zoeygirl59: We have to recognize the subconscious bias is to some extent evolutionary. Studies have shown that people tend to recognize people of their own race more readily than they do people of other races. This is probably a function of evolutionary risk avoidance. And bias, whether evolutionary or cultural in nature, isn't simply a tendency of Caucasians. A Chinese friend has told me that in China outsiders and especially non-Asians tend to be viewed negatively. I think that in the West, where we've tried in recent generations to observe our Enlightenment roots and see people as individuals rather than merely as members of "outside" racial or cultural groups, we've made a conscious effort to move past evolutionary bias. But achieving progress on this isn't something that will be easy, especially when much of the rest of the world preserves the evolutionary perspective and our identity warriors promote the concept of racialized victimization.