Mixed-Race People

[BIL...@aol.com]

Let's say that the following article contains an important  truth.

Genetic hybridization can produce leaders, intellectuals, achievers and

so forth. But how necessary are these kinds of outcomes ?

 

For every Tiger Woods how many Timid Woods are there in the

mixed race population ? The short answer is that nobody knows.

The long answer is that the observation made in the article misses

an important consideration : Cultural values.

 

We seem to be living in a time of what --at least on the political Left--

might be called "dark skin color worship." This phenomenon seems to

have at least two causes :

 

( 1 ) Carry over from the Civil Rights era, which has also generally given us

"worship" of non-normative ( non-white, non-male, non-family ) people as a moral good

which rebalances the injustices of the past

 

( 2 ) and maybe most important, America is an empire. As such there are

imperatives for the state that do not apply to unitary-ethnic nations like

Hungary, Botswana, or South Korea ;  they do not apply to uni-ethnic

empires of the past, either, like the Axis powers of WWII, since those

models of dominance --unless China turns out to be a qualified exception--

simply don't cut it any more.

 

In other words, if America is going to continue to lead the world it must

more and more resemble the world, hence must increasingly valorize

peoples who were not dominant in the United States in previous eras.

 

Mixed race individuals benefit from this change not only because of

greater social acceptance than would have been possible in 1900 or even 1950,

but because America needs leaders who can appeal to Asians or Africans

or Latin Americans, leaders who can achieve things in business, the military,

the arts, communications, etc, who are part Asian or African or Latino

themselves  --yet unquestionably are 100% American.

 

Why do Jews tend to intermarry at high rates ?  For much the same reasons

that German-Americans intermarry at high rates, or Irish-Americans, or

French-Americans. National policy is the policy of empire and the

values of empire permeate our political culture in much the same

way that the politics of the Roman Empire long ago permeated

Roman society. Yet because we are a democracy and this is the

basis of our shared ideology  --Americanism--  we must not talk

about "empire." Doing so is a cultural taboo. It would spoil

our national self-image.

 

However, because of unintended consequences of such policies,

such as near hysteria that led to the election of someone of mixed race

background to the presidency, someone woefully unprepared for the office,

maybe it is high time that we look closely at exactly what is going on

in our system of priorities. Yes, by all means, we must provide

maximum opportunities for everyone regardless of race or ethnicity.

But we need a  meritocracy  not an reverse racialist "ethnocracy."

 

 

So it seems to me.

Billy

 

 

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Real Clear Science / Real Clear  Politics

Are Multiracial People More Apt to Be Successful?

Posted by Ross Pomeroy at Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:33:00

It's a question I've occasionally pondered when watching Derek Jeter smack a homer or while laughing hysterically at one of Maya Rudolph's jokes: Are mixed-race people more inclined to be successful?

2006 data shows that mixed-race people make up only two percent of the population of the United States, yet it often seems that they are over-proportionately represented in the upper echelon of sports and arts. Tiger Woods, Blake Griffin, Jessica Alba, Bob Marley, Halle Berry, Alicia Keys, and Lenny Kravitz are but a few of the individuals in this talented group. This trend may possibly even extend to the realms of politics and business. Think of influential people like Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Steve Jobs, and President Barack Obama.

But it appears that evidence for mixed-race success extends beyond the anecdotal. In 1955, B.L. Penrose of London University College published a paper citing evidence of "exceptional fertility" in mixed-race individuals of combined European and Native American ancestry. At the most basic level of biological success-- reproduction -- multiracial people excelled.

In 2010, psychology professor, Dr. Michael Lewis of Cardiff University conducted a study on the perceived attractiveness of mixed-race people. Attractiveness has been linked to many different forms of success.

1205 male and female faces were collected by two research assistants naive to the hypothesis regarding attractiveness. Twenty white psychology students rated each face on its attractiveness on a 9-point scale (5 being of average attractiveness). The averaged results were that the mixed-race faces were perceived as being significantly more attractive than either the white or black faces.

In his discussion, Lewis noted that of the photos in the top 5% of attractiveness, 74% were of mixed-race people. If the study's distributions were extrapolated to the general population of the United Kingdom, it would have been expected that mixed-race people would comprise no more than 9% of the top 1% most attractive.

Something is clearly going on here, and it may have something to do with heterosis, or hybrid vigor. This is the idea that offspring of genetically-different parents will have improved or increased function of certain biological qualities. The breeding of genetically distinct organisms has been tremendously successful with cattle, corn, rice, onion, spinach sunflowers, broccoli, and marijuana.

However, humans are definitely not corn or cattle, so the theory of hybrid vigor as it pertains to mixed-race success will be difficult to study in a controlled fashion. For now, we'll have to rely almost entirely on anecdotal evidence. .....