Modern racism does not operate with the concepts of ‘race’, but with the concepts of ‘incompatibility of cultures’, ‘protection of indigenous cultural values’, ‘clash of civilizations’ etc., and it considers cultural diversity within the state as solely a threat.
Back in 1954, an American psychologist, author of the Theory of Personality Traits, Dr. Gordon Allport, wrote that Cultural Racism arises when "one group declares its claim to determine cultural values for the whole society." Such an approach implies not only ethnocentrism, i.e. making the culture and heritage of the main group the central value of this group, but also imposing this culture on other groups.
Modern racism… considers cultural diversity within the state as solely a threat.
The opposition of "indigenous" peoples to "non-indigenous", based on cultural arguments, has played a crucial role in this discourse. This means that the concept of ‘race’ is replaced by the concept of ‘culture’, but all other components of racial theory remain unchanged. Exactly this problem is the most acute in Europe today, and it became so the minute many politicians and parts of society began to consider it politically correct and refused to accept that this caused the problem of discrimination against minorities.
