Original post by Raiden10That's absolute crap. I feel slightly inebriated just reading it.
Forgive me if I misread you but I can't infer anything else from your post, so here goes...
If people suddenly became as likely to go for someone of a different race or different country (e.g. there will be genetic differences between poles and italians, english and german, even english and scottish to a lesser extent), as they would be to go for anyone else, everyone would not suddenly become beige.
There are not that many genes controlling skin colour. I believe it's somewhere in the teens, or something like that, according to current scientific knowledge. What that means is, it can change very quickly even between close relatives, due to small genetic differences. Arriving at a uniform skin tone in families is unlikely, not to mention in the country's ENTIRE POPULATION.
The human mind and human societies, for whatever reason, is/are obsessed with skin colour. However it's not genetically that important and isn't really very interesting when looked at phenotypically. Presumably the difference in skin tones evolved to deal with the sunburn/rickets dichotomy. Ho-hum.
You can't really have this debate if you are pig-ignorant of basic genetics. People assume you can, but you can't. I'm not a genetecist or even a biologist, but I'm not completely ignorant.
I think the ignorance, the real pig-ignorance, kind of lies in seeing everyone as having their identity defined by a fraction between 0 and 1, where 0 is pale white and 1 is dark black. Then the beige thing comes from thinking that if everyone mingled, you would get everyone 0.5 (beige). It's so much more complicated than that. Skin colour is not that important, and you shouldn't see things in those terms.
This applies to the OP, as well. The original question of this thread is sufficiently stupid that it's impossible to write a sensible answer.
I believe in strength in diversity, and having people isolated in separate races actually results in *lower* diversity, not greater. So yes I am all for mixed-race relationships (and people!). Ideally, people would just marry and have kids with whoever they fancy the most, irrespective of race or prejudice, or geographical barriers.
Things that would not result from this (and you are stupid if you think so):
- everyone being beige
- a reduction in diversity
- the eradication of your genetic identity
- the eradication of your culture
Also, the term mixed-race is *very* limiting. Diversity is not just a black person marrying a white person. It's not just a chinese person marrying an indian person. If you have belgian, russian, italian, and spanish grandparents, say, that's just as diverse as being mixed race, even though it's pretty european, and you are fairly likely to be white.