Is it a mortal sin to find other races less attractive than one's own race?

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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.
 
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.
Do you have anything from the church fathers or elsewhere in Catholic teaching to back this up?
 
We each have our own personal taste, what is pleasing to my eye in a partner may be ugly to you.

I would advise against writing off an entire race, millions and millions of people, but encourage you to consider individuals.

My best friend since childhood is an incredibly beautiful woman, heads turn when she walks in a room, even today in her middle age. Had I been presented with 1,000 men and been told to pick the man who would be her husband, knowing her preferences in dates, I would be sure I could do it. Thing is, the man she married, happily, long time marriage, would have been literally the last man I’d have selected for her. He is the complete opposite of her “preferred look”.

Keep your heart open, meet people as they come into your life, you never know when you will meet a person who is not at all what you expected, but, they are the best spouse material you have ever known!

“Racism” means that you think that someone is less than you simply because of their race.
 
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.
 
Unless a person has experienced what I call “soft racism” (you may not have a KKK tattoo or go to “I hate XYZ people” rallies, but, you see it in the eyes of people and the subtle actions, lack of basic respect, etc.) it is very easy to think it does not exist.
 
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.
Thank you.

The Catechism here is quoting from GAUDIUM ET SPES. Chapter 2 discussed violations of human dignity at length.
 
Exactly. It’s the daily little things - him being consistently mistaken for the waiter when we eat out or are invited to weddings, selected for security screenings at borders or on trains or in department stores (when we are together and nobody asks me anything), not being believed when he says that yes, the white lady by his side is indeed his wife, being yelled “nee hao” by random people in the street (or worse, at church) when he isn’t even Chinese, being on the receiving end of comments about Japanese people when he isn’t even Japanese, and I could go on and on…
 
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Because of my very visible disability, I understand. Waitstaff, other people in service positions, will speak to whomever is with me and completely overlook me. I work at a parish, have been in this parish for 20 years, yet when I answer the office door with a “Good Afternoon!”, parishioners will give me a shocked face and walk past me without a word or nod and on in to find another staffer.

Let’s not even talk about the hiring/job world out there.
 
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?
It probably means a culture of discriminating which would pair with social discrimination, which I assume does not mean discriminating societies.
 
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