How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference Highlight

we might use proxies such as asking people whether they would be happy if a close relative were to marry a person of Black or Asian background. In 2017, over a fifth of White Brits answered that they would mind. This is a racist view, but when that question was asked in the equivalent survey in 1983, the answer was more than 50 percent. The same question was asked in 2017 (but not before then) about the prospect of a Muslim spouse, and the answer was more than two fifths of people would be bothered.*