Jalpha wrote:Is it wrong for me to be concerned that Caucasian genes will make up only a small proportion of what a future blended human consists of?
Yeah, because it already does make up a small portion. Less than a third to be exact. You're worrying over a glass of spilled milk when a nearly full carton is already laying on the floor busted. Just counting India and China, Mongloid genomes make up more than 2/5 of the world population, and that's not counting other countries that are primarily this genome or people living in other parts of the world. It's probably about 1/2. That pushes Caucazoid genomes to around 1/4.
Funny thing is that because of almost 2000+ years of intercontinental trading, genomes are scattered all over the place and nobody is pure blood. And if you believe the flood story, we all have the same father, anyway.
shubla wrote:MightySheep wrote:Another thing I would add, that people often forget when they talk about how America is founded on immigration etc, is that America had mainly European / Irish immigration!
This.
There is difference when immigration happens from well-established top quality countries. Than when it happens from countries with absolutely shitty things.
Our Irish immigrants? Ireland was a shit country then and poor as fuck from wars with Britain and potato famine. Same with the Italian immigrants. People forget about the huge number of Chinese that came over in the 19th century, too, and the huge numbers of tribals we forced to come over. How we only have a 10-15% "black" population is beyond me, unless we're only counting those that know they're black. How many "whites" have African blood in them because someone had a baby with their black slave and it looked white enough to pass by as white? (See "Roots" author Alex Haley--he found his white relatives and more than a few nearly had heart attacks at finding they had a black cousin.)
People don't immigrate when they have a decent job and can feed themselves. There's a very small minority of rich immigrants. All the rest are dirt poor and eating out of garbage bins. There are exceptions when even those that do have some measure of success leave countries, such as war and political upheaval.
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