This rotten disease wasn’t common in the Prophet’s (pbuh) time at all. Remember the first man to call the Muslims to prayer, was a black Ethiopian by the name of Bilal ibn Rabah (may Allah be pleased with him).
Islam was sent as a religion for the whole Mankind, not just one particular nation or tribe. As Muslims we need to unite, the reason we are in such a state is because we are divided. United we stand, divided we fall. How true this is for us Muslims.

So let us stop putting Country, race, ethnic origin first, and Place Allah and Islam there in our hearts and deeds. We are Muslim first, everything else pales into insignificance.
The drive that causes asabiyyah is the feeling of being better than others, and that others are at a lower class. So, the person that has this feeling of asabiyyah thinks so highly of himself and of those to whom he belongs, and thinks that other people are NOT as good as his own people.
This kind of thinking is backward, and it is in fact a kind of arrogance that comes from the mentality of Shaytan, which led him to disobey the command of Allah when He ordered him to prostrate to Adam. Shaytan said, “I am better than him, You created me out of fire and you created him (Adam) out of clay.” The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) warned us when he said, “No one enters Paradise if they have in their heart a atom weight of arrogance.” The Prophet (pbuh) defined this arrogance in two things: Rejection of the truth and looking down on people. Many scholars consider Satan to be the first Racist.

Unfortunately this Asabiyyah has infected the Ummah. How often do we enter a new Mosque, and are totally ignored or our Salaams are never returned? Or in a gathering, where everybody is talking their own language and excluding those that don’t understand? Muslims are now grouping and discriminating against each other based on Country,Politics, Language/nationalism!! Islam, under the unifying call of La illha illa Allah was meant to extinguish any of this.
*In another hadith Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said:
“An Arab is no better than a non-Arab. In return, a non-Arab is no better than an Arab. A red raced man is no better than a black one except in Taqwa.
Mankind are all Adam’s children and Adam was created out of clay” [Al-Bukhari and Muslim, on the authority of Abu Musa].