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Yes, this is invisible until you’re immersed in a new environment. I worked on a Native American reservation for two years and although it is beneath the surface, prejudice is still very real today.
Not sure what you’re saying. Are you saying that all sin is mortal sin?Why. Racism is a sin. Pure and simple.
Do you have anything from the church fathers or elsewhere in Catholic teaching to back this up?It is grave matter to be sure. To look upon another creature as inferior simply because of their race is a violation of their dignity and an assault on the person as an image of God.
Thank you.CCC 1935 The equality of men rests essentially on their dignity as persons and the rights that flow from it:
Every form of social or cultural discrimination in fundamental personal rights on the grounds of sex, race, color, social conditions, language, or religion must be curbed and eradicated as incompatible with God’s design.
If done with intent and knowledge, racism very much can raise to a mortal sin.
It probably means a culture of discriminating which would pair with social discrimination, which I assume does not mean discriminating societies.For example, what is “cultural discrimination”? Am I supposed to be perfectly okay with Islamic culture, especially Arab Islamic culture when huge segments of it approve of violent jihad, religious discrimination, terrible treatment of females, virulent anti-Semitism and similar “cultural” things?