[hioqvuag] Racism is not racism

Hypothesize that most racism is not people discriminating simply against appearance but discriminating against ideas, habits, customs, and thus broadly, culture.  Appearance might be a indicator of the culture, but if people are given evidence that a person's culture is not that which their appearance suggests, then they quickly drop their racism against that person.

The problem is that discriminating against culture is broadly considered acceptable: discriminating against a person for what they do versus who they are.  However, we will never solve the problem that manifests as racism without solving this underlying problem of discrimination by culture.

Consider an affirmative action application form which asks not for the applicant's race but asks aspects of culture: What are your customs?  What do you consider acceptable?  What do you like to do? Then, enforce a policy to admit at least a minimum number of each category of answer.

However this will be extremely difficult as a huge amount of the customs people care strongly about -- are willing to discriminate about -- have to do with sex.  Imagine how controversial an affirmative action policy will be which makes sure to admit both types of people according to their responses to the question: Do you think consent is necessary for sex?

Another difficulty: Does the following lead to a logical paradox when turned into an affirmative action policy? The actions and customs that define a culture are the other cultures ("not one of us") it discriminates against.