In recent decades, racism was considered by many to be in sharp decline across the world, partly because expanding knowledge of the human genome demonstrated that all of us share almost exactly the same set of genes.
A broad international consensus emerged during the 20th century that discrimination based on race, open or concealed, was odious and should be banned. After World War II, it was declared taboo in most democratic nations, and pushed to the margins of most societies, as a characteristic of mentally-unbalanced persons.
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