CyborgUprising wrote:
I am 100% for the mixing of races as long as it is done in a responsible manner. What I mean by responsible is that each party to the relationship has an understanding of cultural differences and potential problems that may arise from blending the races. Besides the obvious taunting, medical conditions are a real concern, since some conditions such as Tay-Sach's are more prevalent among the Eastern European Jewish (the Ashkenazim) population, while sickle-cell anemia is more common among African-Americans/blacks. Receiving bone marrow transplants is also further complicated by mixed ethnicity, since a donor would likely have to match those same ethnic profiles to be a "best match." Some groups (Ashkenazi Jews in particular) tend to have unusual antibodies in their blood as well, making transfusions sometimes difficult. Medical concerns should be taken into consideration in any case, not just involving interracial reproduction (I do not ever want to contribute to procreation for many reasons, but medical reasons/genetics are definitely on the list).
Im not out to either encourage nor discourage mixed marriages, but this stuff about "the medical issues of mixed marriage" defies all logic.
If you think of getting a genetic disease as a negative version of winning the lottery then the medical effect of marrying within your own race is like betting on the same number in the lottery all of the time. Marrying. out of your race is like betting on a different number each time you buy a lotto ticket. The odds of 'winning' (getting the negative payoff of an illness) are exactly the same either way because a dice has no memory.
If you marry within your own group then your children get a double dose of the genetic quirks of your own group. In a mixed race marriage you get half of the wierdness of one group and half of the quirks of the other- adding up to- the exact same amount of quirkiness as the products of a non mixed union. It makes no difference to the amount of overall 'dangers'!
If your so worried about your children getting organ transplants then why not take this 'logic' of yours to the conclusion?
Why not marry your own first cousin (or even your sister), and then persuade your children to marry each other?
That would go alot farther toward guaranteeing that your descendants will get a supply of genetically matched organs donors for each other than just marrying unrelated folks of the same nationality as you would!
The trouble is is that that would probably create more genetic problems for your descendants than it would solve! And marrying within your own ethnic group is just watered down version of the same inbreeding practice- if anything it creates more problems than outbreeding not less.