What wars started because of racism?

Answer 1

Sadly racism has been a component of nearly every war in recorded history. Sitting here thinking about it I can come up with at least one example from every war I can recall:

• The Crusades - Christian vs Muslim (not strictly racist but close)
• French & Indian War - Colonists in conflict with Native Americans as NA's were displaced from their land.
• US Civil War - while not about slavery as commonly thought (rather state's rights vs. Federal rights), the issue of slavery did become part of the debate early on and later with the Emancipation Proclamation.
• WW1 - troop segregation in the US Military, mistrust of ethnic Germans in the US
• WW2 - more troop segregation and the Final Solution thing (Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Ukrainians, etc.), Japanese treatment of prisoners, US Internment camps.
• Serbian-Bosnian war - Christian vs. Muslim (still close)
• Rwanda
• Sudan
• Chad
• Congo

It is important to note that race is a term as applied to humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) that is eugenic or separatist in nature. It is synonymous with stranger awareness, differentness, or stranger danger. In essence, it is a nonsense term as applied to humans. There is no race in human taxonomy (see human taxonomy below). The idea that humans are divided into three distinct groups is archaic, and belongs only in the Middle Ages where it originated. That it remains and holds on is more a commentary on the narrow mindedness of the mass uneducated. Modern anthropology has distinguished far more than the Japhetic three (Caucasian, Oriental, and Negroid) distinctions, yet all are still Homo sapiens sapiens, as are the extinct (or assimilated) Neanderthal and Cro-magnon. Recent discoveries in the Georgian town of Dmanisi of 2 million year old fossils of five contemporary representatives of human ancestor display features not commonly seen together. Dmanisi-man represents some of the most complete finds of human ancestors ever recorded, and may lead to the re-writing of our ancient past.

It might take another 2 million years, however, for the masses to recognize that race is a manufactured concept, designed to focus on differences and foment division, rather than celebrating similarities.

Answer 2

WW2 was full of racism