difference  THE
spasmodic rioting that has skipped between towns in the north of
England this summer returned last weekend to Bradford, where, in
April, it first reared its head. As in Oldham, Burnley and
elsewhere, white and Asian youths fought each other and the
police. In Bradford, cars were torched, businesses were
firebombed and, on July 7th alone, 164 police officers were
injured. The after-shock confrontations continued for several
days.  As with the riots that erupted across Britain in 1981,
there has been much dispute about whether, and how accurately,
these disturbances reflect the state of race relations in their
host towns. Rioting, after all, tends to be
contagious—especially when, as was the case in Bradford,
extremists on both the left and right help to spread the
disease. Hot weather has been a common catalyst. In the longer
term, the roles of poverty and race are difficult to
disentangle. Much of the Asian population in these towns came to
Britain to