Lets take America assume that white males decided to mix with the largest minority groups; Hispanics and Blacks. There would definitely be an increase in biracial children male and female.
The biracial females are the only ones who can the whitest children as they can mix with white males whereas biracial males can only mix with non white females.
After a few generations, will the women of this biracial mixing be considered white in comparison to the white women of today? Will there even be a white race if there are not enough white men to pass on genes to their offspring?
I assume recessive traits (blond hair , blue eyes) will be bred out of the gene pool.
Things like blue eyes and blond hair would be less common, but by no means gone. All it would take is a mixed grandchild with 2 brown eyed parents each transmitting recessive blue eye genes from their white fathers. Bingo- blue eyed mixed grandchild.
The bigger question would be where you draw the line on White/Hispanic?
Plus, I suspect that a lot more Eastern European mail-order brides will come over for the more racist white guys.
How come the hypothetical is if there are no white women? Why not the other way around?
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Does your hypothetical “disappear” the very large number of phenotypically-caucasian, culturally Western, “Hispanics”? Or are we “not white” for the purposes of this experiment?
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Eventually there will be identified some population group whose sociocultural characteristics correspond to the “dominant” ones, and those who diverge significantly from it will be seen as “minorities”. Maybe you will not call it “white”, maybe we’d call it “New Americans”. There will still be some of them complaining that just because he’s New American does not mean he’s privileged.
I agree that the definition of who is “white” would probably change. Are Italians and Greeks “white”? Many Americans with Italian or Greek heritage nowadays think of themselves as white, but some people would disagree - and in the past they were not really considered white by many people.
I would not be at all surprised if at some point in the next few decades, Mestizo Mexicans become absorbed into the American idea of “white” (or in some way grouped together with what we think of as white people today, even if it goes by another name). As more and more people descended of Mexican immigrants become increasingly assimilated into American culture, and as the population of current-day white people shrinks as a percentage of the population (which appears likely if demographic trends continue), I think it will start to make sense to both Mexicans and white people to consider themselves part of the same group.
Skin color is a trait influenced by multiple genes, by the way, so it’s not like the genes for light skin color would disappear just because they would likely not be very often expressed among the first generation of interracial offspring. I mean, you can already see this in the huge variation of skin color among black people (or, at least, people we think of as black in American society). I suspect that over several generations, you would see the light skin colors emerge again. It’s not like we would all end up one uniform skin color.
I think encouraging people to be curious and ask questions is a way of combatting racism.
I think many people with racist prejudices would see how silly it is if they understood better how arbitrary races are and the genetics of skin color.
Maybe there is a point I am missing, but after about 25 years, there will be no difference in the “color” of the newborn babies, because all, boys and girls alike, will exhibit the same mix of ancestry. The number of “white-looking” adult males between 20 and 50 will be the same as the number of “white-looking” females in that age cohort. They can (and no doubt will) go right back to white-looking people discriminating against not-white-looking people.
I was born a blond-haired blue eyed Celt, but I’m descended from an African Slave. My Mother’s hair is dark brown, thick, wavy and “rough.” Mine is fine, smooth, and mostly straight (and has darkened to light brown over the years). In Summer time, when my Mom had a tan, folks would always assume she was our nanny.
So yes, some of those white men being young at the time, and later mixing with the bi-racial granddaughters of their peers, would produce some “apparently” white children. Mind you, we still carry many traits from each of our ancestors, and will never be completely of “one” race. But then most people aren’t; and EVERYONE has black ancestors.
Nope. At the time when the white women all disappeared, the genes for those traits would all become significantly less common, but they’d still be present in the remaining men and in the women who were “minority-enough” to remain. Whatever that remaining proportion is for those genes, it would then remain approximately that same proportion into the future. Genes being recessive doesn’t mean they’re going to disappear. In fact, to the extent that dominance or recessiveness makes any difference to the persistence of genes, it’s the other way around: A detrimental gene can stick around longer if it’s recessive (and, correspondingly, a beneficial gene has more chance to disappear if it’s dominant).
. . . and anybody who says that is more interested in strong-arming enforcement of political correctness than in learning with exploratory questions about how things work the real world, and/or has no curiosity.
Seriously – do you deny that some people are whiter than others, and that is genetically determined, and there are social barriers based on that perception? What, exactly, would you call “white men” and “white women”?
There would be a temporary demographic crisis as there would be millions of men who can’t find partners. Maybe increased violence until more are imported. Widespread depression and economic disruption from missing loved ones and workers. Huge vacuum in the teaching and nursing fields. Colleges would have way less traffic.
The Democratic party would crater, the U.S. becomes even more right wing.