You may be interested in this blog post, by Eric Raymond:<p>&quot;Preventing visceral racism&quot;
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;esr.ibiblio.org&#x2F;?p=5001" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;esr.ibiblio.org&#x2F;?p=5001</a><p>In it he reports a similar &quot;natural&quot; reaction to some racial group that he&#x27;d never met before. But his theory is that simple exposure is enough for people to move past this, as long as they don&#x27;t construct rationalizations for their initial feeling of &quot;something isn&#x27;t right here&quot;.<p>Kind of ironic, as he says a lot of things that many, myself included, would consider racist, but you never know, he may be onto something.