I guess I tend to run settings the way they're presented? So in FR people hate/fear Drow, Orcs etc but only mildly distrust half-Orcs & Tieflings.
1) Dwarves and Elves are racist toward each other
Not particularly - up to the players, but I don't recall this coming up.
2) Half-orcs whose parents love each other are a rare exception, or even just nonexistent.
There are so few half orcs IMC I don't recall parentage being discussed. Up to the player of a PC, but orc-raped-human certainly seems a default. I don't recall using the 4e fluff.
3) Halflings are just hobbits.
Pretty much. But hobbits are scary guerilla fighters.
4) Villagers will literally attack “ugly” races on sight, even if they aren’t doing anything threatening and are well groomed and dressed. Ugly here means “monstrous” or otherwise very very not human (anything from Gnolls to Dragonborn)
No, that would be pretty much insane for lightly armed villagers to attack random dragonborn. They'd probably attack a lone gnoll, or at least shut the gate on it, but not a gnoll in the company of humans/elves/dwarves. Dragonborn are well regarded in most of my settings; Tieflings are distrusted but not attacked on sight. Tabaxi may be the butt of cat jokes, but this is more an OOC thing.
I've not had a player play an 'always chaotic evil' race like gnoll, orc or hobgoblin.
1) Dwarves and Elves are racist toward each other
Not particularly - up to the players, but I don't recall this coming up.
2) Half-orcs whose parents love each other are a rare exception, or even just nonexistent.
There are so few half orcs IMC I don't recall parentage being discussed. Up to the player of a PC, but orc-raped-human certainly seems a default. I don't recall using the 4e fluff.
3) Halflings are just hobbits.
Pretty much. But hobbits are scary guerilla fighters.
4) Villagers will literally attack “ugly” races on sight, even if they aren’t doing anything threatening and are well groomed and dressed. Ugly here means “monstrous” or otherwise very very not human (anything from Gnolls to Dragonborn)
No, that would be pretty much insane for lightly armed villagers to attack random dragonborn. They'd probably attack a lone gnoll, or at least shut the gate on it, but not a gnoll in the company of humans/elves/dwarves. Dragonborn are well regarded in most of my settings; Tieflings are distrusted but not attacked on sight. Tabaxi may be the butt of cat jokes, but this is more an OOC thing.
I've not had a player play an 'always chaotic evil' race like gnoll, orc or hobgoblin.
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and how often dwarves take a bath 
