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It's very hard not to be racist. As long as groups are seperated by social boundaries, discrimination will occur. Take as example, something as simple as red hair. If you're the only kid in school with red hair, you're going to get made fun of. However, if there were just a few more kids with red hair, that red hair would make you special. You might not even hang around the kids with red hair because it was still rare enough to make you stand out in front of others. Now absurd as it might seem today, go back to more primitive times. Yours is a tribe of people with red hair and you wander into a tribe's territory that has never seen someone with red hair. What are they going to think of you, especially when they find out there's a whole tribe of people with red hair, even though they have no reason to believe you are hostile?
You can't say you are completely unbiased unless you welcome every person you meet within your community to a chat. However, with the way some communities are, a person might just tell you to piss off because you don't look like a person they would even say hello to, even though you live a block away.
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