Racism comes in many forms and is justified by all sorts of theories.
However, those promoting these theories always aim to assign values to
the different characteristics that people have in order to humiliate
others and overvalue themselves. Discrimination is the behavior that
follows from this ideology. Someone is treated worse because of his
actual or contrived differences and the assumption that they are worth
less than one’s own.

Accordingly, the perception of distinctive human characteristics by
racists always has a goal. Often they describe noticing these
differences as natural, something a child might do out of pure curiosity
when seeing differences such as skin color or hair texture. They
therefore deny that children only notice these differences without
placing values on them — if they are not affected by ideology. Racists,
on the other hand, use them to depreciate others.

I certainly should not have to explain here what is good about
exchanges and getting to know each other. But perhaps I can make a new
breakthrough by discussing a type of learning that goes beyond the
multicultural festivals of the nineties, which still exist today. On
such occasions people of different ethnicities and cultures are
sometimes put on exhibit. It’s emphasized that you can meet the
foreigner, the exotic person. You can hear Native drumming or sit in a
real teepee. In short, you can satisfy your curiosity. I am for the next
step – for an exchange between equals. The first step should be to
recognize the equality of the other, and then to look at the
differences. Why? Because curiosity wants only satisfaction. Interest
arises when there is an exchange among equals, and this requires
recognition of equivalent worth.