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/^t/Secondly, the most unsettling and delicate aspect of the problem of equality, or rather unequality, is the racial and religious persecution. While any kind of overt hostility or oppression provokes disapproval and the majority of enlighted modern liberals take a dim view of racism and intolerance, the numerous admit to a 'slightly' racial tendencies. Not everybody would, in fact, dare to commit a "petty crime" of calling in public a Black person the Niger or harassing his family but scarcely any individual would hesitate to show favouritism to the people of his/her race. Is not it true, however, that racism and discrimination begins when one evaluates oneself as the better while not simultaneously maintaining that somebody else is worse? From whichever angle we would scrutinise the problem in question it is evident that people always tend to compare and label themselves and there will always be some hierarchy, no matter what criteria we would establish as the basis for the hierarchical structure.