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MellowDem

(5,018 posts)
16. I doubt that...
Sat Feb 18, 2012, 06:20 PM
Feb 2012

everyone will be a homogenous light brown. That assumes that there will be almost constant heavy movements of all the peoples of the world all over the world, which will likely never happen.

The places that are mostly white/black/brown or what have you now will for the most part likely stay that way, though they of course could change at local levels, especially metropolitan areas with constant movement of people in and out of the area.

I think pressures on energy resources will make such mass movement that would be required impossible in the future and create ever more localized communities as "moving" becomes less feasible or necessary. Perhaps in a world with unlimited resources and a one world government (think "Star Trek" like), that could happen over thousands of years. But I guess I don't see such a utopian future for humanity, haha.

Right now, immigration numbers are so small generally, even in nations that allow a lot of it, that all that really happens is that the nation slowly absorbs the immigrants over hundreds and thousands of years, and there is little discernable change.

I do think perceptions of race by skin color, which is merely a social construct, will continue to change to perhaps the point of irrelevance one day, just like hair and eye color are fairly irrelevant right now.

Buchanan can take comfort in the fact that Hispanics are for the most part classified as white under the US census. Which really just shows the whole silliness of the social construct. Buchanan fears ethnic extinction, and like many right wingers, his fears are based on ignorance and paranoia. Ethnicities change constantly all over the world, as does culture, even without immigration, so Buchanan seems to be fighting a battle that can't be won. Not to mention, the "ethnicity" he clamors for was only created out of the evolution of other ethnicities and cultures.

They don't have two brain cells between them. Scuba Feb 2012 #1
They do,now if they could only move those brain cells into that thing in their skulls. athenasatanjesus Feb 2012 #8
Well that figures. lpbk2713 Feb 2012 #2
"Hannity is the only TV interviewer left who cares what Buchanan thinks" BumRushDaShow Feb 2012 #5
Tweety's "eulogy" was downright embarassing Amerigo Vespucci Feb 2012 #6
... Initech Feb 2012 #3
Buchanan is a breed of dinosaur heading for extinction aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2012 #4
I think he's headed for Fox News Faygo Kid Feb 2012 #11
I doubt that... MellowDem Feb 2012 #16
It sounds better in the original German. Ikonoklast Feb 2012 #7
That's funny. Arkana Feb 2012 #9
What is the % of Af. Americans in the U.S. population now? Honeycombe8 Feb 2012 #10
12.6% in 2010 Amerigo Vespucci Feb 2012 #12
Thx. I'm guessing Buchanan is upset about the combined % of minorities, not just... Honeycombe8 Feb 2012 #17
Does this guy hear himself or what? Shankapotomus Feb 2012 #13
He is literally too stupid to know how stupid he is. sibelian Feb 2012 #19
Pat, bat shit crazy! Buchanan. sarcasmo Feb 2012 #14
"Batshit Buchanan." Has a nice ring to it! Number23 Feb 2012 #18
If you haven't seen the movie Big Trouble you should. Initech Feb 2012 #20
Hey Pat! Don't ever get a blood transfusion or allow a family member to get one. Botany Feb 2012 #15
He'll say white culture made it possible for Dr. Drew to come up with that. Zalatix Feb 2012 #21
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