What Americans will look like in 2050.

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<p>…and so? Because there might be an increased health risk associated with a particular human physical trait, we should try to wipe it out?</p>

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<p>I doubt the intention of interracial relationships is to wipe out blue eyes. :)) </p>

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<p>That was quite the leap Bay, hope you didn’t hurt yourself.</p>

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<p>No, I agree. I don’t understand the point of people raising the negatives about having blue eyes and pale skin. That is what I am getting at. There are negatives about having lots of particular physical traits. </p>

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<p>When the negative aspects of a genetic trait outweigh the positive aspects, it generally eliminates itself when it affects procreation.</p>

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<p>Ok, well brown eyed people have a higher incidence of vitiligo and other auto-immune diseases, so I guess those people will be eliminated too.</p>

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<p>Do those affect procreation/ longevity?
Vitiligo doesnt seem to have a single causal factor.
Worldwide incidence ranges from 0.5% to 2%.</p>

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<p>I don’t know. Does macular degeneration affect procreation/longevity?</p>

<p>I read that it is more common in caucasians. All will be eliminated, I guess.</p>

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<p>Two of my three kids have beautiful blue eyes. One has hazel, which are also beautiful. I’m the adoptive mom, with boring brown eyes. I embrace the differences.</p>

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<p>I have blue eyes, my half sister has brown. On my mom’s side, myself and all of my cousins have blue eyes despite the fact that all of us have 3 grandparents with brown eyes. I think I’m the only cousin on my dad’s side with blue eyes. </p>

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<p>It seems like in HS, kids still tend to stay within their social groups/cliques when they date, but don’t consider race/ethic origin at all.</p>

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<p>However, immigrants are a self-selected group who may be less conservative about such things than others in their origin countries. Indeed, it seems to be a common story of an immigrant or first generation American born person to consider marriage to someone of a different race or ethnicity (or internal social caste within some ethnicities), but encounter disapproval on that basis from parents or other older relatives (particularly if the latter live in the ancestral country).</p>

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<p>Here is an interesting article citing a decline in Asian inter-racial marriages, possibly spurred by the increase in Asian immigration. </p>

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<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/fashion/more-asian-americans-marrying-within-their-race.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all”>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/fashion/more-asian-americans-marrying-within-their-race.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Note that a non-trivial number of Asian - Asian marriages are between people of different ethnic or national origin backgrounds, as noted in the article linked from the New York Times article: <a href=“Interracial Dating & Marriage : Asian-Nation :: Asian American History, Demographics, & Issues”>http://www.asian-nation.org/interracial.shtml&lt;/a&gt; . Indeed, the New York Times article gives some examples of marriages which would not be seen as “interracial”, but are between people of different ethnic or national origin (e.g. Vietnamese - Indian, Chinese - Filipino).</p>

<p>Similar examples can be found within other socially defined racial groups, if one looks at the ethnic or national origin of the spouses of “same race” marriages.</p>

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<p>Interesting that you noted that ucbalumnus, because I have wondered whether, when self-reporting race, if a person of say, half-Japanese and half-Filipino descent, or half-Korean and half-Indian descent, would report him/herself as “Asian” or “Mixed.” The general racial categories would identify that person as “Asian,” but I don’t know whether he would identify himself that way when presented with the option to select two or more races, or mixed.</p>

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<p>Every single person in my family has blue eyes. I didn’t realize it was that uncommon. I find the idea of blue eyes being eradicated very sad. </p>

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<p>Blue eyes will not be eradicated. They will still exist.</p>

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<p>Im the only person in my family with red hair. My dads hair was brown with brown eyes, as were my paternal and maternal grandparents.
My mom had blond hair with blue eyes.
My kids have the gene for red( from me) & blond hair( their dad)
Blond is dominant so they have blond hair.
D married someone with brown & brown eye, so if they had kids, they would have brown hair and eyes unless he had the recessive gene for something else.
But if he did have a recessive gene, it’s possible that their kids could have either blond or even red hair depending on what that gene was.</p>

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<p>It is sad. Maybe blue-eyed people will make it onto the endangered list and become a protected species. :wink: But I can’t imagine how that would help.</p>

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<p>I don’t think anyone is going to be eradicated LOL. Also, maybe it’s just me but the girl in the link is very pretty although I think she would be just as pretty with light hair and eyes. Her “pretty” is not about her coloring. The rest of that bunch is not remotely especially attractive.</p>