Can open, worms everywhere!
Watch your back @papa-pepper the powers that be don't like people talking sense and tearing down their fabricated reasons to hate each other.
I grew up in a small town. one of my best mates was a maori. His dad was a maori and his mum was a pakeha (white). Growing up, this meant nothing to me. They were just people I knew and played with. I stayed at his house, he stayed at my house. We got into trouble together...
The neighborhood where I live now is filled with people of all sorts of different creeds, colours, ethnic backgrounds etc. It's pretty cool. We have women wearing head scarves - they may be muslims or they may not. who cares? We have disabled people, mentally challenged people, gang members, and little old men running in lycra shorts, all in one suburb.
Diversity is a good thing. The only reason not to embrace it is fear. So the question that should be asked is - what are you afraid of?
Yes, I've successfully opened a can of worms. Here they come!
It's a good discussion to be had, but very few will thank you for it, and those that do will probably not be racist to start with.
I think the best cure for racism is travel. Go and live somewhere else, in a different country, in a different society, and you quickly learn that we are pretty much all the same.
I was lucky enough to travel the world when I was younger, and met people from all over the world. And the one thing that nearly all of them had in common was - once you got to know them, the were really nice people.