billd91
Not your screen monkey (he/him)
Honestly, isn't a lot of real-world racism primarily cultural and less about skin tone, even in the US? As in a lot of objections on minorities boil down to "they aren't like us (culturally)"?
I'm beginning to wonder more and more if most racism really is some form of xenophobia actually.
At one point, yes, lots of real world xenophobia is cultural, not skin tone. But as time has gone on, particularly in the US, you see groups that were once the subject of a lot of xenophobic bigotry get accepted into the broader racial majority community. Think of examples like the Irish, Polish, and Italian immigrants to the US. Lots of bigotry from the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants who immigrated before them - but now largely accepted and unlikely to face a lot of barriers to their privileges as fellow white people. But then, it's hard to tell by looking at them that they aren't technically WASPs - and thus the xenophobia dies down a bit while racism stays put.
That said, of course, there are variations involved here. Some groups have been integrated into the WASPy community more than others. It's still possible to be stopped by a cop for "driving while Hispanic" if you're Portuguese. It's still possible to be thought of as being behind some big, banking conspiracy if you're Jewish. And in both cases still benefit from having some degree of white privilege (at least in contrast to other more underprivileged racial groups). So I wouldn't chalk too much up to some kind of ecumenical xenophobia based on culture - that is far more mutable and less ubiquitous than racism based on skin color.