Biological Problems with Mixed-Race Families, Marriages, Relationships & Adoptions

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Biological Problems with Mixed-Race Families,Marriages, Relationships & Adoptions
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Biological Problems with Mixed-Race Families, Marriages, Relationships and Adoptions
By A. J. Fisher, Jan. 14, 2011

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As anyone familiar with the literature knows, mixed-race marriages and romantic
relationships suBer many more problems than single-race marriages and romanticrelationships. For those familiar with human biodiversity (HBD) and sociobiology, thisshould come as no surprise. There are obvious medical problems with mixed-race oBspring,
like mixed-race children being unable to Jnd organ donors, as many organ transplants(such as bone marrow or stem cell) will only take if the donor and recipient are of the samerace. In evolutionary terms, one could argue that mixed-race marriages are maladaptive inthat they reduce a person's overall genetic Jtness. In a multiracial marriage or relationship,
one is showing altruism toward a partner who shares fewer genes than a co-ethnic would
share. A parent will also share fewer genes with a multiracial child than with a same-race
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share. A parent will also share fewer genes with a multiracial child than with a same-racechild.
It's natural for someone to prefer a partner of the same race, as this increases a person's
Darwinian Jtness. J. Philippe Rushton has noted:"[P]eople maximize their inclusive Jtness by marrying others similar to themselves...."In another article, Rushton notes:"Studies of human marriages and friendships show that people choose each other on thebasis of similarity, assorting on the most genetically inUuenced of a set of homogenous
attributes.... Darwin's theory of evolution tells us that the ultimate reason for behavior,
like morphology, is to enhance inclusive Jtness."Yet, while the vast majority of people are endogamous and marry within their own race,
what about those who do not? And what about those who have mixed-racechildren? Rushton has argued that the lower frequency of shared genes in racially mixedfamilies might result in: less intense bonding, greater conUict, and fewer children.
Part of the answer as to why this is so lies in genetic distances, Luca Cavalli-Sforza inGenes, Peoples, and Languages. Steve Sailer writes:"Cavalli-Sforza's team compiled extraordinary tables depicting the "genetic distances"
separating 2,000 diBerent ethnic groups from each other. For example, assume thegenetic distance between the English and the Danes is equal to 1.0. Then, Cavalli-Sforza
has found, the separation between the English and the Italians would be about 2.5 times
as large as the English- Danish diBerence. On this scale, the Iranians would be 9 times
more distant genetically from the English than the Danish, and the Japanese 59 times
greater. Finally, the gap between the English and the Bantus (the main group of subSaharan blacks) is 109 times as large as the distance between the English and theDanish."Using the genetic distances outlined above, let's look at two hypothetical multiracial
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Using the genetic distances outlined above, let's look at two hypothetical multiracial
marriages.

An English Man and a Japanese Woman: As genetic distance Jgures above note, an English
man would be around 59 times more closely related to a Dane than to his Japanese wife.
An English Female and a Black (Bantu) Father: Using the genetic distance Jgures above,the distance even widens with a white-black relationship. The English woman would bearound 109 times more closely related to a Dane than to her black husband, and he would
overwhelmingly be more closely related to his black co-ethnics than to his wife.
What of the mixed-race children? Parents in mixed-race relationships are not only
genetically dissimilar to each other but they also have a much greater genetic distance frompotential mixed-race children than from same-race children. Regarding the individual'sgenetic investment in the second example above, Frank Salter (On Genetic Interests, pg. 261)
writes:"For a person of English ethnicity, choosing an English spouse over a Dane gains lessthan one percent Jtness. But choosing an English spouse over a Bantu, one yields aJtness gain of 92 percent.... The same applies in reverse order, so that a Bantu whochooses another Bantu instead of someone of English ethnicity has 92% more of his orher genes in oBspring as a result.
It is almost the equivalent to having twice the number of children with an Englishspouse. Thus assortative mating by ethnicity can have large Jtness beneJts, the largest
derived from choosing mates within geographic races."
In other words and general terms, a white mother will be almost as twice as closely related
to a child with a white father versus a child with a black father. Because same-race parents
share more genes, each parent is likely to see more of his or her genes in the oBspring even
if they are not passed on directly. For example, if the father has gene X and doesn't pass it
on directly to his son, there's a good chance his same-race spouse will have gene X and pass
it on, so the son will indirectly possess the father's gene X.
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Noting phenotype in mixed-race children, each parent would more closely resemble coethnics than their own child, especially the white mother, since whites tend to haverecessive traits for appearance. (A person only 1/16 black will ohen still have visible andprominent black features.)And appearance does matter. The fact that mixed-race children do not resemble theparents, esp. the fairer parent, seems to be an issue of concern, although not widelydiscussed. In a candid letter about having a multiracial baby with a man from India, anEnglish mother notes:""She's getting very dark, isn't she?" This is what one of my friends recently said about
my much adored - 12-week-old daughter. She didn't mean to be rude. But it was acomment that struck me with the force of a jab to the stomach. Immediately, I wasoverwhelmed by a confusion of emotions. I felt protective, insulted, worried, ashamed,guilty, all at once. The reason? My lovely, wriggly, smiley baby is mixed race..... The
truth is, whatever the label, the fact there is a label proves that my daughter's conUicting
parentage matters....But when I turn to the mirror in my bedroom to admire us together,
I am shocked. She seems so alien. With her long, dark eyelashes and shiny, dark brown
hair, she doesn't look anything like me. I know that concentrating on how my daughter
looks is shallow. She is a person in her own right, not an accessory to me. But still, I
can't shake oB the feeling of unease. I didn't realise how much her looking diBerent
would matter and, on a rational level, I know it shouldn't. But it does. Evolution
demands that we have children to pass on our genes, hence the sense of pride andvalidation we get when we see our features reappearing in the next generation. With mydaughter, I don't have that....But self-Uagellation is not useful. I have more pressingconcerns. I am now the mother of a 'black' child, even if she is more the hue of weak tea
than espresso.... When she was born, pale but with lots of dark hair, I asked the midwife
if her eyes would stay blue. 'Asian genes are very strong,' she said in what I took to be an
ominous tone. No more Brady Bunch kids for me. The midwife has been proved rightand every day my baby's eyes get a little darker."
Since parents share fewer genes with mixed-race children, people involved in interracial
marriages are short-changing their own genes, which might explain why people engaged in
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marriages are short-changing their own genes, which might explain why people engaged in
mixed-race relationships ohen tend to have lower mate value. A recent survey found thatwhite women who date black men tend to be fatter, dumber and more quarrelsome than
average.

Given the very real problems with having mixed-race children (such as the fact that parentsohen feel estranged from children who do not resemble them and that the child will neverfully identify with the ancestral traditions of the parents, esp. the lighter parent), it isunsurprising that mixed-race children suBer more problems of identity and health. For
instance, mixed-race people are less likely to survive organ transplants, especially bonemarrow transplants. In general, mixed-race people have more health problems. A study byJ. Richard Udry notes:"A new study that involved surveying 90,000 adolescent U.S. students showed that those
who considered themselves to be of mixed race were more likely than others to suBer
from depression, substance abuse, sleep problems and various aches and pains.
Conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and theNational Institutes of Health, the investigation found that adolescents of mixed race
were more likely to have other health problems as well."
In other words, an argument could be made that mixed-race families are maladaptive -both for the parents and the children -- and undermine one's genetic interests. As noted byvarious commenters, multiracial families ohen do not possess the harmony, cooperationand purposefulness of same-race families, because mixed-race families lack the focus ofgenetic investment and returns that same-race families possess. Furthermore, there will beadditional medical problems, such as mixed-race children being unable to Jnd organ
donors, as many organ transplants (such as bone marrow or stem cell) will only take if thedonor and recipient are of the same race.
Update: Adoption: Regarding transracial adoptions, the same logic would apply. For
example, an English family that adopts a black child will be around 109 times more closely
related to a random Dane than to their adopted child. As a result, a harmonious congruenceof the parents' and adopted child's ethnic genetic interests will be missing. The ethnic
genetic interests of the parents and adopted child will ohen be at odds, creating a
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genetic interests of the parents and adopted child will ohen be at odds, creating adisharmonious family structure.
Update: From email: "People who engage in transracial adoptions probably suBer from
pathological altruism and ethnomasochism."
Further Reading:
List of articles on race mixing
Steve Sailer: "Ethnic Nepotism And The Reality Of Race"
Unamusement Park: "Perils of Miscegenation"
Lawrence Auster: "The Truth of Interracial Rape in the United States"Peter Dodds: “International Adoption: In Whose Best Interest?”
Some pieces people emailed addressing above topics from a religious perspective:
Generation5: "A Christian Reconsiders Trans-Racial Adoption" (From religiousperspective)
Nil Desperandum: "Christian Ethics and Interracial Marriage" (From religious perspective)

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