[pluma]

> Racism's staying power comes from its paleolithic, evolutionary roots: other is danger.

Yes, but Americans seem exceptionally racist from an outside perspective, too. Not necessarily in the "people with a different skin color are inferior" sense but definitely in the "race is a meaningful way to group people and talk about interactions between groups of people".

To Americans race matters a lot (probably more so to "non-whites" than "whites"). Elsewhere (though of course not _everywhere_ else) it's just trivia: "Oh, you look different, where are you from originally?".

[everybodyknows]

Chinese attitudes on race, from people who are paid to write objectively:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13750623

[pluma]

Maybe I should have prefixed that with "relative to other Western countries".