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Originally Posted by StarCrossed
One day though, 100's of years from now, everyone will have bit of every culture, due to racial mixing, and when you think of the States, you think of this new breed of people; the American melting pot. I wish i could be there and see something like that. A land of no racism or bias. Everyone will all be looked as a equal. But yeah, its another unfortunate reality off life.
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Hate to point this out, but this is pretty far-fetched. Maybe I'm just jaded, but I think "culture" is going to very persistent and there will still be the people who say "I'm [insert any race or ethnicity] and so will be my spouse and children" hundreds of years from now. Although, maybe there
will be a new distinct ethnicity of the US - that, I might believe.
This whole idea of a super-breed of homogeneous humans in the future is very problematic. For one thing, if we were to look at today's racial/ethnic conflicts, there are two things that could change: everyone's attitudes and everyone's racial-ethnic identities. To me, it's very clear that the problem is not that everyone is different, it's that some people don't know how to behave respectfully around different people and pretend that there are people that are more the same than others. (But even that assumption that somebody who is racially and ethnically Chinese is more like me than somebody who is white and American is problematic.) Doesn't it seem like a better utopian future to imagine involves changing people's attitudes about difference rather than waiting around for everybody to have so much interracial sex that we are all the same? (Besides, this whole idea of everybody being a single ambiguously-mixed race is the same kind of solution to racial-ethnic conflict that Hitler had, only more liberal in its application.)