Why not call it racism?
South Africans probably can identify Nigerians on sight as a separate race of negroes.
Cf David Reich, Who We Are and Wwhere we Came From
Reich makes it seem like many prehistoric populations not only were different from each other, but also were widely divergent, aws divergent as he likes to say as Europeans are to East Asians.
That is far from the whole story, baby.
Plenty of these populations were less divergent from each other, such as South African negroes and Nigerian negroes, but who each nevertheless considered themselves separate races, and who considered the other enemy people.
The best and most well known example of this kind of thing among nevertheless genetically closely related groups is that of American indian tribes, who could identify other tribes on sight, and whose name for those other tribes was such terms as "the really bad people".
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