LogFAQs > #902621062

"Me against my brother, my brother and I against my cousin, and all of us against the stranger."

That's pretty much the defining principle of human nature. We always group ourselves into "us", and "them", and define "them" as "the enemy".

Racism is just when you use skin color as the defining trait that separates "us" from "them". As humans, we also use religion, nationality, sex/gender, ideology, and about a thousand other factors to draw that line. In the smaller scale, things like which sports team you root for or which console you prefer is enough to define "THE ENEMY".

One can only assume that "that blatantly other species that looks nothing like me and seems to think differently than I do" would draw a pretty hard line.

It's also why some people have said in the past that the only way we'll ever truly have peace on Earth is if we're attacked by aliens, because that way we'd be able to define them as "them" and in the process lump all humans as "us", erasing lesser distinctions. And even then, for some people, some of the other distinctions would still be worse (hence why sci-fi always seems to have fifth columns and race traitors who turn on humanity to side with the aliens for one reason or another).


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