@ OP

One word: Goobacks.

Because we shouldn't have to.

But hypothetically speaking, even if we did, racism or even different phenotypes wouldn't disappear. There'd still be relatively darker and lighter skinned people, various eye colours and hair textures, facial features, and there'd still be beauty standards saying "these people over here are better looking and more superior to you over there".

(September 25, 2016 at 12:41 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Because we shouldn't have to.

But hypothetically speaking, even if we did, racism or even different phenotypes wouldn't disappear. There'd still be relatively darker and lighter skinned people, various eye colours and hair textures, facial features, and there'd still be beauty standards saying "these people over here are better looking and more superior to you over there".

Never know if we don't try. I have done my part.

(September 25, 2016 at 12:41 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: But hypothetically speaking, even if we did, racism or even different phenotypes wouldn't disappear. There'd still be relatively darker and lighter skinned people, various eye colours and hair textures, facial features, and there'd still be beauty standards saying "these people over here are better looking and more superior to you over there".

^^^ This ^^^

(September 25, 2016 at 11:36 am)chimp3 Wrote: I am not saying everyone should but those that can should. Inter-racial hook-ups with resulting children in large numbers over a long period of time will end racism as we know it.

You mean like what happened in post-colonial Latin America? Yeah, I don't know if that had the result you're thinking.

(September 25, 2016 at 12:48 pm)chimp3 Wrote:

(September 25, 2016 at 12:41 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Because we shouldn't have to.

But hypothetically speaking, even if we did, racism or even different phenotypes wouldn't disappear. There'd still be relatively darker and lighter skinned people, various eye colours and hair textures, facial features, and there'd still be beauty standards saying "these people over here are better looking and more superior to you over there".

Never know if we don't try. I have done my part.

That's fine, I didn't mean "we shouldn't have to" to say that people shouldn't have interracial relationships, that would make me a hypocrite as I'm attracted to men of other races myself. I meant we shouldn't have to water down and erase our racial identities just to stop racism.

But what I said about inheritance holds, very few people inherit exactly 50/50 genes and physical characteristics from their parents, you can inherit a mixture of their features or even "hidden" features that you get from generations further back (like people randomly getting blue eyes in a family of brown eyes, like I did).

Genetics can be unpredictable and have randomness to them, you'll never be able to racially homogenize humanity by mixing everyone up, it doesn't work that way. What we'd end up with is a larger-scale version of what you see among black Americans (most of whom are mixed to some degree) with "team lightskin vs team darkskin".

(September 25, 2016 at 1:03 pm)Aegon Wrote:

(September 25, 2016 at 11:36 am)chimp3 Wrote: I am not saying everyone should but those that can should. Inter-racial hook-ups with resulting children in large numbers over a long period of time will end racism as we know it.

You mean like what happened in post-colonial Latin America? Yeah, I don't know if that had the result you're thinking.

The coloial times are over. We have mapped the human genome. Jared Diamond has published "Guns,Germs,and Steel". We have the knowledge and technology to overcome the past.

(September 25, 2016 at 1:07 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote:

(September 25, 2016 at 12:48 pm)chimp3 Wrote: Never know if we don't try. I have done my part.

That's fine, I didn't mean "we shouldn't have to" to say that people shouldn't have interracial relationships, that would make me a hypocrite as I'm attracted to men of other races myself. I meant we shouldn't have to water down and erase our racial identities just to stop racism.

But what I said about inheritance holds, very few people inherit exactly 50/50 genes and physical characteristics from their parents, you can inherit a mixture of their features or even "hidden" features that you get from generations further back (like people randomly getting blue eyes in a family of brown eyes, like I did).

Genetics can be unpredictable and have randomness to them, you'll never be able to racially homogenize humanity by mixing everyone up, it doesn't work that way. What we'd end up with is a larger-scale version of what you see among black Americans (most of whom are mixed to some degree) with "team lightskin vs team darkskin".

Perhaps we would have generations of people who feel a kinship with other races and cultures because they are kin.

I've had girlfriends from America -- one black, my first live-in; Spain; Guatemala; the Philippines; and England. I feel I've done my share already, but being the noble man that I am, I will happily volunteer my services in this cause.

(September 25, 2016 at 1:22 pm)chimp3 Wrote:

(September 25, 2016 at 1:07 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: That's fine, I didn't mean "we shouldn't have to" to say that people shouldn't have interracial relationships, that would make me a hypocrite as I'm attracted to men of other races myself. I meant we shouldn't have to water down and erase our racial identities just to stop racism.

But what I said about inheritance holds, very few people inherit exactly 50/50 genes and physical characteristics from their parents, you can inherit a mixture of their features or even "hidden" features that you get from generations further back (like people randomly getting blue eyes in a family of brown eyes, like I did).

Genetics can be unpredictable and have randomness to them, you'll never be able to racially homogenize humanity by mixing everyone up, it doesn't work that way. What we'd end up with is a larger-scale version of what you see among black Americans (most of whom are mixed to some degree) with "team lightskin vs team darkskin".

Perhaps we would have generations of people who feel a kinship with other races and cultures because they are kin.

That's mostly a geographical thing, isn't it? I was raised in a neighborhood that is 99% white (actual stat) I never befriended someone who wasn't white until college.