How to butterfly Nordicism, scientific Racism, and the attitudes that lead to apartheid/segregation?

I don't think you can remove the idea (phenotypical differences are obvious, and people always tend to assume they are superior to others), but it may be possible to make racism less influential if other ideas become (or remain) dominant. Frex, in the French Empire, racism always struggled for primacy with a cultural self-definition that, while no less exclusionary and discriminatory, allowed for greater mobility. Similar ideas existed elsewhere, too, though they tended to take more of a back seat. Strengthen such beliefs - e.g. through an unbroken strand of Enlightenment optimism or a stronger tradition of universal Christianity - and you could have a different world.
 
Change history so that the more advanced civilizations (from a techological point of view) are never (that is, not at any point in history) the countries situated in Northern Europe? For example, if the Roman Empire had survived in its fullest extension, centered in the Mediterrean Sea, and had industrialized, you would never have had Nordicism nor the type of racisism we know of IOTL.
 
Nordicism had it's origins in a Frenchmen named Arthur de Gobineau. He literally wrote the book on Nordicism. I suppose if he dies, that could be butterflied. It seems to be something unique to him and him only.
 
Nordicism had it's origins in a Frenchmen named Arthur de Gobineau. He literally wrote the book on Nordicism. I suppose if he dies, that could be butterflied. It seems to be something unique to him and him only.
Scientific Racism could be discredited earlier, if Africa wasn't colonized and instead the great powers traded with the kingdoms, in return for an exclusive trade zone/sphere of influence. Like that story Malé Rising, by Johnathon Eldestein.
 
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