Many people are under the impression that eventually there will be no race. By this, it is implied that we are headed towards a world of slightly tan people everywhere. This would be accomplished by mixing every race for many generations so that there would be no discernible characteristics between races. Is this a good thing?
I'm of two schools of thought. The first of which is that observationally, I've noticed that people of similar races have a tendency (though it is not ever a rule) to date within their own races. This could be due to family pressure or just general comfort given their desire for familiarity. It doesn't appear as though we will be headed that way in the near future.
The second of which is the cultural void that would be left by the creation of a single race. We assign many positive cultural characteristics to individual races, and these would be diminished and eventually forgotten if a single race were to overtake the multitude we currently have.
Is it our duty to create equality and a single race? Or are we meant to continue to perpetuate our current norms?
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