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Thanks for this well thought out piece! Racism is the inability to look at each person as an individual.

there is a fascinating video report on research about skin-color, which is what we're really talking about with the code word "race" ...see below...this is a great site for all things evo-dev...bes.ucla.edu

it's all about sexual competition apparently...

"Sexual Selection and the Psychological Architecture of Race Prejudice
CARLOS NAVARRETE, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY & EVOLUTION, ECOLOGY, AND BEHAVIOR PROGRAM
Intergroup aggression perpetrated by men has been a persistent feature of human societies for centuries, and may have been common enough over evolutionary time to have allowed selection to shape the neural circuitry underlying the psychology of prejudice. Because intergroup aggression poses different adaptive challenges for men and women, the psychological adaptations that operate to cope with such threats may differ between the sexes as well. Because racial categories are often mentally represented as group-like entities, modern race bias should be understandable within this general framework. Results from several studies are consistent with this perspective, and show that (a) race bias is primarily directed at male exemplars of racial-outgroups, (b) men are more likely to be aggressively prejudiced than women, and (c) women are more likely to be fearfully prejudiced than men, particularly during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle. Illustrations of how these systems may be operative in political attitudes and voting preferences for Barack Obama are presented. These results are consistent with the notion that the psychology of intergroup prejudice is generated by different psychological systems between men and women.

http://www.bec.ucla.edu/presentation.php?id=201

This is a great article. In my studies of anthropology and reading of ethnographies of isolated tribes. It appears that their isolation Is inspired by xenophobic ideals passed down through oral traditions proclaiming outsiders to be demons and monsters, despite the lack of difference in their phenotype. This insures the survival of the tribe from outside influences. In my opinion on modern civilization, these primal tendencies still exist in the example of sport team affilation.