|
Post by mike2 on Mar 26, 2005 22:06:30 GMT -5
I think if all the races mixed the best thing to do would be to forget race ever existed at all. We would all have an equalized appearance until the mechanisms which found races noticeably start back up again.
|
|
|
Post by nordicyouth on Mar 28, 2005 16:20:20 GMT -5
It will never happen, even if there are chaotic social upheavals. Phenotype will always exist as a division, much as class and gender will. Arguably, ethnoculturalism will prevail also, as not only are ethnocultural conflicts on the rise, but are increasing their share of total world conflicts to make up the vast majority of them.
As monoculturalism, even monoracialism is prevailing in the 'Third World,' multiculturalism, miscegenation, and fear of the loss of phenotype and/or national identity are primarily a 'Western' phenomenon. Given the increasing social tensions, the fad of multiculturalism and miscegenation will soon succumb to the trend of protectionism. And I will not even begin to speculate on the consequences...
|
|
|
Post by gelaye on May 2, 2005 6:13:25 GMT -5
i think if all the races mixed they would look like eurasian (mixed with cambodian not north asian) and with curly mixed negroid hair
|
|
|
Post by Salvador on May 4, 2005 12:19:05 GMT -5
Racial variation is created when different populations are i. genetically isolated to a significant degree, allowing drift to alter frequencies and blocking the spread of new mutations ii. subject to different environmental pressures (natural and sexual selection) If all races merge, then factor (i) will not operate due to geography. It is possible that new genetic isolates (based on class?) may be formed. According to this logic. Is it possible that the most dominant species in a certain climate will eventually absorbe all the other sub-races ? (that is ofcourse if no racial mixing will occur for centuries) I always thought that this occured in certain regions of India. They all look related. In Europe there is a lot more facial diversity. Even amongst individuals from the same country or region.
|
|
|
Post by KLI on May 6, 2005 4:32:58 GMT -5
I think if all the races mixed the best thing to do would be to forget race ever existed at all. We would all have an equalized appearance until the mechanisms which found races noticeably start back up again. If we all mixed, racial classifiers would find new ways to seperate people into different groups. Thats pretty much how it is now. We are all related anyway, yet we are all occupied with race, what makes you think it will be different if we all just mixed ourselves up?
|
|
|
Post by SensoUnico on May 6, 2005 8:06:21 GMT -5
What? This is a human biodiversity forum which I guess got started because humans in various countries and continents do not look like each other. It unfortunately is the way of humanity, the dividing people up into like and unlike groups. When Catholics go to church they do not go to the church of another denomination even if it is closer to where they live. Australians overseas gravitate to places where other Australians live or congregate. It is the same with all nationalities and ethnic groups. Chinatown, Little Italies and so on. In the States no caucasoid person wants to be the only White in the school and the same with black Americans in wholly White schools. There are clubs wholly for Jews or teenagers or women or left-handed lesbian negro Welsh speakers. That is life. When the races mix, there will be new races some may in minority cases, recapture the old races but most will be quite different. Either way, prejudice will not go away because everyone looks the same.
|
|
|
Post by henerte on Aug 11, 2005 14:44:34 GMT -5
I think that when all races mix we will look like that: Any comments?
|
|
|
Post by Funky Kong on Aug 11, 2005 15:49:57 GMT -5
If all races mixed, wouldn't they look almost completely East Asian? As they are the most numerous on Earth.
|
|
|
Post by phrost on Aug 12, 2005 18:23:23 GMT -5
With the current direction in genetics in the future it wouldnt really matter. We can recreate ourselves any way we want to. If you want natural green hair you probably can get it. South Korea has recently clone a human embryo; we already have genetically modified food why not people too?
I find gene therapy to be a totally fascinating area of genetic research. It means even as an adult you can genetically alter you own genes to that of something else. I think the human genome project was one of the big accomplishment in genetic research next to the discovery of RNAi (Interference RNA) and cloning of course.
Our future would be super mutants! ;D
X-Men anyone?
|
|
Matthew
Full Member
Village Idiot
Posts: 230
|
Post by Matthew on Aug 13, 2005 21:18:40 GMT -5
I sincerely doubt there will be a huge racially mixed world. Especially since the rise of energy is rising. No more cheap oil = no more economic opportunities from people of other nations. Since everything is reliant on cheap energy, and Green Technology is not capable of sustaining huge amounts of travel nor the population we have now. Take into consideration the economic system and it's faults as well. The Indians, and Muslims in England, the Asians in America, and other groups will be assimilated but it will be a limited assimilation in which there will be no big difference in appearance or DNA to others in their respective nations in the long term.
|
|
|
Post by greatness on Aug 13, 2005 23:44:59 GMT -5
Either way I don't think Human chracters will change. There will always be the bright ppl and those dumbasses who come post here just to annoy ppl.
But having said that I agree that either when oil runs out (granted no new energy sources are found) that races will again separate. Or... That a caste separated system will emerge. Not because black ppl are dumber, but because they are at such a developmental disadvantage that I cannot perceive them catching up in the near future.
Or should a volcano, like the one a Yellow Stone happen to blow, or a huge tsunami (much bigger than the one that the world witnessed in December), something HUGE which totally eliminates some populations, then the future of the human race would be very interesting indeed...
|
|
Face
New Member
Talk to the HAND!!
Posts: 16
|
Post by Face on Aug 14, 2005 4:16:32 GMT -5
all race mixing, now that is interesting but the thing that will distance people is country. so racism would be a thing of the past. the culture will dictate how things are perceived and people will adapt to it as usual.
|
|
Matthew
Full Member
Village Idiot
Posts: 230
|
Post by Matthew on Aug 15, 2005 3:33:32 GMT -5
Either way I don't think Human chracters will change. There will always be the bright ppl and those dumbasses who come post here just to annoy ppl. But having said that I agree that either when oil runs out (granted no new energy sources are found) that races will again separate. Or... That a caste separated system will emerge. Not because black ppl are dumber, but because they are at such a developmental disadvantage that I cannot perceive them catching up in the near future. Or should a volcano, like the one a Yellow Stone happen to blow, or a huge tsunami (much bigger than the one that the world witnessed in December), something HUGE which totally eliminates some populations, then the future of the human race would be very interesting indeed... The future of humanity is interesting regardless, things never turn out the way they seem. Whatever the future holds.
|
|
Bryce
Full Member
Posts: 206
|
Post by Bryce on Aug 26, 2005 10:28:45 GMT -5
With the current direction in genetics in the future it wouldnt really matter. We can recreate ourselves any way we want to. If you want natural green hair you probably can get it. South Korea has recently clone a human embryo; we already have genetically modified food why not people too? I find gene therapy to be a totally fascinating area of genetic research. It means even as an adult you can genetically alter you own genes to that of something else. I think the human genome project was one of the big accomplishment in genetic research next to the discovery of RNAi (Interference RNA) and cloning of course. Our future would be super mutants! ;D X-Men anyone? Gene therapy will certainly bring remarkable improvements for patients who suffer from metabolic diseases, or to healthy persons who wish to improve their physiologic traits (immunity, resistance, strength, tissue-healing speed, etc.) but IMO limited modifications concerning the appearance. For instance, replace all the "brown eyes" genes by "blue eyes" genes in a person's concerned chromosomes, so what? What will happen to the iridal melanin, will there be a melanin dispersion and deposit into the cornea, lens, vitreous body? Will the eyes change at all? Remember that but for a single and unique case in the annals of medicine of Levobunolol-induced iris depigmentation, a considerable proportion of light-eyed patients treated for glaucoma develop a permanent iridal darkening, despite their light eyes genes. It seems that once melanin is well installed in the iris, it's quite hard to expel it. Another example: height. When all the growth plates are ossified, no way to restart them, even if you replace a person's "short stature" genes by "tallness" genes. Yet another example: baldness. If the hair follicles are not only dormant, but dead, bringing "lasting hair" genes will be useless. Illustrations are rife.
|
|
|
Post by phrost on Aug 26, 2005 19:20:16 GMT -5
It depends on how the various gene works. Of course gene therapy can still play a vital role in the type of children one wants.
I suppose we can always replace/subsitute different body parts with artificially grown human parts. As long as the brain and the nerves are not damage but its still a long way down the road.
Not to mention nanotechology.
|
|