The problem of racial prejudice is coming from the connection between family lines meant for facilitating the castes of society and losing sight of the goal... the quality of work. Not simply because someone looks different.
In the beginning of creation Lord Brahma created the varnas so that they would perpetuate themselves through the generations by birth. "By birth" was to help facilitate the varnas.
Intermarriages (not racial intermarriages) but caste intermarriages over time destroyed the lines.. What to speak of the Battle of Kurksetra when all the Kshatriya kings were destroyed.
"By birth" in a family extends to the large family... the community, and then to those of the same physical features in a culture. And then it is all about "race"....
There is some basis for bloodlines. That's what makes it so deep-rooted. The fear and prejudice has some basis. But a clear understanding of that basis is missing. "By birth" and family blood lines are meant only to play a supporting role for stabilizing the castes.
The higher principle regardless of family line (or race in it's extended form..) is..The quality. The character. The person.
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