'Racism' is a word meant to get people's hackles up and has little to do with labeling music from various and sundry non-English speaking peoples so folks can find it and buy it. Bogus point, good troll.
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I don't think 'Little Boxes' bashes people's dreams. It bashes the society that makes people believe the ultimate dream is to live and think just like everyone else. It bashes the society that punishes people for being different in any way. 'Those people' aren't buying folk CDs, they're buying rap and pop CDs, and if it's not heard on the 'little box' 10 times a day or more, the people who are afraid to risk society's disdain aren't listening.

'World music' is a huge box, painted with bright colors, and one has to rumage around a lot to find what they like.

People can dream about their little box house in the suburb and their kid's little box university education. Societies - economies and education systems - make it damned hard to dream of anything more. They also make it damned hard to love, or even find music that isn't cookie-cutter standard so it fits in a little box. World music doesn't fit in those cramped quarters. I can't say I like most of it. I have to listen to a lot to find something I like. That's the whole point though: I get to sort through it all and choose what I like instead of picking something from a little box.

Dreaming of getting a little box life is't the problem. The complacency that allows people to believe that, once they've gotten to the box, that's all there is and they should be satisfied, is a spirit-killer. People should be able to attain their little box life, or their little box music, and keep dreaming and looking for something they can love.