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Evolution.
As a toddler you form your "in group" based on the people you see. Mostly that you are actually around, but also just exposed to on TV.
Anyone that you're not exposed to is "out group" and you can use conscious thinking as an adult to include others in your ingroup but when you get old and lose mental ability you'll fall back into "did I see people like that as a kid" distinction for "us" vs "them".
For the vast amount of human history, if you ran into a group of different looking humans, they were a competitor and you either boned them or killed them.
People want to act like 10,000 years of human society makes us better than other animals, but that's a blink of evolutions eye, we're still animals and if we're not socialized we're gonna act like animals.
We do that by integrating society and children's TV with integrated casts of diverse people.
Which is why conservatives and even some moderates opposed things like school busing and Sesame Street.
They're not picking random shit that doesn't matter, they're planning decades in advance to make sure the next generation can be manipulated into thinking along racial lines rather than realizing there's no just war except a class war.
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We can see it in modern day with the obsession of preventing kids from learning LGBTQ is a thing, they want kids to form their "us" group as just heterosexuals so that when that generation grows up they'll view anything LGTBQ as "them".
Many societies around the world actually are a bit racist. Anti-racism is moreso a thing that started and was invented. Humans are just naturally racist until they become better educated and realise it's wrong.
No they're not.
Like, I wrote an indepth explanation, you completely missed the details, and then posted a summary that's completely wrong...
There's a big difference between xenophobia and racism. The entire concept of race is a relatively new invention.
Probably depends how you define racism. Structured systemic racism is an invention.