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people should marry and have babies with someone they love for who they are.......not for what they are or their skin color
this whole race mixing thing is talked about tooo much
lets just let people marry who ever they want and have babies for all the right reasons
It will be interesting to see what happens with certain genetic disorders such as sickle cell anemia and Tay-sach's disease. Will these genetic disorders which have been historically associated with a specific race or ethnic population be decreased in incidence of full expression, increased, or unaffected?
I would think it would be decreased because it's that way with dogs. Pure breds are more prone to certain types of ailments because it's being passed down by both parents, but if the dogs are mixed, the chances of them inheriting those ailments is less. From what I've read, mutts tend to be healthier as a result.
I'm guess it works the same with other animals, including humans.
I could've sworn there was already another thread similar to this. Anyway, like someone else said. There's only one race:human. Ethnicity are just minor differences people choose to see and identify themselves as.
Who cares what we look on the inside, ethnicity and heritage goes beyond looks. If you want your children to know of their ethnic heritage, teach them.
People's genetic characteristics have evolved to adapt to the environments that their ancestors moved into so there is a reason for the 'races' to exist (before someone says 'there is no scietific basis for race', let us agree that populations have evolved to organize into populations that share suites of adaptive genetic traits that can be pigeonholed into visibly recognizable genetic groupings known commonly as 'races').
It is true that 'races have been mixing for eons' as a poster mentioned above, but never on the scale we see today what with the ease of movement for populations and the sheer size of the populations that exist to be moved. What once happened as a trickle is now a tidal wave.
I'm not making a judgement on whether it is good or bad but is certainly has never happened on this scale before so there is no telling what social, cultural, or biological ramifications it will have.
It is true that 'races have been mixing for eons' as a poster mentioned above, but never on the scale we see today what with the ease of movement for populations and the sheer size of the populations that exist to be moved. What once happened as a trickle is now a tidal wave.
I'm not making a judgement on whether it is good or bad but is certainly has never happened on this scale before so there is no telling what social, cultural, or biological ramifications it will have.
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I think it has to do with technology. Travel has been made easier because of it. People are living where they want to live, and intermingle with other ethnic groups that centuries ago probably wasn't a possibility.
Like you said, our physical characteristic are based on evolution and adaptation to our environment. Our environment (including socially and culturally) is changing and it's opening up the "mating" pool.
As for the biological ramifications, what will be will be that's why I say.
Those physical characteristics that defined different "races" was due to evolution and adaptation. It's now the 21st century and many of that physical characteristics that's common in specific "races" are basically useless now.
Hold on a second and think about that question before you automatically dismiss it as a racist question.
Several years ago I had to take a class in "sensitivity" for my job in corrections. One of the case workers (a Female born in Porto (sic?) Rico) made the statement that when her Grandchildren were grown that the races would be so mixed from interracial marriages that there would no longer be easily identifiable races but everyone would be a light brown color. I had to think about that for a while but after contemplating the idea it made sense.
I see examples of that every day here in Lincoln, Nebraska. The typical African/American is a totally different complexion than the recent immigrants we have from countries like Chad, Somalia, Nigeria etc. Those recent immigrants are a pure racial strain as a rule. The typical African/American that is a descendant of slaves has mixed blood for the most part. Japan is a good example of a population with little racial mixing.
If we lose that "uniqueness" of racial purity it will be lost forever. The variety of the Human Race has always amazed me and the mixing of Races has never bothered me. However I am not sure if having a "Homogenized" population is really a worthy goal. Compare the variety of the human races to a field full of flowers. Would we appreciate flowers nearly as much if they were all one color? I think the analogy can be made with the Human Races.
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I think it depends on the person. I know that a person of a different race came onto me and I wasn't interested and he got upset. I hate it when people do this because then someone else whom feels obligated later because that is not how the felt it was an auto reaction then the next thing you know they start doing it. Why get upset let it be naturally.
If the person likes you they like you if not let it be. It has nothing to do with color. It's in the bible as to why we have different languages yes we speak the same now adays but don't push a person to do something they don't wanna. Next thing you know that person whom was accused is now the perpetrator of pushing the next or themselves.
I have also had people of the same race to which I felt the same way. Whats the difference?
From experience. "The mixed races" is a well-being for short term. They will be morally, physically, are mentally exhausted. Their place will be occupied not with the various. And so on a circle.
From experience. "The mixed races" is a well-being for short term. They will be morally, physically, are mentally exhausted. Their place will be occupied not with the various. And so on a circle.
Can somebody translate this? Or has a machine already translated it?
once we get all mixed up and have equal amounts of blackness, whiteness and brownness we have to close our borders so no more pure black ,white , or brown people immigrate to the US and crash our "perfect people" party
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