- 19 Aug 2009 19:05
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Sort of. The phi mask is a human universal for beautiful facial geometry, clear unblemished skin is too, as is waist-hip ratio near theta. Light hair and eye color are also preferred by most cultures that are aware of them, though this one is subject to more personal preference than some other things.
No group accepted as a race is anywhere close to being sufficiently inbred to result in the kind of proliferation of genetic diseases you're alluding to, and most hunter-gatherers had breeding groups under 150 people in the first place. As for the British Royal Family, the Germans in question came in three centuries ago with the Hanoverians, and there was an additional German infusion when Victoria married Albert Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Queen Elizabeth II, by the way, married a Greek.
From a scientific standpoint, on the other hand, racial hybridization can result in the loss of co-evolved adaptations to particular local conditions (esp. certain diseases), and and the low genetic similarity of the offspring compared to his parents means a weaker parent-child bond, hence the higher rate of child abandonment and abuse with miscegenated children. This is completely aside from my aversion to the introduction of alleles that would change the physical appearance of my people.
dudekebm wrote:And there is also the statement that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Sort of. The phi mask is a human universal for beautiful facial geometry, clear unblemished skin is too, as is waist-hip ratio near theta. Light hair and eye color are also preferred by most cultures that are aware of them, though this one is subject to more personal preference than some other things.
dudekebm wrote:But from a scientific standpoint all attempts at racial purity only ends up eventually with inbreeding after a few generations. Look at the British Royal Family and their whole history; they should be thankful they had some Germans come into that family in the beginning of the last century and that Princess Diana actually got married in and produced a couple of heirs to let the gene pool breathe a bit or else the next generation or so would have been freakish pinheads you'd normally see in the backwoods of East Texas where people marry their first cousins.
No group accepted as a race is anywhere close to being sufficiently inbred to result in the kind of proliferation of genetic diseases you're alluding to, and most hunter-gatherers had breeding groups under 150 people in the first place. As for the British Royal Family, the Germans in question came in three centuries ago with the Hanoverians, and there was an additional German infusion when Victoria married Albert Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Queen Elizabeth II, by the way, married a Greek.
From a scientific standpoint, on the other hand, racial hybridization can result in the loss of co-evolved adaptations to particular local conditions (esp. certain diseases), and and the low genetic similarity of the offspring compared to his parents means a weaker parent-child bond, hence the higher rate of child abandonment and abuse with miscegenated children. This is completely aside from my aversion to the introduction of alleles that would change the physical appearance of my people.