Hybridisation

Some science fiction story I read a while ago (I think it was David Brin's "The Uplift War" proposed that in the future almost everyone will be a near-uniform shade of light brown - that is, ethnic groups will pretty much disappear due to mixed marriages. I doubt that will happen. I don't have any structured argument as to why...just a feeling that people will cling to ethnicity and race will persist long into the future.

Even space exploration and colonisation, should they ever happen, will tend to follow rather than erase ethnicity, since nations will end up claiming planets and constructing space stations by themselves, once there's enough to go around.

What I've been noticing is that certain kinds of mixed relationships tend to be unidirectional for the most part. There are lots of East Asian women (ethnic Chinese, Japs, Koreans) married to white men, but no E. Asian men married to white women that I know personally, and only one such couple that I know of. On the bus and around town here in Madison, I see lots of black guy - white girl couples, but I haven't seen any going the other way.

I don't know enough about black and white culture in the US to speculate about the latter, but I can come up with theories about the former till the cows come home haha.

I dunno lah...if I'm going to fulfil any stereotypes about Chinese women and white guys, let me be the arse-kicking kungfu assassin babe.

There's a frigging EPIDEMIC of yellow fever at my church. It's kinda funny.

On my mother's side, my sibs and I are the only Chinese grandchildren because my mum's younger sisters married, in order, an Englishman, a Malay, and an American. It's rather ironic that it's my Malay cousins and not us who can speak Mandarin, however, because they went to Chinese school. I feel so bananafied.