Whether race "exists" or not is not an argument I personally would spend too much time on. These things have a tendency to get all convoluted and wrapped up in semantics, word games, and braniac contests. My laser focus here is on racism, since the thread title is "Was Gandhi a racist?" Whether race is a social construct, whether it doesn't exist, whether there's some other spinoff I don't know about...... racism exists and is very real. Racism to me is the dislike and/or broad-brushing of a group of people... call them what you will.... based on appearance or origin. "I don't like black people"...... "Muslims are all bad"....... "Japanese are the most intelligent"...... all those phrases smack of racism. They generalize, based on limited experiences and sometimes just hearsay. Racism or prejudice, if you prefer, isn't the end of the world. It just needs to be acknowledged. As people become more educated, more mature in life, and more traveled.... they tend to lose some of their racist beliefs. With some people it's harder, because they come from very racist backgrounds. If your father, grandfather, great-grandfather etc. were all racist, it's a bit more difficult to shed those beliefs. The Jackie Robinson movie "42" had a pretty good scene in it with Jackie Robinson getting yelled at by racists at the ballpark, with a little boy unsure as to what to do, until he sees everyone including his father yelling at Jackie. At that point the kid starts yelling too, though probably not sure why.