This isn't a problem we have as a species. It's not biological, it is cultural. The racial categories we use today were created in the 17th century to justify the white supremacist apparatus of slavery and colonialism - prior to that, people tended to categorize humanity by tribe, ethnicity or religion rather than superficial physical traits. Asian people, for instance, didn't see each other as the same "race" until white people came along and assigned them that categorization.
You, I and everyone else are stuck in this way of thinking because we've been so thoroughly indoctrinated into a system of white supremacy which permeates the entirety of Western culture, it isn't even noticeable, like we're in the Matrix. It persists because it's useful for keeping the power centers that benefit from it entrenched, and everyone else divided.
We can move on from it, but I think the first thing we need to do is recognize that it isn't inevitable.
> Asian people, for instance, didn't see each other as the same "race" until white people came along and assigned them that categorization.
Do you think Asian people would have not come to the same conclusion, even if white peoples hadn’t said so first? I tend to think it was somewhat inevitable that Chinese, Korean, and Japanese people think of themselves as having more in common with each other than with French or Mexican people.
Sure, but the racial categories do vary considerably around the world.
And even in a single location, if you look back in time, you can see how people got categorized shifting. People used to insist Italians weren't white here in the US.
You, I and everyone else are stuck in this way of thinking because we've been so thoroughly indoctrinated into a system of white supremacy which permeates the entirety of Western culture, it isn't even noticeable, like we're in the Matrix. It persists because it's useful for keeping the power centers that benefit from it entrenched, and everyone else divided.
We can move on from it, but I think the first thing we need to do is recognize that it isn't inevitable.