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First off, theres a big difference between racism and prejudice. Racism is believing in the superiority of one race over another. Prejudice is predicting how people will act based on their appearance or other information you've gathered. They can both support each other but are completely different things.
If you see a guy in a suit riding a bike, you might guess he's Mormon. Thats prejudice, because you've based an opinion of him on his appearance or actions. If you say one race is automatically better than yours, because the other race its always doing something. You are using prejudice to justify your racism.
I dont think its automatically rascist for parents to want children to date within the same culture/race/religion, because they want their children to continue their values. But it is Prejudice of them to assume that someone from another culture/race/religion will automatically have different values.
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