There is a natural scepticism about a migrant, whatever their origine, or whichever country they happen to be in. This natural misgiving can be greatly exacerbated if large numbers of migrants live in the same neighbourhood, not communicating adequately with the local population, and insisting on their often exagerated form of customs. Scepticism is nothing to do with racism, unless one accuses the Japenese of racism against the Koreans, the Pakistanis against the Europeans, or the Africans against the Chinese.

Jay Of Melbourne

Cherful, yeah the rate of interracial partnering cited in that study is high by world standards but it's still only 3.5% of White Australian and 0.4% of non White, non Indigenous Australians as a percentage of the whole.
It's true that the percentage is higher than the U.S for example,where the rates were less than 2% last time I looked.
I don't know what hope you hold out based on those figures, ethnic consolidation is what's preventing widespread conflict, assimilation is causing the problems.

Well, those figures don't sound that high for highest in the world, paints a pretty dismal picture for race relations world wide.

Refusing to marry outside one's tribe is, when all is said and done the ultimate act of racism.

When you say <that ethnic consolidation is what's preventing widespread conflict, assimilation is causing the problems.> Do you mean that because
at moment the different ethnic groups appear to be living together in cultural harmony that they are accepting each others culture and this is preventing widespread conflict.

This is true for the time being,but I think this is an uneasy truce with underlying territorial hostilities still below the surface.

Without bloodline assimilation , then dampening down differences is all we have to try to avoid conflict. The timeframe for how long this will be successful is not predictable. The two tribes in Rwanda were getting along well on the surface too, they were neighbours and friends apparently, until the numbers got too big and one tribe started to feel territorially threatened. It's the perceived territorial or (economic)threat that will always trigger the fighting.