Certainly long before the Louisiana purchase, and other westward expansion. Russia is less of a prison of nations that the US is.

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      The concept of racism predates racial categorization? Since race is a social construct (no discrete biological or genetic categories) how is that possible? Society had to construct it first before using it as a tool.

      Are you confusing xenophobia, bigotry, tribalism and ethnic persecution with racism? They are not the same thing, racism is a subset of the others and a new invention of modernity and the scientific community of the developing capitalist states