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I heard it said once, about how prevalent and deep racism runs in various societies, that

- Americans are racist

- Europeans wrote their thesis on racism

- Asians wrote the original sources on racism that the Europeans cite in their thesis

As far as I recall, institutional racism in western European colonial powers seems to predate extensive interaction with societies in Asia, and typically stems from the colonization of Africa and subsequent slave trade which depended on a dehumanization, initially at the hands of Portugal. There’s a loose argument in this editorial [1], although not the one I’ve seen before.

[1] https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/08/european-r...

Racism isn't just limited to the ones that are accepted as races in the modern day USA (Latino, Black, White, Middle Eastern, Indian, Asian, Pacific Islander). And dehumanization and slavery has happened in many more places and times that the Atlantic Slave Trade. Whilst the current main racism problems in the US all stem from this and colonialism, everywhere in the world has their own unique problems as well.

Did you mean to reply to my comment? It’s not clear what this has to do with what I said. I never mentioned the US at all, let alone census-designated ethnicities in the US.

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