I think that transcontinental imperialism is actually what originally created racism.
People from a rather advanced, in terms of economy and technology, civilisation, went to Africa, saw people hunting with wood and stopne spears and living in houses made of grass and clay, and they misconcluded.
The belief of arrivers, thay they follow the only true religion, while the locals didn't only helped the prejudice to develop.
Poles had practically not heard of African people, before Konstanty Jabłonowski adopted a Black child who was given excellent, international education, and became a general and Kościuszko's Insurgency hero. And later on, who would we despise?
Brilliant Jazz musicians? Or now, professors, doctors, actors, engineers?
All there was, we were used to people of different nations, and looks, because hundreds of thousands were immigrating into the country where they were given equal rights or even special priviledges. Jews had special priviledges. Tatars were given nobility status, and rights equal to the local nobility.
My great grandfather had a Tatar wife, I'm partly Asian myself. A friend called me "Chinese" in primary school.
There's a lot to be repaired in Poland, I'm angry about how *****y many things are in here everyday, but in terms of racism, I think we're not worse than anyone. And if all that I said, doesn't convince someone, then at least please, don't take me as a racist, for I'm not. I think racism is nonsensical, I'm mixed race myself, I don't care what race are people of my acquintance. I also wouldn't mind marrying a woman of different race. In fact, I even like the looks of pretty Black or Asian women better, than the looks of White girls.