Those wacky mud ponies.

If I were you, Rarity, I wouldn’t look up at the sky with an open mouth after hearing about peeing pegasi…
 
Just sayin’.

@Japanese Teeth  
It really was more of a general xenophobia than any sort of species-specific bigotry; it actually makes sense that people who evolved from herd animals would be inherently suspicious and unwelcoming of outsiders who show no interest in being a part of the community.

@TheDog  
Just to nitpick, they definitely weren’t racist; they didn’t even realize that Zecora wasn’t a pony, so they weren’t really discriminating by race or species. They were prejudiced, yeah, but it was based on how they perceived her actions, not because of the fact that she was a Zebra.

Ry: Ready, AJ?  
AJ: Does the pegasus pee in the cloud?  
RD: What was that?  
AJ: Er. Nothing. Earth pony humor. You wouldn’t understand.

Wellp, guess now we know what happened to ’er parents.

@Tetrominon  
ingnorance is just another word these days having been so repeated and misused like “freedom” or “progress” as to become almost meaningless and improper to reflect the perspective Applejack showcases above. Narrow mindedness and or close mindedness would not work either. Useing them to describe ALL genral statements one makes on a perspective with no malice or sense of superiority would ironically be only misleading from the context.

@BigMax  
Ignorance can be innocent, indeed.  
You can’t blame kids to ignore things. They just know what they’ve been taught.

@Antonyourknee  
@BigMax  
“Ignorance”.

@Antonyourknee  
Yes, I’d say malice is a fundamental part of racism. There’s no such a thing as “innocent racism”.  
No malice, no racism.

Is she really being rascist? she’s not claiming herself to be superior to others,and in fact states she would even do something she thougth any pony race did. She conveys a mixture of negative and positive sterortypes based in nativity of the world yes but rascsim? Maybe by a extended defination but certainly not in the sense that anyone should be associating it with the word to describe the klan or the holocaust.  
Our language need a word to describe assumptions of others based on Inate traits of their origins but not done on the contex of maliciousness.

ogod that look of honest innocence

@Background Pony Number 17
 
To be fair, everyone in Ponyville except Apple Bloom were incredibly, incredibly racist toward Zecora.

 
I guess it had to start somewhere.

Welp, this is the first time that I’d say racism is cute.

Awwww, Applejack is so adorably innocently racist!

That filly Applejack is cute beyond any reasonable limit.