 Originally Posted by Taosaur
We may achieve a heterogeneity so evenly distributed that it resembles homogeneity. Any two people meeting in such a world are less likely to be concerned with hereditary differences and more likely to have enough language in common to communicate, but does it require that they have no ethnic difference, and no other languages?
I don't see how that level of heterogeneity would be stable. If there were still enough racial tension to prevent interracial breeding then It seems that there would also be enough to prefer racially segregated living. On the other hand, with well mixed heterogeneity and no racial tensions, I would expect to see the human species coalesce down to one race of its own accord. It may take a few centuries to happen completely however I think that it would be inevitable. There would be genetic diversity within this one race and that's a good thing. However I think that it would be a distinctly new and distinctly universal race.
Similar things happen with dogs where if you take all the different breeds and let them intermingle, they revert to an average that looks about like this:

There is all sorts of variation though. Many have shorter hair or a lighter color. But they're all about the same.
 Originally Posted by greenhavoc
I don't think mankind's destiny is Earth. I think before we can explore the heavens, we need unity among our race (Human). I think people have a hard time understanding this one race idea because their train of thought is centered on what Earth has to offer, whereas someone like me thinks in terms of what the Universe has to offer.
I see all of humanity as a puzzle, where each religion, culture, ethnicity, etc are individual pieces of this puzzle. Once it has been put together, it then becomes a piece of the Universal puzzle. I just don't see how we can start this journey if we're still living in our own individual worlds, and I certainly don't believe it's in our best interest once we've made first contact to come across as those 'hillbillies' from the Milky Way.
There's a reason our alien meme looks the way it does, and that's because deep in our psyche we all know one race is superior to what we are now.
I think that we're going to have to start solving the puzzle as individual humans, nations and races figuring out how to work together. I agree that the ultimate end product will probably be one race but I think that the best way to get that is to work on all presently existing races getting along.
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