The OP is moot. In today’s social climate, if one chose to live alone on a desert island, they would be called racist.
I’m sure you can find someone to call this person racist if yoú dig down in the pile of norons. However, IMHO (which is where this thread belongs) a person is a racist if and only if he or she believes that some people are inherently inferior to other people based on their race.
So now we just need a definiton of “morally wrong” and we’d be all set. IOW, subjectivity can’t be avoided with this kind of question.
:nod: Don’t really see why I need to add on, but I might as well.
I’d say the OP’s example is not racist, perhaps Biased, but I don’t think that’s something that’s inherently wrong. It’s just cultural preferences. Now if their biases caused her to act negatively towards other cultures and cause some sort of harm or negative behavior towards them, then it’s starting down a slippery slope. But until that point, I’d say nope. She’s not a racist.
I don’t think that it’s at all racist to dislike, say, rap and sagging jeans. But it is at least slightly racist to label rap and sagging jeans as part of “black culture”. Affluent blacks or those who live in suburban or rural areas don’t generally partake of that culture, and low-income whites who live in the inner cities generally do partake of it. The primary determining factors of that culture are geography and economic status, not race.
I can relate I hate *igger culture too.
Another factor is how accurate this assessment is. If you’ve lived in an area for years and decide you don’t like it’s culture that is one thing. If you drive past a “for rent” sign and don’t call because you saw some black people nearby, that is another.
I lived in Oakland for a while, and when people visited the first thing I always got was a surprised “Hey, you live in a nice neighborhood.” What they meant was they didn’t see any black people hanging around. I happened to live in a mostly white area. What they didn’t know was that my neighborhood was super high-crime (we were running a mugging a night for a while) and the “sketchy” black neighborhoods they drove through to get there were actually quite nice places to live.
You obviously have not been in my suburb.
I like white chicks more than black chicks. If someone wants to call me a racist, screw 'em.
It’s not a matter of avoiding subjectivity, it’s a matter of reducing semantic confusion. In my experience, most people understand what it means to ask whether an action is morally wrong, even though it’s difficult to explicitly define “morally wrong” and obviously people may disagree about whether an action is immoral or not.
On the other hand, asking whether something is “racist” is much more ambiguous, in my experience.
My opinion only.
All I know is one night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble.
The way I see it, it’s racist if:
You dislike a certain cultural element - say, hip hop - that’s OK
You associate hip-hop with urban blacks - still OK, if a little oversimplified
You then avoid associating with all urban blacks without first finding if they’re actually into hip-hop - somewhere there, you’ve crossed a line into mild racism. Not the kind that’d make me not want to know you, but certainly the kind that will make me tease you about it.
Is it racist to live in a gated community? Is it racist to avoid certain areas (for your own safety)? I like when certain people throw the term “racist” around-as if everything you do (in an effort to protect yourself) is somehow bad.
It is clearly racist to prefer French dressing over Italian, Greek, or Russian. It’s also blatantly racist to use Aunt Jemima’s syrup or Quaker Oats.
Another slight detour from the OP. For years I’ve found it frustrating to try and help customers who don’t speak English. I questioned how much effort I should make when they can’t explain what they want or formulate a question. I asked a fellow employee from Guatemala if he thought my frustration was low level racism. He said he didn’t think so.
In the spirit of racial equality I try to have sex with women from as many different ethnic backgrounds as possible. 
I call it around the world with around the world.
It depends. WHY do you live in that gated community ? Is it because you don’t want to associate with anyone of another race ? That’s racist. Is it because you don’t want to live next to anyone with a smaller bank account ? Not racist.
As for “avoiding certain areas for your own safety”; well for one thing that would depend on why you thought it was dangerous. Assuming that black people = high crime is indeed racist.
I think it would more aptly be identified as “prejudice”. We all have prejudices… Things we pre-judge as preferable or not preferable.
Or, more commonly, to preemptively avoid criticism of their position on race matters by labeling any such criticism as a false accusation of racism. I’ve seen that sort of “you think I’m racist because you’re a PC moran” nonsense derail threads much more often around here than I’ve seen actual false accusations of racism.
I think they were derailed through cooperation by morans on both sides. 
I mostly agree with this line of thought here. But even if someone is an urban black who likes hip-hop does that necessarily make them a degenerate of society? No. While there may be certain aspects of cultures we don’t like, does that mean we should make broad assumptions about everyone who may be a slight part of that culture? It’s fine if you’re not a fan someone’s culture, but that does not mean you should write the people completely off.