PREJUDICE does not die easily with history. There is a word, there is a color, which in the 19th century was known in Europe as something frightening: 'yellow'.

In 1853, Arthur de Gobineau published his 1,400-page tome titled Essai sur l'ingalit des races humaines, a treatise that set out to prove that man is not created equal. Racial roots determine quality. According to Gobineau there are three races that shape humankind and its civilization; whit