You mean discrimination based on race as we know it today (AWKT)? Even if the concept of race AWKT is tossed out of the picture through indiscriminate mate-seeking, there’s no guarantee that another concept of race will not emerge to replace it. I’m sure you’ve heard the cliche that race is a social construct. Well, it’s true. We can hope that race-mixing will help unite us as a human race, but as long as the potential for any differences exist–whether they be religion, weight, class, attractiveness, gender, or skin color–the potential for discrimination remains the same. Unless a revolution occurs in our hearts and minds.
That said, I see no problems with race-mixing. Going against the grain of nature to NOT mate interracially will be harder and harder to do as society becomes more global and race AWKT loses its hold over us. Right now, IR shouldn’t necessarily be encouraged, but as someone implied earlier, it shouldn’t be treated like a controversy, either. People shouldn’t be made to feel bad about any of their *relationships, whether they be same-race or IR.
there are genetic advantages, too, in widening the gene pool. It certainly shouldn’t be discouraged.
I think what the OP is missing is that it usually isn’t racism but that whole “culture conserving” thing that prevents interracial couples from getting together. You see it in a lot of traditional Asian families and Jewish families, and to a lesser extent black families.
I had to pretend my mother was jewish to date this one girl back in high school.
But yeah, I think we’re moving more and more to not caring about all that, which is great.
You should encourage people to fall in love based on the person and not the color.
In certain places I’ve lived there’s still a lot o’ preachin’ about inter-racial marriage being a sin against God. Preaching the opposite isn’t going to help, though.
Just a quick question for the OP. Assuming you think it SHOULD be encouraged, what specifically would you recommend to be done to encourage it? Tax credits for interacial couples? I’m not being facetious-- is there really anything realistic that can be done to encourage it?
BTW, the only position I would have on this subject is that it should not be DIScouraged.
But then you’ll have to do something about climate and environmental conditions — the things that caused racial attributes in the first place. Otherwise, in another thousand generations or so, it’ll all be right back here.
The thread interacial dating - good or bad? immediately came to mind. Before it was derailed, we touched on some biological points. Much of the following is taken from my original comments in that thread. My apoplogies to Libertarian if it sounds like I’m trying to steal his point.
I don’t believe that humans will ever inter-breed to a degree that all factors of “race” will disappear. It is to be expected that racial lines will blur due to the ease of air travel between separate geographical populations, but I would expect that this would stabilize over time and regional differences in appearance would reassert themselves. These may not take the exact form of white/black/brown/yellow/red of today, but the little I know of population mechanics tells me that there will be still be some difference in regional “plumage” (I know the word relates to feathers, but I like to use it in these types of discussions because it denotes differences that are almost completely superficial) . Simply put, what I see is new “racial” divisions arising millenia from now, rather than a homogenization into one phenotype. The divisions probably won’t be radically different, but who knows? Maybe there will be a group of blonde, blue-eyed black people dominating the population of the Caribean.
What we have to keep in mind is that the gene pool is a living breathing thing that changes over time and evolves, even in us supposedly superior humans. It is almost impossible to extrapolate where exactly we are going as a species and the changes in plumage that will occur. We know that in other animals differences still abound in overlaping populations, and humans aren’t any different. I do not believe it is even possible for the entire population to develop the same skin, hair, eye color, and skeletal structure. Thus geograhically based racial differences will always be with us.
Likewise, the cultures of geographically distinct populations will also evolve differently, regardless of the interactions between them. India has had cultural contact with China for thousands of years, but the two cultures did not homogenize into one. Thus the modern cultural contact between all nations through global media is not going to produce a global monoculture.
That’s simply not how homo sapiens behave.
The challenge is to develop our society so that it does not care about the physical and cultural differences among it’s members and is tolerant to the physical and cultural differences between ourselves and other societies.