We have strong norms against overt bigotry now, but actual racism is very common. Go but two generations back, and white supremacism was still a governing ideol

We have strong norms against overt bigotry now, but actual racism is very common. Go but two generations back, and white supremacism was still a governing ideology in most industrialized democracies. The modern world is not immune to racism; rather, the invention of "races" is an artifact of the development of nationalism in the 17th through 19th centuries, and so racism is a feature distinctive of the modern era.