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Like it or not, generalisation is a social survival tool. Humans may gradually improve their interaction skills but even if we were all the same colour and spoke the same language, we would eventually devise other justifications for segregation. Racism doesn't really exist at all, what we refer to as racism is in my opinion; culturalism. We simply associate physical aspects with the cultural generalisations we create.

I’m certainly no stranger to saying the wrong things at the wrong time and since i have somewhat of a public presence online (albeit very small) i thought it’d be a good opportunity to learn from this situation. If you have no idea what i’m talking about have a look at this article on Mail & Gaurdian .