Well I don't really think that racism is so bad that we should all mix just that there would be no "pure" races anymore. In many multiethnic countries like Brazil today it's better to be lighter skinned even for mestizos because it's associated with higher social position.
And to me that sucks, if everybody became equally brownish in Brazil, they wouldn't have a color based discrimination problem there ( which doesn't make a utopia of any country, but still it's better ). Of course it's always wiser to just fight ethnic prejudice, but sometimes it simply doesn't succeed. It is reasonable to put the word "pure" in citation marks, because the very concept of race is flawed. In terms of genetics, humans differ between the races less than one chimpanzee tribe differs from it's neighbour ( altough it now looks that Whites and Asians have traces of cross breeding with Neandertals, but still evolutionary details like this are probably irrelevant in the wider view ). There isn't a common genetic print ( appart from pigmentation and skull shape ) that for ex all Africans in Africa and Americas would share, thus making "Black" in someway a usefull category in terms of science.
Even if we mix all races there will always be some differences, perhaps some new "races" would be formed and in the end it wouldn't changed anything.
How could there be ? if you have a limited number of "colors" then when mixing it all equally, it's not like some totally different trait will appear. They will tend to just blur with one another to the point of the least common denominator.
How? It's not like all of a sudden all white women would find black partners and white man asian women and asian men whatever's left? It doesn't work like that. Even after thosands of years significant part of society wouldn't mix much.
Ok, I did not mean like everyone on the planet, sure, some countries will always be more attractive than others for emmigrants, but wherever they appear, there will be mixed marriages, at least in further generations ( because the older ones tend to stick to themselves ).
Anyway you can't hate someone if you have a few or none contacts with him.
As political life in our country has showed for the last twenty years ( altough I guess recently it has been going down ), it is perfectly possible to have antisemitism in a land with only about 10 000 large Jewish population.
Edited by chris w, 11 May 2010 - 02:31 PM.