Will Humans Eventually Be The Same Race?

[okinawagojuryu]

Arnisador ,

I cant remember the name of the movie off of the top of my head right now . I wish I did , I was just talking to a friend of mine about it last week . Imagine the world w/ nothing but beautiful woman like Halle Berry , or Mariah Carey walking around ? Somebody please wake me up , I'm dreaming again , lol .

David

 

[MisterMike]

Without Ugliness, how do you discern Beauty?

 

[okinawagojuryu]

That is a good question I could not answer .

David

 

[okinawagojuryu]

The movie is called The Time Machine .

David

 

[arnisador]

The movie is called The Time Machine .

H.G. Wells? But they had two races, right...above and below ground?

 

[Kane]

Define race...
There are a million ways to define race. There a philosophers who debate about the word race all the time.
As for people all looking the same. NO. Unless of course you wipe out vast parts of the population.
I suppose that racism would end if race ended. Of course I'm assuming you are using race to inicated skin color and features. But there will allways be people who judge other cultures or subcultures as inferior. This is part of humanity.

I knew this question would arise, so I'll describe what I mean by race.

A race is nothing more than a division within a species based more on differences in superficial features rather than genetic features. All humans today are a decedent of a few thousand people 60,000 years ago during a close run with extinction. Meaning all people today are of the same subspecies and no human population currently known has been isolated long enough to be considered different subspecies.

So in a sense the term race is a division within a subspecies, more or less like the different breeds of dog. Race is actually based more on facial features rather than skin color.


Here is a chart to understand more on what I mean;


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/Human-phylo-tree.png

[font=&quot]There are many ways to classify the races of the world, some use the 19th century system but it really doesn't matter. How I classify the many races that are all created equal;

Indigenous Europeans: The majority of people who originated from Europe and Russia. Often called the white race and belongs to the Caucasoid family of races.

Indigenous Middle Easterners: The majority of People who originated from the Middle East, North Africa, and the Indian Subcontinent. Often called the brown race and belong to the Caucasoid family of races.

Indigenous Oriental Asians: The majority of people who originated from Central Asia and Southeast Asia such as China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, ect. Often called the yellow race and belongs to the Mongoloid family of races.

Indigenous Americans: The Native American people that made up North and South America before the West came. Often called the red race and belongs to the Mongoloid family of races.

Indigenous Africans: The majority of people who originated from Sub-Sahara Africa, Central Africa, and South Africa. Often called the black race and belongs to the Negroid family of races.

I don't see the problem with categorizing people in different races; it doesn't change the fact that we are all equal and all human beings. So no offense if that list offended anybody.

Anyway back to the original question, would mixing of the major races bring more peace to the world or is discrimination based more on nationality?
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[Marginal]

I think humanity will destroy itself first or be destroyed. Assuming that the human race will live on for countless thousands of years, I still don't think we will be "one" race. If nothing else, as humans begin to interracially mate and merge features over the centuries, other factors in region specific factors will slowly bring distinct features in other humans. The humans on Earth may slowly start to look different than humans on Mars, or the ones growing up on a space station, or a station under the sea.

Unless there is a sharp decrease in the human popluation, I think the human popluation is too large to totally merge all features as well.

Somehow I doubt humanity's stupid or smart enough to ensure 100% eradication. Nature's indifferent, so we can't count on that either. I think civilization's more likely to fall into a lesser state well before the species vanishes entirely. (Oh, and this is in topic, since a fragmented world of smaller civilized areas etc would lead to greater geographical concentration, less travel thusly descreasing the odds of the elimination of superficial traits.)

 

[RandomPhantom700]

People from many different backgrounds are mixing together and if this keeps up do you think there will be only one human race? Will the elimination of different facial features and skin color really end discrimination or racism? Or is racism based more on national origin? How long do you think it will take for all humans to be members of the same race and what will this new "superhuman" look like? What do you think?

Race is based on social definition, not really biological. Thus, even if our skin colors and facial features begin to merge enough not to be distinguishable, so long as people operate on some "us-vs.-them" mentality, there will always be some distinction on which to base our opposition. The blending of skin color and facial features just means that the traditional distinctions are crumbling.

I recall a time magazine cover that presented a computerized rendering of what a person who had global blood looked like. I gotta say, I couldn't make any distinction, but she was prety hot. :supcool:

 

[OnlyAnEgg]

H.G. Wells? But they had two races, right...above and below ground?

Yeah, the Morlocks were the not Halle Berry ones

 

[BlackCatBonz]

Race is based on social definition, not really biological. Thus, even if our skin colors and facial features begin to merge enough not to be distinguishable, so long as people operate on some "us-vs.-them" mentality, there will always be some distinction on which to base our opposition. The blending of skin color and facial features just means that the traditional distinctions are crumbling.

i completely agree with this. there will always be discrimination based on social classes.
unless the world was to accept a completely socialist method of operation breaking down monetary barriers, you will always have the distinction of upper, middle, and lower class citizens.

 

[okinawagojuryu]

Arnisador,

Yes , I had forgot there were actually two races in the movie , Eloi & Morlock , I believe.

David