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Originally Posted by dalerobk2
Yes, but what are the sources of those "purely aesthetic reasons"? Aesthetics are culturally constructed. They don't exist in a vacuum. Why is it that the vast majority of white people find people of African descent unappealing aesthetically?
I have 3 questions in response to your questions:
1) How are you defining racism?
2) What are the sources of the aesthetic reasons that some people prefer certain hair colors?
3) Well, not a question, but I think people tend to be attracted more to people that look like them. Probably some evolutionary thing to help preserve your genes (and those that look more like you are more likely to share more genes with you, I would think -- at the least, in the absence of real genetic tests, this seems like it would have been the best cavemen could have gone on).