Quote Originally Posted by Avarice-ness View Post
Racism's going to exist as long as there are people who don't look exactly like you.
Not true at all. The idea of racism we understand today did not exist five hundred years ago. Racism (or discrimination on the basis of skin color) was a bi-product of American colonialism especially pursued after the notion of native labor had been quashed and countries like Spain, England and the United Provinces looked to Africa for their cheap/free labor. It was only after the slave trade in the sixteenth and seventeenth century had begun that the idea of inferiority between the races came about. Westerners needed a fabricated reason for their actions and they came up with what we call racism today. They looked at the bible for justification AFTER the fact (not before like many people think) and the culture was nurtured solely on those grounds.

I don't know much about Asiatic history and cultures (except for Modern Japan), but the idea of racism in Europe did not exist until the sixteenth century. Before then almost ALL discrimination was centered around religious divisions and going as far back as ancient Mesopotamia, all forced labor was a direct result of warfare. People aren't inherently racist because racism is not natural. Our ability to discern minor or insignificant differences among our own species does seem to be something inherent in us, though.

People haven't liked the Jews for over four thousand years.