I think people don ' t take racism seriously anymore because they don ' t know what it looks like . A Sikh guy getting shit because a news article is calling him Muslim and then someone saying his turban looks like a target for lead and explosives is racism . Cut and dry . When Hindu and Sikh people get attacked for being Muslim , its revealing about the underlying causes for Islamophobia . There is a massive difference between the way people address problems in Catholicism , for example , and the way people address problems in Islam . Nobody will try to differentiate the nuances of religion or even personal beliefs when they discriminate against you , not to mention most Americans I ' ve met can ' t tell the difference between Sikh , Hindu , and Muslim names . It ' s all just foreignlooking brown people to many Americans , especially down south .