“Racial prejudice is as old as mankind”
What evidence is there of that?
Ppl don’t like ppl who look different from them, which includes skin color. It was a good instinct for survival thousands of years ago. Hence, it’s as old as mankind. Changing inherent behavior will take time, if it’s even possible.
What evidence is there of that?
Definitely no archeological evidence that I know of.
Perhaps a better version of the idea in natural human behavior would be prejudice against “those who are not us”.
As in those who are not of our clan, of our tribe, are not of our culture, are not of our religion.
This would be the natural distrust of people you do not know which is, I believe a genetically passed on survival trait.
A stranger shows up in your hunting grounds. Is he there to take a few of your deer or is he there to take your women and kill your children?
In Paleolithic times there may have been a survival benefit to prejudice. A band of people who assumed that a strange band of people were hostile and were proactive (killing the others) was more likely to survive and have descendants, while a band of people who assumed the other band was friendly was more likely to end up as barbecue. Those days are long gone and people should be judged as individuals, not as members of a group, but it may be that we have to learn to be tolerant of others because in the remote past people were more likely to survive if they were prejudiced.
Everyday terms used by our grand parents such as Wops, Dagos, Polacks, chinks, kikes, micks, krauts.........
Whatever group they belonged to, it was just natural to think their heritage was better than the others......