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I read with interest the comments above about Chinese and Koreans, because although to us they are nationalities, to some of the Chinese and Koreans I've met, they are races.
Also relevant is the strife between Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda/D R Congo. Are they races? Are they nations? Are they tribes? Also, what about he former Yugoslavia? Where Bosnian Serbs fought Bosnian Muslims, was that racism, nationalism, or religious hatred?
The phrases "Ethnic Tension" and "Ethnic Cleansing" seem more relevant in many of these cases rather than "Racism" but it's all different facets of the overwhelming fear and hatred of "the other" that I mentioned very early on.
I've known a group of racially diverse football fans start a fight with fans from another club in the same country - it's all about tribalism in one way or another.
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