RockLee said:well it still is used in court as arguements, and every day you see ppl getting called a racist because they dislike a few ppl who are from a different nationality....so what could you name it then ? :?
Nothing. They just dislikes some individuals, not a whole race. The best way to prove it is by giving examples of people one like/love and dislike/hate in the ethnic group in question. Then, very often racists are convinced that their race (could it be another race ?) is superior to all others. Of course it doesn't have to, as hating just one particular race in the world is enough. But that could be used as an argument against those mentally limited people who call anyone who has dislike for one person from a different race a racist. Just tell them you have lots of friends from this or that ethnic group. That is often enough to make them shut up.
That brings us to another question. If someone think that one race in the world is superior to all others, but this person doesn't belong to this supeior race, can this person be called a racist ? By definition yes. The funny thing is that there are such people, who actually wish to change their look (cosmetic surgery, etc) to look more like an ethnic group they do not belong to, because they idolize them (i.e. consider them better or superior).
So is racism necessarily a bad thing ? It doesn't have to be violent or even discriminative. Some people may think that one race is superior, but without having any (negative) consequences on their behviour toward people from other races.
Then, is it worse thinking one race is better than all others, or all races are better than one in particular ? If all people in the world agreed to say that one race (could a minor one, even a tribe, or a major one...) was inferior to all the other races on earth, would it be worse than the reverse situation (one race consider itslef better than the rest). I think the latter is common is almost every culture. It's natural as people want to feel superior to others who are different, and they may not understand. In the former case, it may well be because of factual evidence that this particular race is backward or genetically less evolved. In any case, I suppose that thinking it is passable, as long as no violent or discriminative actions are taken against the ostracized race. Then it all depends on who is the strongest (could be the ostracized race).