Is racism a learned behavior?
That would depend on how one defines racism. People in general, women more than men, and children in particular, identify with and generalize the familiar. It’s just apart of how we’re wired, and also how children learn. All peoples have an inherent tribalism, that naturally produces an “us-them” view of things, and in all primitive societies, the word for “us” translates essentially as “people” and “them” translates as “not people”. This can certainly be unlearned – or rather counter-balanced with learning and a breadth of experience, especially broad ranging travel and immersion into an alien culture or two. But the concept of “us” and “them” depends not so much on race or skin color, but of what is normative where you grow up. If that place is a racially mixed (and social distributed – i.e., negroe doesn’t = servant, and Mexican doesn’t = gardener) but culturally homogenous environment, the concept of “us” will not be based on racial factors. But there still will be a concept of “us
