"Racism" means different things to different people. In the states it is most commonly used to refer to biases and/or prejudices based on naive presumptions about genetics. Europeans seem to more commonly use it in the sense that Americans would use some derivative of "ethnic." The "problem" is wide spread around the globe. No one group or area has a corner on the market. I've always thought it was petty and stupid. Saints and sinners both come in all kinds of people. My life would be a lot duller and boring if I only ever knew or loved people "like me."