Certainly prejudice and ignorance come to some people more naturally than others but I wonder where we should run with this logic?It's also in our nature to lie, steal, rape and kill but we obviously try to stop people from harming others in this way where possible. Indeed, I am sure that no one would say it's realistic to wipe out racism overall any more than it is about crime.Naturally this man's entitled to his private thoughts but I don't think he's entitled to publicly discriminate against people of a single race. As you say, you might well be unhappy with Somalis who mug people - as I am about Somali Pirates who take people hostage but it would be laughable to suggest that all Somalians are muggers (or indeed pirates!).People like the BNP here in Britain play upon people's fear and ignorance to make them hateful of foreigners. It's always going to be easier to give in to prejudice than take the time to educate yourself about the realities of the situation e.g in this instance Britain's long history of immigration, the positive role foreigners have played in shaping our country and so on.This goes back to what we touched on before. One viewpoint is backed up by a large body of evidence and advocates treating everyone fairly - the other is based on untrue notions of cultural superiority and involves discriminating against a certain group or groups of people - I know which one I prefer!V.Quote from: deltasigma on May 19, 2012, 11:48 amPrejudice is natural. Everyone hold certain preconceived ideas about something based on loose or false information (see christianity, islam, etc).In terms of business, you can even see clearnet suppliers of legal goods refusing shipping to certain countries because of a high level of fraud. Is everyone in that country a fraudster? Of course not, but based on economics they refuse to do business with them.On a smaller scale, this vendor clearly doesn't want to ship to certain locations. However he also holds a personal distaste for a certain demographic. You have to consider the resentment created in the 70s between british and pakistani people. There is a lot of history behind the 'paki-bashers'. Personally, I am what some would consider racist. But I don't meet someone of a certain ethnicity and hate them. I have to see them do something, or act a certain way, or say something to me to hate them. For example the 15-20 year old male somalians you see in city centers, in oddly put together tracksuits, running around stealing and generally being cunts. Whilst all the time receiving benefits. I'd happily press a button to erase those people from the face of this earth. But is it because of their skin colour? No. It's because of their actions, it just so happens they all have the same skin tone. I equally hate the low life cunts in britain that do exactly the same, scrounging off society and then complaining that things aren't how they want them. That the blacks and browns are to blame for them being complete and utter inbreds. The issue with racism is, when every member of a certain nationality one individual sees, is up to something they dislike. Their brain creates an association between hating the 40 black individuals, to hating all blacks.I'm too high to put across my point logically. But basically the human brain is wired towards prejudice. It forms associations to 'chunk' together information. Think of it as instead of a computer adding 1+1+1+1+1+1, it already knows 1+1+1 = 3 so instead (without you knowing) it processes it as 3+3. Due to us being sentient beings, we've given it labels and stigmas, and tried to ban it. But we will NEVER stop racism. Unless we change our neuroanatomy. All we can do is silence it.