Early national-mission thought lacked racism because its colonies were empty

Evidence

What separates them definitely from later racists is that none of them was ever seriously concerned with discrimination against other peoples as lower races, if only for the reason that the countries they were talking about, Canada and Australia, were almost empty and had no serious population problem. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 479

Categorization

• QUESTION: Arendt seems to argue racism needed a population problem to emerge. Worth chasing whether she holds this as a general condition.