Why were ancient people less racist than people today? Even when

>>2452410
>ancient
>less racist
>never as mean

We were genocided by invaders and exiled literally for 3 millennia. I don't think ancient were as accommodating as you would like to believe.

If anything, a handful of their descendants are nicer comparatively.

People lived in smaller communities, meeting fewer people from outside them. Of course they would be more racist.

But it's not the same racism comparable to what you're probably talking about, that's different

>>2452410
Yes, because "race" didn't exist in the Romantic, 19th Century way we conceive it now. Take the Greeks for example. They recognised ethnic ties and kinships, but ultimately they cared more about their own city-state and family than they did for people of the same race. You hated people because they didn't belong to your community, not because they were born into a different race.