What would the average skin tone and facial features look like after 300 years if every partner relationship was interracial until there were no other ethnicities? Just a hodgepodge of DNA. What would the average human look like having a little bit of everything in them?

I just think the idea is neat is all.

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      I mean there are general genetic differences due to where people are from. Is that not what a race is?

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        The whole race theory has been debunked over a century ago. You also have genetic difference in foot shape, blood type and many more, and a race system build on that would be as wrong as one based on skin colour

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          Oh I’m not particularly informed on any of this because I don’t really care tbh, but I though race was where you (and your ancestors) are from as opposed to skin colour?

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            Some people use “race” to mean that, but the word you’d be looking for is ethnicity.

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        You have to ask biology, not politicians. That’s the major change!

        Biology’s answer is simple, and it hasn’t changed during the last 50 years or so.

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        There’s genetic differences between you and everyone else in your family. Are you a different race to them?

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          No, that’s why I said general. For example people from Europe tend to have lighter skin, Scandinavian people tend to have lighter hair, African people tend to have coarser hair.

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      The only reason I refer to it that way is because it is easily understood and is how a lot of paperwork refers to it. In my opinion, it makes it sound like we we are a completely different alien species.