Ah, the race card. Its not like I'm pushing my luck with all of this odd sex talk, I have to put race into the mix. It makes me think of the speech from the 1998 Warren Beatty movie, Bulworth. "White people, black people, brown people, yellow people, get rid of 'em all/ All we need is a voluntary, free spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction/ Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody til they're all the same color."
No one is actually saying that a human breeding program needs to be established. That's a little too Third Reich for my taste. Still, science has some interesting things to say about people of mixed racial background. A study released in April of this year found that people of various racial backgrounds are more attractive than "pure bred" individuals. A random sampling of 1,200 white, black and mixed race people found the mixed people perceived to be the best looking.
“A random sample of black, white, and mixed-race faces was collected and rated for their perceived attractiveness. There was a small but highly significant effect, with mixed-race faces, on average, being perceived as more attractive," said Michael Lewis of Britain's Cardiff University.
Here is the science: mutations in a person's DNA can cause disease, making people unattractive. Since mutations tend to be recessive, two parents with the mutations need to mate to create a child with the expressed disease. People of two different races are less likely to carry the same mutated genes, and less likely to have sickly children. The closer in genetic background two people are, the more likely they will have the same genetic defects. This is what is usually called inbreeding.
Sources:
http://www.futurity.org/society-culture/biracial-faces-voted-most-beautiful/
http://mixedmediawatch.xanga.com/164319835/item/
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