Is the majority of mixed-race risk factor for mental illness a result of genetics or the environment?

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I was reading a few subreddits for mixed race individuals and it seems that by far the most common thing they dislike about being mixed-race is neither side accepts them. They don't have a concrete identity, at least yet.

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[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

I'm friends with many mixed race individuals and their issues stem from three parts:

1) Like you said, they have no identity. Often they are not welcome in either group from which they stem from and they deal with isolation and alienation.

2) This one is less talked about. Mixed race children are often not the product of functional adults. Often times it's one of two dynamics: Either a malformed/overweight/inadequate white woman desperate for a man with a non-white partner, or a juvenile/under-achieving/low status white male with a non-white woman who is desperate to Westernize.

3) The races in question might have extremely divergent temperament causing confusion which possibly has biological/nature origins. You see this most often in African/East Asian mixed race children who have timid mothers and type A fathers or vise versa. The conflicting temperament can cause issues with how they perceive the world.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

I'm friends with many mixed race individuals and their issues stem from three parts:

1) Like you said, they have no identity.

It's a stretch to believe you are friends with someone with no identity. Unless, this is what you have in common.
Seriously, you're friends with many people who have no identity?

Often they are not welcome in either group from which they stem from and they deal with isolation and alienation.

This may be the result of your questionable friendship.

2) This one is less talked about. Mixed race children are often not the product of functional adults. Often times it's one of two dynamics: Either a malformed/overweight/inadequate white woman desperate for a man with a non-white partner, or a juvenile/under-achieving/low status white male with a non-white woman who is desperate to Westernize.

Generally, friends is a feather flock together, so this says quite a bit about your personal circumstances.

3) The races in question might have extremely divergent temperament causing confusion which possibly has biological/nature origins. You see this most often in African/East Asian mixed race children who have timid mothers and type A fathers or vise versa. The conflicting temperament can cause issues with how they perceive the world.

Again; if many of your friends have these issues, then there must be a reason you identify with many of these friends...

[–]SoylentCapitalist[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

It's a stretch to believe you are friends with someone with no identity. Unless, this is what you have in common. Seriously, you're friends with many people who have no identity?

Again; if many of your friends have these issues, then there must be a reason you identify with many of these friends...

I'm pretty sure he isn't dealing in absolutes. Obviously they have some identity, being both White and Asian or White and Black. It just isn't as concrete of an identity as other races. Why couldn't he be friends with one of these individuals? I don't see why you're suspicious of his claim.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

He's mixed race and took offense

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Everyone is in denial that they're "mixed race".

A half Irish half English person would be considered mixed race in Europe 150 years ago.

You recognize that as stupid, and it is.

I've taken this logic to it's obvious conclusion, and accept that the entire concept is stupid.

You're in denial.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I've taken this logic to it's obvious conclusion,

Lmao have you? Or are you conflating close-proximity tribal differences with continent-dividing macroscopic differences?

Here's my issue with you- what I just stated is so glaringly obvious that I'm forced to conclude one of two things:

1) You're dumb as fuck

2) You're gaslinghting

Either way, your opinion loses validity.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I enjoy seeing the ad homenim fall-back statements.

2) You're gaslinghting

I am not gaslighting.

You are probably the type of person who tries to accuse me of the very thing you yourself are doing.

Either way, your opinion loses validity.

Says the ad homenim gaslighting guy.

Also, your username is tripe.

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Says God Bless in some posts but has "Cunt" in his name, probably as a joke, and believes people who are of mixed race have no identity. Also, believes AOC is far more radical than the republicans in power that have led us into multiple wars and have killed far more innocent oeople through their incompetamce and radical neoconservative/Likudnik partners.

Calls you either "dumbfuck" or "gaslighting" for trying to have a reasonable debate with him.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

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[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Personality is mostly genetic as far as I can tell. This has been most acceptably demonstrated in dogs. If you have a decent number of children you will see.

Anyways, the study used to back the claim that mixed race people are more prone to mental illness actually show that Asian-White hybrids are more likely than pure Asians to be diagnosed with mental illness but still less likely than Whites. So, at least in that case, it is not the mixing causing the mental illness but rather an intermediate phenotype between the parent races.

In theory, you could have more complex interactions between genes introducing mental illness that wasn’t there to begin with especially with more distantly related races.

[–]Fitter_HappierWhite Nationalist 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Nature/Nurture. Nurture I can see immediately for OP's stated reason, but I wouldn't be surprised to find untested gene combos have a higher rate of "failure" than the tried and true combos of Dawkins' "River Out of Eden" analogy, i.e. "races" are one branch of the river where all the gene combos are tried and tested. Mixing two long separate streams will produce "mutant" combos. Most mutants are NOT better, some are, but MOST are not.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Most mutants are NOT better, some are, but MOST are not.

Source?

[–]Fitter_HappierWhite Nationalist 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Source?

Any basic book on genetics.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Any basic book on genetics.

You should probably read one of the basic books you're referring to.

Mutations are random or environmentally induced genetic changes.

Mutations are independent of ethnicity. They are not shared features of a community.

Mutations may occur in an individual, and in certain circumstances the mutation can be passed along to offspring.

This is very different from what you're suggesting in your argument.

https://www.yourgenome.org/facts/what-is-a-mutation

A mutation is a change that occurs in our DNA sequence, either due to mistakes when the DNA is copied or as the result of environmental factors such as UV light and cigarette smoke.

[–]Fitter_HappierWhite Nationalist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I put mutant in quotes to say it was analogous. You're right, I don't have PROOF that "mutant" combinations of genes are usually deleterious, I'm making an analogous guess, but apparently there are numerous studies listed in this thread iirc that say just that.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (47 children)

Everyone in the US is mixed. half german/italian/whatever.

These national distinctions used to be areas of concern.

Most Americans in WW2 were mixed European, and they basically took over Europe and the rest of the world.

People need to grow a pair and focus on real issues.

Race baiting/wars is for frightened little bitches.

[–]cisheteroscumWhite Nationalist 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (39 children)

Everyone in the US is mixed. half german/italian/whatever.

This is a false equivalence. Ethnicities are not races. A German and Italian mixing is not the same as a German and a somalian

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (38 children)

Cultural differences exist, but they are learned.

The idea of race is bullshit.

It's a divide and conquer tool.

Apparently, it is an effective tool for controlling the minds and actions of certain groups.

How much influence have they had in your life?

[–]Fitter_HappierWhite Nationalist 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (31 children)

The idea of race is bullshit.

Wait, you're trying to tell me there is no fundamental difference between a Swede and a Bantu? Groups that have evolved completely isolated for well over 100,000 years? (Wolves circa 30,000 years ago diverged into all modern dogs.)

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (20 children)

If a Bantu baby boy is adopted and raised by a Swede family he will be culturally indistinguishable, except he will look different.

[–]cisheteroscumWhite Nationalist 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

Again, this is just "wrong". Use IQ adoption studies already conducted 30 years ago. It doesn't work out the way you say

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

IQ test are rigged to boost the egos of the affluent among Western societies.

Do you know what a regatta is? I bet you don't.

If not, then you'll probably only score roughly average on an IQ test.

This is the way IQ test are rigged the make the wealthy appear more intelligent.

[–]cisheteroscumWhite Nationalist 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This is the way IQ test are rigged the make the wealthy appear more intelligent

Dumb. We know IQ/g measures "intelligence" because it correlates with other proxies for intelligence - like peer rated intelligence, scores on standardized tests, etc. It's also the most powerful predictor for life outcomes that exists in the social sciences

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)

The practical validity of g as a predictor of educational, economic, and social outcomes is more far-ranging and universal than that of any other known psychological variable. The validity of g increases as the complexity of the measured task increases

The predictive validity of g is most conspicuous in the domain of scholastic performance. This is apparently because g is closely linked to the ability to learn novel material and understand concepts and meanings.

There is a high correlation of .90 to .95 between the prestige rankings of occupations, as rated by the general population, and the average general intelligence scores of people employed in each occupation.

Research indicates that tests of g are the best single predictors of job performance, with an average validity coefficient of .55 across several meta-analyses of studies based on supervisor ratings and job samples. The average meta-analytic validity coefficient for performance in job training is .63.[94] The validity of g in the highest complexity jobs (professional, scientific, and upper management jobs) has been found to be greater than in the lowest complexity jobs, but g has predictive validity even for the simplest jobs.

And the list goes on. Easily disprovable copes on IQ are not going to save you here. Your "regatta" thing is at least as stupid. You'll have to try a little harder

[–]SoylentCapitalist[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Do you know what crystallized intelligence is? Because that's what your question falls under. Fluid intelligence is what an IQ test measures. Try looking at Raven's Progressive Matrices for an example of how fluid is quantified.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

So now we're addressing the nuances of the intelligence spectrum?

These are mental gymnastics that are devised, so some people can say they are smarter that others, or whatever.

The idea of measuring actual intelligence it's about as legitimate, as measuring a person's personality.

The social sciences are garbage.

I bet fewer Africans believe the covid hoax is deadly and existential threat

I bet fewer Africans believe what they see on TV.

Does that make them smarter?

It would be fairly easy for the "social sciences" to measure.

[–]SoylentCapitalist[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You are the silliest troll.

[–]LetssavethefirsworldReturn to Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

You got the regatta thing from the SATs in the 90s. IQ tests are nothing close to SAT questions

IQ have an extremely high G factor whereas those old SATs tested crystalized knowledge

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The regatta question came directly from an IQ test.

[–]LetssavethefirsworldReturn to Jesus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

No it did not. It came directly from an SAT you mongoloid. First result on Goog

https://www.clearchoiceprep.com/sat-act-prep-blog/the-most-infamous-example-of-cultural-bias-on-the-sat

[–]Fitter_HappierWhite Nationalist 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Uh huh, sure. You do know we've been trying to domesticate Africans in America forever and they are as feral as ever.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Well, it appears that Western cultures were much more susceptible to domestication.

The African countries were the ones who rejected and resisted the WHO scamdemic lockdown.

"Leadership" of every European country bent the knee.

[–]Fitter_HappierWhite Nationalist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The African countries were the ones who rejected and resisted the WHO scamdemic lockdown.

Yeah, their village Witchdoctor told them to. Just treat it with some albino flesh or bald head brains and you're good to go.

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Hasbara shill.

[–]Fitter_HappierWhite Nationalist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

who me? the fuck is hasbara. Africans are notoriously superstitious, come on. Just because they may have done something right for the wrong reason doesn't make me a shill.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Tanzania Fruit & Goat tests positive for Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdowns Quarantine

The govt of Tanzania was suspicious about the intentions of the WHO (for very practical reasons).

So, they took samples of papaya fruit, goats blood, motor oil, etc. And assigned these samples with random human names, and random ages.

The goats and papaya samples came back with positive covid test results. The motor oil tested negative.

These Africans were more intelligent than the senior leadership in our govt and the WHO, because they allowed the the WHO to disprove the validity of their own testing method.

That's a 3D chess move. It's ingenious.

[–]SoylentCapitalist[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Well over 100,000 years? What? They barely settled Scandinavia 12,000 years ago.

People started settling in Scandinavia and calling it home soon after the region emerged out of the icy grip of the last ice age around 12,000 years ago. Archaeological finds show that people lived in the area 11,700 years ago.

https://sciencenordic.com/archaeology-forskningno-society--culture/first-scandinavians-came-from-north-and-south/1453083#:~:text=People%20started%20settling%20in%20Scandinavia,where%20they%20had%20come%20from.

[–]Fitter_HappierWhite Nationalist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Groups didn't interbreed for >100,000 years. Once a group set off from Africa they never looked back. The didn't just hop to Sweden, they slowly migrated but were on a separate evolutionary path with all the difference selective pressures that the North presents vs. African jungles and savannas.

[–]SoylentCapitalist[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Humans didn't even leave Africa until 50,000 years ago. It's insane to think they've been isolated for "well over 100,000" years.

The recent African origin paradigm suggests that the anatomically modern humans outside of Africa descend from a population of Homo sapiens migrating from East Africa roughly 70–50,000 years ago and spreading along the southern coast of Asia and to Oceania by about 50,000 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_human_migrations#:~:text=The%20recent%20African%20origin%20paradigm,by%20about%2050%2C000%20years%20ago.

On that account, they wouldn't even be considered Swedes or white for that matter until much later after they migrated out of Africa.

Swede and a Bantu? Groups that have evolved completely isolated for well over 100,000 years?

[–]Fitter_HappierWhite Nationalist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

It's insane to think they've been isolated for "well over 100,000" years.

Yeah, you'd know better than Nature, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(journal)#Landmark_papers.

You don't understand what I'm saying: one group starts walking north, they don't stop until they arrive in the arctic circle 100,000 years later with no interaction with the other. You only have to move out of breeding distance to speciate.

[–]SoylentCapitalist[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

You don't understand what I'm saying: one group starts walking north, they don't stop until they arrive in the arctic circle 100,000 years later with no interaction with the other. You only have to move out of breeding distance to speciate.

Ironic. Read my comment again, half way to the arctic circle they aren't yet a Swede. They are still genetically similar. You're including the time they aren't even a Swede into being separated for 100,000 years. They didn't even have fair skin among other features to be considered a Swede while migrating, to put it in a better way. And, once again, they didn't even leave Africa until 50,000 to 70,000 years ago as my source told you.

Swede and a Bantu? Groups that have evolved completely isolated for well over 100,000 years?

See now how the 'Swede' himself hasn't been completely isolated for that long?

[–]Fitter_HappierWhite Nationalist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

half way to the arctic circle they aren't yet a Swede.

You're just playing stupid semantics. Any child would understand what I'm saying, but apparently it's beyond you. I'm done.

[–]Bored123123 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So if I replaced the population of Japan with 20,000,000 million Somalis, you would still say that the country is Japan?

[–]cisheteroscumWhite Nationalist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Cultural differences exist, but they are learned.

This baseless, boomer-tier rhetoric is so old. Do you know how many times we've seen this before? I know you're new, here's a hint + you're not gonna convince anyone using stupid mantras like this. We can just look at something like IQ to show you are wrong. Heritability estimates for IQ are 0.8 in adulthood in the US, meaning racial differences are about 80% down to genes

The idea of race is bullshit

The idea of classifying humans based on their geographic ancestry is not "bullshit", sorry. We do it for all other animals. It turns out human populations have generic differences that matter, and these are consequential to society.

Retarded boomerisms like "race isnt real" is what got us into this mess. You are part of the problem.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Retarded boomerisms like "race isnt real" is what got us into this mess.

Which mess are you referring to?

[–]cisheteroscumWhite Nationalist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The mess you know. The veritifiable clownworld of degeneracy, dysfunction, and race-denialism we live in. Where judeo-leftism destroys our societes from the inside-out, while non-whites are invited to invade white countries across the globe

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Lol.

Imagine mouthing the establishment narrative on race almost verbatim ("it's CULTURE not RACE", "RACE doesn't exist!") and then suggesting opposition to it, the most taboo position you can hold, is some kind of 'divide and conquer' trickery.

What you're suggesting is ahistorical bullshit. 1. Racial differences do exist. 2. There has never been "racial unity", it's a fantasy that exists only in the minds of hippies, retarded civnats and Hollywood.

Multiracialism leads to conflict. Wake the fuck up.

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

God, was quite clear and Yeshua too, that Race should never be an issue. All people are God's creation. To think of only race and nationality is to be a person with no spirit, to believe in sight and not in faith, to be like a Zionist who wants an ethnocracy. Unfotunately these users on Saidit want that and are playing into the hands of the Likdniks.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Being mixed European is not the same thing as being mixed race.

1940s America was 90% white and mostly of NW European stock. Outside of the Southern states (where there were lots of blacks), it was 95-99% white in most areas. Furthermore, whites (mainly WASPs) controlled the upper echelons of society in government and business.

The 1924 Immigration Act and National Origins formula was in place at this stage, which stopped mass immigration from countries like Italy, Poland and Russia that had happened in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and gave overt preference via higher quotas to the British, Irish, Germans, Dutch and Scandinavians... because they were the majority of the US population. That isn't to say Southern and Eastern Europeans never assimilated or were somehow lesser, just that America was once a relatively homogeneous country.

America became a superpower in large part because of the geopolitical and economic circumstances, and no small part of that was due to its racial makeup.

Had America opened Ellis Island to millions of Subsaharan Africans, Arabs, etc instead of Europe, it'd be a shithole.

Just compare the United States to most countries on the American continent which were mostly colonised by Spaniards and a few other Europeans who miscegenated themselves out of existence with natives and black slaves. Most of Latin America is a third world shithole, and no, it doesn't matter that much whether the country is "socialist" (like Venezuela) or "capitalist" (like Brazil). A common trend in these countries is that the white areas (e.g. Southern Brazil, where Gisele Bundchen is from, it's very German) are much better than where the blacks and browns are like the big cities.

America was very fortunate to have racially conscious political, academic and cultural leadership for most of its history. Beginning with the founding fathers themselves who made it clear from the beginning that the US was intended to be a white nation in the 1790 Naturalization Act.

Brazil 2.0 is the future of the United States if nothing changes.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Being mixed European is not the same thing as being mixed race.

Actually, it is.

The idea of racial differences was one of the primary motivations of Darwin's "theory of evolution".

The original book title was, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" (1859).

It's worth mentioning the fact that Darwin was English. You probably already knew that.

One of the absolute lowest ethnic classes was the Irish; according to Darwin.

The Irish were similarly disliked when they immigrated to the US.

Being mixed European is not the same thing as being mixed race.

It's exactly the same.

It's all predicated on the same absurdly racist concept.

[–]SoylentCapitalist[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Brazil 2.0 is the future of the United States if nothing changes.

I agree for the most part, but I also think the different genetic admixture here will produce a different effect. What is the average IQ of Mesoamerican natives? Also, what is the most feasible solution to this problem? I feel simply maintaining a white majority of around 75% and keeping high IQ individuals, regardless of ethnicity, in the political and scientific fields while maintaining a better social structure is the answer. It isn't necessary for the US to balkanize or become an ethnostate, in my opinion.

[–]SoylentCapitalist[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Most Americans in WW2 were mixed European, and they basically took over Europe and the rest of the world.

Heterosis is real. But I don't think that's what gave them the advantage of taking over Europe. They benefited enormously from being among the last fucked major power during and after the war when they intervened. Land, industry, and population.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I'm sceptical about hybrid vigour, personally. At least as it relates to mixed-race people.

Mixed race people, on the whole, do not dominate anything, whether it's intellectual/academic fields, innovation or athletics. Instead, they just seem to fall somewhere in between the races of their parents. The Minnesota Transracial Adoption study suggested this with IQ. The most racially mixed regions of the world are third world. Latin America is very mixed race, for example.

You do get very beautiful/handsome mixed-race people, often because they've inherited European features like round eyes, blue eyes and straight hair. There are plenty of 'meh' and unattractive mixed-race people too who have inherited the worst traits of their parents.

The only benefit I see from "race-mixing" is the reduced chance of passing on certain genetic diseases, but you don't need to race mix to avoid inbreeding problems. You're safe as long as you breed with basically anyone who is not in your immediate family or your 1st/2nd/3rd cousin. The white population is big enough to avoid inbreeding depression.

[–]SoylentCapitalist[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Based on what I read further up in the thread gave me new insight on how hybrid vigor works in humans.

Dawkins' "River Out of Eden" analogy, i.e. "races" are one branch of the river where all the gene combos are tried and tested. Mixing two long separate streams will produce "mutant" combos. Most mutants are NOT better, some are, but MOST are not.

[–]cisheteroscumWhite Nationalist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Heterosis is real

It's not. At least, not for humans in most instances so far as we can tell. In some instances, with some species? Sure. Same can be said about outbreeding depression (the opposite effect)

But I agree with the rest