This is actually a pet subject of mine and I'm with EyelessInGaza when he says that ALL humans to some extent or the other are racist. But being racist is not necessarily a bad thing when you come to think about it. And when you dig deeper into what constitutes what the world loosely calls "racist." What is racist and/or racism? If you are talking about hatred and violence and subjugation of one race by another then I am against it 100%. But lets face it guys, not all men are born equal. And over millenia of evolution, affected by geography, the environment, the emans of living, etc. man has diverged along different paths, picked up different attributes, different skills, different physical features, heck even different diseases and pathophysiological afflictions and immune patterns, which till very recently (in terms of human history) were islands unto themselves, undisturbed over millenia, till the age of discovery, of conquests, as the world became truly a smaller place. The concept or "anchoring moors" of Religion and much later of Nationalities (with artificial manmade lines on paper maps) therefore are far "weaker" and much more on-the-surface less subliminal tethers to the human psyche than his race, if you rise above "modern society" as we know it and take a more macro and holistic bird's eye view of human history, anthropology, and evolution of civilizations. Its encoded into our genes over millenia ...... the shared history of birth, growth, development, and maturity of a common people ...... the human tree, with its myriad trunks, roots, branches, and twigs. Many if not most of the countries we see on earth today are nascent buds on this giant tree. Some like Iran (Persia), India, China, Greece, etc. have stayed essentially the same since ancient times, barring some recent boundary modifications, which in the larger scheme of things is nothing but the acorn not falling too far from the old oak tree. There's a lot to be said for "racism" so don't diss it before first trying to understand it.
Cheers, Doc
