Even though races are genetically and socially different, why do people insist in trying to blend them?

Question

Why do people say "The only race is the human race" when the races of the world are genetically different, and have distinctive traits. People say that there are no differences in skin color, but look at the advancement of Europe compared to Africa. Also, take note of the extensive research of the Bell Curve and IQ variance across races. Why is it so bad to see the differences, and to want to keep the cultures separate? Race mixing and melting-pot cultures are just bad news, and destroy social identity.

Answer 1

When it comes to reaping the benefits of Affirmative Action, no one is interested in blending. They suddenly become "African-American" or "Hispanic or Spanish Surnamed". People tell their children who are 3/4 white to register as "Hispanic" and deny their white heritage. Their action speaks louder than their hypocritical words.

Answer 2

While it is true that the "melting pot" of modern society has made different cultures loose there identity and made induviduals just another face in the masses, you are tredding on dangerous ground by posting a question on here like that. But My great grandparents were very against "race mixing" they were Slovakian and they threw a fit when my aunt married an irish man. I really don't think that the "race" makes a difference, but the cultural heretage that is so improtant to induviduality needs to remain when raising our childern. I'm half slovak and part hungarian, cherokee, english, and irish, and growing up, being that my mom was full blooded slovak, she observed all the customs of her ancestry and now that she taught me and my siblings that it's up to me to teach it my children, along with the other cultures that they came from. Yes you may think that would be confusing but they should know what and where they came from, whether or not they are "mixed". And besides there has been so much "racial mixing" since the begining of time that I don't think anyone is really full blooded anything. And furthermore whether you believe in evelution or God or what ever didn't we all come from the same place?

Answer 3

Some people argue that racial differences are minor compared to the differences that can be found within one race. They say that race doesn't really exist. I do not really know enough about genetics to agree or not. I'm sure the IQ thing is untrue.

However, even if race does exist, there's no reason for separation. "Separate but equal" didn't work in the 20th century and it won't work now.

Different races sometimes develop their own subcultures, and it's valuable to have access to other types of ideas, ways of knowing things, and experiences. This exchange can happen through friendly interaction between groups.

The most important thing to remember here is that racial division and separation carries severe human costs. What about a nice man and woman who want to marry, but are forbidden to do so because of their skin color? Should they have to lose their soul mate? What about children who are friends of different races? Should they have to go to different schools? It's better for everyone if people are free to choose the people they will love, befriend, work with, and live near.

Answer 4

While humans have phentoypic variation, the genome remains almost identical across all living Homo sapiens. We are all one species (and thus we can all reproduce viable offspring with each other). An argument that can be (and is made) is that the different human races consitute different sub-species. The multi-regional model of human evolution which works on the premise that physical characteristics arose from geographic variation with limited (but still evident) contact to humans from other areas (which would have been necessary to maintain one species) would best support the racial differences theory. One who supports this theory would point to physical similarites between Neandertals and modern Europeans, "Java Man" and Modern Aborigines, etc. I don't believe that embracing difference is bad, however, it can easily take on an elitist and ethnocentric attitude which should be avoided.

Answer 5

The decision to blend races is not made by one person. Each person was a 'decision'. Billions of 'decisions' are responsible for the racial make-up of the worlds population. While your view is valid, apparently, not everyone agrees. The attitude of superiority and inferiority will not serve you well, if you means that you can't take each individual on thier own merits. Social identity evolves. I live in a mixed nieghborhood and manage to have good relationships with all types of people. Don't waste too much time worrying what color babies other people are having, because it is totally out of your control.

Answer 6

You have more in common genetically with someone from the other side of the world than you have with people of your same "race".

Race is intended to denote discrete basic subdivisions of the human species, equivalent to a subspecies of mice, within which there is little variability and among which there are discrete differences. These subdivisions do not exist objectively in the human species. Why? Two reasons: First, populations are adapted to the places they live. Since geography and climatic conditions vary gradually and continuously, so do the human populations occupying these spaces. And second, what Cole Porter called "the urge to merge" has its effect. That is, human populations interbreed with their neighbors: population A with population B, B with C, C with D. And of course, sometimes A with C or D - that is, with people from further away. All human populations have histories - they trade. None of them has been sitting isolated and untouched since the Pleistocene (and the failure to appreciate that, by the way, is one of the last great ethnocentrisms in modern science).

This is why anthropologists no longer talk about races; we talk about populations. We talk about local, fluid, bio-cultural units. Those are what are out there in nature, as far as we can tell.

Answer 7

By putting people from various races into the melting pot, governments aim to secure for themselves easy control over people. It is far too easy to control the same species than various ones. On the other hand, it might be easier for the people themselves to live unperturbed together since there would be no differences in their mentality and lifestyles once they have gone through the melting pot.

Answer 8

I am a Caribbean colored woman and I don't understand what you exactly meant to say.
There is only one race that is the human race. And it's true there is different between the races. But I think every human being is equal. No one is higher intellectual than the other. Yes we have different culture. We all are born in an other geographical place and we all has our own history. We eat different food, we have different interest. After all we all died and are buried. and that's why we all equal.

Answer 9

Why not try to blend them I think is the question? There is nothing wrong with people trying to unite different people together! We cant just all go out in the world and do our own things because then nobody would succeed! And its not bad to see our differences we see them every day but we also want to blend together somtimes! So race mixing is not bad news and it does not destroy social identity!

Answer 10

The reason Africa is less developed then Europe is just a matter of climate, nature (diseases) and money. Many Africans come to America and they are amazing. you don't know what your talking about, everybody can ave the same IQ it has nothing to do with race its individual to each person depending on family background, brain neurons that passed in genetics, individually to that family, with no connection to race. Some communities have the same skills cause they are brought up in the same environment and society rules.
So please stop racism!

Answer 11

While I believe that morally speaking all races or equal and deserve equal treatment, the reason people try to blend all the races together is to hide the fact that they are, in fact, racist. Just by blending all races, they are showing that they are racist. If nobody were racist, all races would blend together naturally and wouldn't need to be forced.