Are we really moving towards the banishment of racism or away from it?
In this era of hyperconnectivity and superfluous information feeds, there is literally more information pouring in to us than we could ever possibly process. Thus, we pick what we feel is either a) important, or b) entertaining enough to give attention. This has led to increased awareness of racial and gender inequalities, systemic injustices around the world, so on and so forth, which is a good thing. It is very important that even those unaffected by some of these injustices are aware of them. Naturally, one of the prevalent causes this generation has decided to rally around is racial discrimination. It happens around the world. Which is good as it teaches us that there exists races aside from which we grew up in. Literally a whole world of different culture, languages, food, etc! On an unrelated side note; It has always bugged me how some movies portraying interplanetary relationships (such as Star Trek) have generally shown worlds with a homogene...