puddingmouse wrote:
I remember reading a while back that some thinkers in Brazil encouraged mixed race marriages in order to lessen the impact of racism and I think in some cases for eugenic reasons. From the very early days interracial marriages were thought of as a good thing. When eugenics became popular in Europe there was even talk of breeding a mixed Brazilian super race with all the genetic heritage it had available. Of course, racism still exists in Brazil like it always has done, in its own subtle ways - at least that's what I've read. The idea still intrigued me.
I also remember reading that the Baha'i faith promote mixed race marriages for spiritual as well as social reasons.
I can see positives and negatives with this:
Positives
Mixed race people are attractive
Hybrid vigour
Interesting cultural synthesis
Negatives
Deliberately promoting it is still a form of eugenics
People will still be racist, even if the whole world was mixed. They'd be racist about which % of what you are mixed with.
People often date within their race for cultural reason, so it would be hard to persuade the majority of people to have mixed-race relationships
So whilst I think it's a good idea, I don't think it will be too difficult to promote as a social policy. I also doubt that it would have the benefits some of its proponent claim it will. I especially doubt it will foster world harmony. It might make society a tiny bit less racist, but I don't know.
Positives
Is not have
Negatives
well, will depend of ingredients that you mix but i believe that when mix two distant races, we destroy recessive positive advantage traits like high intelligence, in my opinion, is a recessive traits.
The majority of mixed people here, is not pretty and is not smart. The real hybrid vigor happen in a minority of people and many collateral effects, in other words, you submit people in a great risk but obviously, the pure race is very problematic also. Great risk to sacrifice majority of people that will born to a minority of people, with less higher intelligence traits.
Embranquecimento
brazilian ''eugenic'' politic based in civilize the country, because in XIX century, minority of population was white and the majority was the black slaves and mixed people, intermediary betwen the luso elite and the slaves. By mass european immigration, specially of the italians, portugueses and spaniards between 1850 to 1950. ''Eugenic'' brazilian (joke) believed in a ideia that ''white genes'' was dominant than ''black genes'' (lack of genetic knowledge obviously) by ''racist'' conclusions and created the mixed-race culture.
When whites marry other non-whites in the near future, the blacks specially, will disappear of the population because the ''white genes'' are dominant (and superior, 0% of genetic knowledge) than ''black genes''.
Result,
Brazil