I think it is getting better and hopefully in another hundred years everyone will have a rellie who is "ethnic" and everyone will be over the racist cr@p.
Joan, racism is everywhere, has existed since the dawn of man and will exist right up until the moment the last human dies.
I've known a bunch of racists in my lifetime. Some of them are white, some black, some asian. Ask Malays what they think of Thais, for instance. I used to have lunch with my Malay friend and if we saw a Thai person, I would give her a bit of a hard time by saying 'Hey look, there's a Thai person, we should go and say hello'. I don't know why she hated Thai people, Thai's are hands down the friendliest people I have ever met, generally speaking. All of my Thai friends have been super awesome people.
One time on another forum, I mentioned that my then girlfriend is Japanese. One of the other posters - a Chinese broad - told me that I 'should stick to my own race'. To which I replied 'you mean the human race?' When I profess my attraction to asian women, sometimes someone will say 'Oh, you have yellow fever'. No... I like attractive women and sometimes they happen to be asian.
Humanity is an inherently tribal culture - as you pointed out 'us vs them'. Although I am second generation Australian, my heritage is Ukrainian and I am fiercely proud of it. I love being Ukrainian, the culture, the language, everything! I'm about as Aryan as it is possible to be. But I have so many friends from so many different parts of the world and that's one of the millions of things I love about living in Australia, aka the best country in the world.
I've been doing a little bit of reading about White Nationalists, it's pretty interesting. I don't agree with very much of what they believe, because it's only *just* on this side of the line from full blown White Supremacy, but some of it I identify with. In particular, the pride in one's cultures and traditions. I've spawned a bit of an interest in Norse Mythology and Vikings as a result.
Before anyone gets their knickers in a twist, I am *not* comparing Norse mythology to White Nationalism, okie dokes!