Interracial Dating Destroys Diversity - Interracial Dating is Wrong

Thank you for opening up the conversation about this topic. I look forward to our exchange of ideas. Your argument on this topic is flawed. First, let us review what we currently understand about genetics and evolution. Let us first remember that the concept of race in our society is somewhat of a delusion [1]. Varying "races" are merely humans that have been geographically separated for a long enough time to begin to develop traits that best suit them for their environment. As it stands, races are merely groups of humans with distinct genomes that vary significantly (as far as a genome within a species can vary) when compared with other races, but not their own [2]. When you talk about interracial dating, you're talking about two humans who have been evolutionarily separated and possess distinct genomes that are likely quite different from the genomes of their own race (again, in the context of intraspecies comparisons since conformity among intraspecies is extremely conserved). For this argument, I will assume that diversity is by means of genetic diversity since this is the empirical way of determining diversity in science. This is important to remember as we move forward in our conversation. When any species reproduces using sexual reproduction (as humans do), two organisms swap their genetic information (in the form of the DNA) producing an entirely unique genome in their offspring [4]. For this reason, I find your statement, "the biggest proponent of diversity is homogeneity," to be quite disturbing. Dogs are a great example as to why this simply isn't true. When you cross two homogenous dogs-- let's say two labs-- what is the result? Another labrador, of course. What happens when you cross a labrador and a beagle? A dog that is entirely unique and that cannot exist outside of heterogeneous mating [5]. The same is true of humans. When persons from two different races (that is, two individuals with relatively distinctive genomes) mate, they produce offspring which possess genomes that would not be possible without this interracial reproduction. This most certainly increases diversity among the human genome. Now, where I believe the root of your argument comes from is summarized by your statement, "just as two dyes- when mixed - create on dye at the expense of both dyes, interracial dating does the same." Although this is a clever analogy and may be literally true (dyes that are combined lose their individuality to make a new dye), your argument is flawed and out of context. You're asserting that by allowing interracial dating, we would lose what some would consider, for lack of a better term, the "stock" of our species. In other words, you're saying if we mix blue and red to make purple, we will have purple but no blue or red and therefore we should not mix those colors so that we can preserve the original colors. The problem with this is that we're not dumping all the red and the blue in the world together. In fact, we're doing a fantastic job of conserving our "racial" genetics. In the United States, for example, although the rate of interracial marriage is up, it is still well below one fourth of all marriages [3]. Even if it did reach twenty-five percent or even fifty percent, there's still a good chunk of the population that's not mixing their colors. Take dogs again, for example. Although dog breeding is popular across breeds, do we still have what some call "pure breeds" such as beagles? Of course we do. As long as even less than twenty-five percent of the population sustains homogeneous mating, we will still be able to conserve our stock species. And I'm even using the United States as an example, not even talking about countries whose populations are radically homogeneous to begin with [6]. In short, it is extremely unlikely that we will run out of our reds and blues while we make our purple. However, if we refuse to mix our reds and blues at all then we will never have our purple at all. That most certainly is inhibiting the proliferation of diversity, and therefore you cannot say that interracial dating is destroying diversity. [1] https://anthropology.net... [2] http://evolution.berkeley.edu... [3] http://www.npr.org... [4] http://ib.bioninja.com.au... [5] http://www.pnas.org... [6] https://www.washingtonpost.com...