Is dislike a culture acceptable if you dislike its behavior? Sure!
Is dislike a race acceptable if you dislike that race’s behavior? The problem here is that there often is no behavior typical to any race the same way that there is behavior typical to cultures. Culture drives behaviors much more than race per se does. So the answer is no because races generally don’t have typical behaviors in the first place.
What is ok is to have a general dislike for a culture and everyone in it who practices that culture and is immersed in it. For instance, one could say, “I don’t like ghetto Blacks. I do not like the way they act.” Everyone knows what that group of people is and unfortunately, they do have some pretty typical ways of acting. You could even dislike that whole group of people called ghetto Blacks.
But there are probably large numbers of Blacks who are not ghetto at all, so you would not be able to dislike the entire Black race under this rule. This rule isn’t going to allow anyone to dislike the Black race because the Black race doesn’t really have a common culture in the US, surely not an reprehensible one.
The Indians are way worse because Indian culture is all-pervasive and it seems to suck up everyone in India into it and warp and distort them. So you could say I hate Indian culture and I don’t really like the people who practice that culture. But many Indians have pretty much dropped out of Indian culture. This is especially true for NRI Indian emigrants and expats.
I have a physician who could not stand Indian culture so he left India to come here for a culture he thought was a lot better. Though most Indian immigrants are pretty wrapped up in their weird, unpleasant culture, most Indians born here in the US are emancipated from Indian culture. The US-born Punjabis I meet are as American as I am. A lot of them act like the surfer-stoner cool guys I grew up with. I have no idea whether they retain any Indian culture, but they definitely seem to have chucked all the backwards and barbaric aspects of it. Maybe they retained some of the good parts, I have no idea.
US born Indians, at least the Punjabis, seem to assimilate rapidly and very well. Why this is is not uncertain.
It is going to be tempting for racists to us the notion that you can dislike a culture for its general behavior and anyone in it who follows the precepts of that culture as an excuse for the racism and hatred for entire races on generally dubious grounds. After all, the racist typically says that all of the hated group act alike. But that is typically not so. Blacks don’t share a common ghetto culture. Hispanics do not share a common barrio gang culture. Muslims do not share an ISIS extremist Islam culture. The ones I meet here in the US are quite pleasant and behave very well.
So while racists may try to use this rule to justify their racism, it usually will not work because culture is not monolithic, many cultures are heterogeneous, and many people abandon the more backwards and obnoxious aspects of their culture.
Sure it’s ok to dislike a group of people for their specific behaviors that you view as obnoxious, poisonous or nasty. But you have to dislike only those persons in that culture that are wrapped up in their barbaric system. You have to pardon all of those who have freed themselves from it.
