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People tend to be scared by everything that is different, the root of racism is fear which turns into hate. We try to organize our homes, we have rituals to do things in certain ways, humans always try to create some stability and familiar environment. Everything that doesn't fit in this picture, scares us, often without noticing...the more we are scared, the more we want to get rid of what scares us.
This is certainly no excuse racism and hate, but it's ridiculous to think that we'll once see all people as "earthlings" and won't make any differences any more. Our whole economy is driven by exploiting other countries, other cultures. Wars are started because we think our political system and our morals are superior and others need to adapt them.
The sad thing is that racism seems to be tolerated as long as there aren't any bad memories from the past. Calling a jew greedy ? OMG, never, Hitler comes to your mind. Calling a black guy n1gger ? No, we had slavery, impossible. Calling an arab terrorist ? Silence, noone stands up and complains...
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