Why there are racist people?

I suppose you have to be racist to explain it, and I cannot. I am not sure that what you are describing is racism : it looks more like parochialism. There is nothing wrong when people love their birth place, but a superiority complex is definitely wrong and people are generally doing this complex when they feel not strong enough to compete with newcomers. You should tell them that you are as much proud as them of your roots and your accent -- if you have one : I would not like to lose mine, it is a part of myself -- to make them think a little about their attitude.

Maybe because they have some past bad experience with the person who has another ethnicity and made him/her traumatic and so he/she get to generalize all of the people who had the same ethnicity with the person he/she have had a bad experience.

Well, if you believe in the Bible, then we all were supposed to come from just two people, so we were all created the same and have just evolved differently over time due to our surroundings (climate, terrain, etc.). Therefore, we are all equal, even though some people appear different than others. If you believe in evolution, then again, we all shared the same common ancestors, but evolved differently, so we should all be equal regardless of our differences. In fact, every one of us is different than everyone else, even identical twins that share the same DNA, it is just that some differences are easier to spot than others. If we could all remember this, then perhaps there would not be such racism.

It is truly discouraging that there are still so many racist people in the world today. i believe that is because people do not take the time to learna about and accept each other. if people are different, an opinion about them is made without even trying to understand that person at all. Everyone should be given a chancew to show the kind of person they are.

Bad experiences from that certain race may be a reason for some to really come to feel that way towards others,but they shouldnt really generalize the whole race of someone who did that to them. There are a lot of reasons why.

I think it's what a single person do, when you showed someone that you're like this person then it will reflect to all of us(same race). So when other races learn what that person did they begin to hate that race.

It all comes down to this- We are all human. People who are racist think they are something very special, far above it all. Delutional big time! And after hundreds of years of these delutions it is very hard to change. It is the same as the gay bashing. People who are different, have a different culture, look different, etc.

there are different stories as to why people becomes racist. bad past experiences or they just don't really feel superior over others. i try to avoid people having such mind frame although sometimes we cannot if they are colleagues. we just to bear with them.