I had this conversation...

[lance gt]

with a bunch of people at a party. With the increase in interracial marriages and births, we wondered how long it will take before a child of a pure mixture of all races is born, and what would that child look like? What's your thoughts on it? The first true Child of the Earth.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Back around the turn of the Millennium, Time magazine did an article on the 21st Century American. Some feller did a statistical analysis of the 'races' living in the U.S. and their percentages of the population. Then he took a bunch of faces of each group and using 'morphing' technology, blended them together to get an average. Of course, our ideal of beauty is that average so he got some knockout faces. Then he morphed them together according to their percentage of the population and got The Face of the Future. And being a guy, he made it a girl. The face is approximately Polynesian, with straighter nose and slightly thinner lips. Beautiful. The hysterical part is that the magazines central office was immediately flooded with phone calls, e-mails. letters, etc. all wanting to know who "she" was. When told that the image was just a computer simulation, some of the callers threatened to sue! You might be able to find the picture with a google search.

 

[Handley_Page]

with a bunch of people at a party. With the increase in interracial marriages and births, we wondered how long it will take before a child of a pure mixture of all races is born, and what would that child look like? What's your thoughts on it? The first true Child of the Earth.

Child of Earth or Child of the Americas ?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Ah, here we are . . .



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[voluptuary_manque]

Child of Earth or Child of the Americas ?

Given that the U.S. is already the most multi-racial/cultural society on the planet, the difference between the two would be minimal.

 

[lance gt]

Maybe we should see if "She" is actually out there and have her DNA tested to see if she's a true mix. If there is a guy pic, let's find them both. Would they constitute the creation of a new race, or would there be no difference or distinction at all?

 

[Handley_Page]

Given that the U.S. is already the most multi-racial/cultural society on the planet, the difference between the two would be minimal.

Not knowing the 'racial mix' in the USA does limit my options, but I cannot shake the feeling that there are a lot of the 'chinese' types on this planet and that may alter the face a touch.
Just a thought

 

[bronzeage]

with a bunch of people at a party. With the increase in interracial marriages and births, we wondered how long it will take before a child of a pure mixture of all races is born, and what would that child look like? What's your thoughts on it? The first true Child of the Earth.

Pick any child in any preschool and you will have your answer. The racial differences a person's appearance are as superficial as the spots on a dog's fur.

 

[lance gt]

Not knowing the 'racial mix' in the USA does limit my options, but I cannot shake the feeling that there are a lot of the 'chinese' types on this planet and that may alter the face a touch.
Just a thought

Then the mix wouldn't be pure, Hand. It has to be as equal a mix as nature would allow to happen. I'm not disagreeing with you on the Asian factor, I feel the tendancies will swing in that direction too. But for the sake of arguement, we'll consider equal mix the standard to go by. Once there's one, more will surely come. What's the guess when our population all has the same characteristics?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Maybe we should see if "She" is actually out there and have her DNA tested to see if she's a true mix. If there is a guy pic, let's find them both. Would they constitute the creation of a new race, or would there be no difference or distinction at all?

I can gt down the street a couple miles to my local state university and sit on the grass watching the students stroll by. On any fine spring day it shouldn't take more that perhaps 20 minutes before you can start to identify the one's whose grandparents (or thereabouts) came from four different continents. Figure that if an African-American airman was stationed in Thailand, as a lot of them were, and married a Thai girl, as a lot of them did, you'd have the first cross. Then if that child married a Mexican-American whose ancestry included both Spanish and Indian, tah-dah! Of course, that African-American is statistically likely to be 15% European, probably Scots-Irish. It gets pretty interesting.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Pick any child in any preschool and you will have your answer. The racial differences a person's appearance are as superficial as the spots on a dog's fur.

Exactly!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

LANCEEPOO?

Thoughts arent feelings, dear. Feelings are mad, sad, glad, afraid, fatigue, sleepy, hungry, pain.

And bone-up on genetics before you post any more silly threads.

 

[lance gt]

Pick any child in any preschool and you will have your answer. The racial differences a person's appearance are as superficial as the spots on a dog's fur.

Maybe so Bronze, but there are five distinct races with varying characteristics. Blue eyes are becoming extinct, as is REAL Blonde hair, so the caucasian traits are going to be minimal. Will the tight curls of the Afro race compete for dominance against the straightness of Asian and American Indian? The degrees to which race will supercede vary on how you mix them and which traits stay dormant in this child and arise in the next offspring after. Eventually people will inter-breed to a point where the truest mix of all races becomes the eventual look of all the people and different races and characteristics are a throw back rarity.

 

[lance gt]

LANCEEPOO?

Thoughts arent feelings, dear. Feelings are mad, sad, glad, afraid, fatigue, sleepy, hungry, pain.

And bone-up on genetics before you post any more silly threads.

What's the matter Jimmy me boy? Feeling a little put out the fun in the other thread is over? Bad boy, off you go and behave yourself.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

What's the matter Jimmy me boy? Feeling a little put out the fun in the other thread is over? Bad boy, off you go and behave yourself.

Clean up your game bird boy.

 

[lance gt]

Clean up your game bird boy.

Comment on the subject James, or vent in another thread. I don't have a game bird like you, so keep it off the table. Go put it with your other toys. Big people are talking, so be a good boy and play with the other kids. Look they have Play-Doh! You love Play-Doh James. Make me an ashtray again.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Maybe so Bronze, but there are five distinct races with varying characteristics. Blue eyes are becoming extinct, as is REAL Blonde hair, so the caucasian traits are going to be minimal. Will the tight curls of the Afro race compete for dominance against the straightness of Asian and American Indian? The degrees to which race will supercede vary on how you mix them and which traits stay dormant in this child and arise in the next offspring after. Eventually people will inter-breed to a point where the truest mix of all races becomes the eventual look of all the people and different races and characteristics are a throw back rarity.

That story you read about blondes becoming extinct was a hoax. No such study was ever done and the people alleged to have done it at the UN deny any knowledge. Recessive genes are recessive. They don't go extinct. There are even blond and redheaded Mongols from the days when ethnic Celts worked their way east along the Silk Road. Additionally, all modern races are estimated to be less than 10,000 years old.

 

[Epmd607]

That story you read about blondes becoming extinct was a hoax. No such study was ever done and the people alleged to have done it at the UN deny any knowledge. Recessive genes are recessive. They don't go extinct. There are even blond and redheaded Mongols from the days when ethnic Celts worked their way east along the Silk Road. Additionally, all modern races are estimated to be less than 10,000 years old.

Blond hair and blues eyes won't go extinct in lit stories. Here at lit every young female has blond hair and blue eyes, and more importantly, wants to sleep with her brother, father, teacher, doctor, hypnotist...

 

[Elianna]

Back to the subject... I don't know people think olive/darker skin, brown hair, and brown eyes isn't as pretty. When you look at that image, she's beautiful! I remember going to school and being teased because I was "browner" than everyone else, especially because my mom was the equivalent to Snow White in coloring. (No, I wasn't adopted. My dad is dark.)

I think we have a fixation. Remember when 3113 did the "Baliwood" thread several months back. What color eyes did many of those beautiful brown-skinned women have...blue. I remember thinking "huh." Where does this fixation come from? I personally write about women who are less "brown" than me. I don't look in the mirror every day and consciously think about my coloring, but I've always wanted to have different skin, eyes, hair... Are we culturally conditioned to want to be light eyed and light skinned? Is that global?

Just thinking.

 

[xssve]

With any luck all the women will look like Barbara Streisand and all the men will look like George Steinbrenner.

 

[lance gt]

With any luck all the women will look like Barbara Streisand and all the men will look like George Steinbrenner.

I was thinking more like, Jason Alexander and Margeret Po.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Back to the subject... I don't know people think olive/darker skin, brown hair, and brown eyes isn't as pretty. When you look at that image, she's beautiful! I remember going to school and being teased because I was "browner" than everyone else, especially because my mom was the equivalent to Snow White in coloring. (No, I wasn't adopted. My dad is dark.)

I think we have a fixation. Remember when 3113 did the "Baliwood" thread several months back. What color eyes did many of those beautiful brown-skinned women have...blue. I remember thinking "huh." Where does this fixation come from? I personally write about women who are less "brown" than me. I don't look in the mirror every day and consciously think about my coloring, but I've always wanted to have different skin, eyes, hair... Are we culturally conditioned to want to be light eyed and light skinned? Is that global?

Just thinking.

I think it goes back to the Middle Ages where the knights, etc. were all northern barbarians and the peasants were conquered Mediterranean types, especially on the continent. To be 'noble' was to be light-skinned and to be swarthy was to be a peasant. Just a guess, y'unnerstan'.

 

[Epmd607]

I was thinking more like, Jason Alexander and Margeret Po.

Maury Povich and Smurfette.

 

[cloudy]

I think we have a fixation. Remember when 3113 did the "Baliwood" thread several months back. What color eyes did many of those beautiful brown-skinned women have...blue. I remember thinking "huh." Where does this fixation come from? I personally write about women who are less "brown" than me. I don't look in the mirror every day and consciously think about my coloring, but I've always wanted to have different skin, eyes, hair... Are we culturally conditioned to want to be light eyed and light skinned? Is that global?

Just thinking.

Odd...I was just the opposite.

I never knew much of my dad's family - he was an only child - and I always thought I was too "light" when I was around my mother's very large family (that's the Native side). Another weird thing: when I lived on the reserve up in Ontario, I noticed that there are some full-blooded Ojibwe that are lighter than I am.

My hair is a generic dark brown, and my skin isn't as dark as hers. I have cool eyes, though: hazel (thank you, mom).

Maybe so Bronze, but there are five distinct races with varying characteristics. Blue eyes are becoming extinct, as is REAL Blonde hair, so the caucasian traits are going to be minimal. Will the tight curls of the Afro race compete for dominance against the straightness of Asian and American Indian? The degrees to which race will supercede vary on how you mix them and which traits stay dormant in this child and arise in the next offspring after. Eventually people will inter-breed to a point where the truest mix of all races becomes the eventual look of all the people and different races and characteristics are a throw back rarity.

I used to call my daughter a member of a future race. I'm White/Spanish/Native American and her father is Black/Native American. She's just simply gorgeous.

 

[Epmd607]

Back to the subject... I don't know people think olive/darker skin, brown hair, and brown eyes isn't as pretty. When you look at that image, she's beautiful! I remember going to school and being teased because I was "browner" than everyone else, especially because my mom was the equivalent to Snow White in coloring. (No, I wasn't adopted. My dad is dark.)

I think we have a fixation. Remember when 3113 did the "Baliwood" thread several months back. What color eyes did many of those beautiful brown-skinned women have...blue. I remember thinking "huh." Where does this fixation come from? I personally write about women who are less "brown" than me. I don't look in the mirror every day and consciously think about my coloring, but I've always wanted to have different skin, eyes, hair... Are we culturally conditioned to want to be light eyed and light skinned? Is that global?

Just thinking.

To get off subject, anyone remember descriptions from 19th century novels where the women are dark-eyed? It might be a Russian/French thing, they used to favor a sclera that was dark(possibly sclera) and had ways to darken that white part of the eye.