What would the average skin tone and facial features look like after 300 years?

Bread@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 26 points –

What would the average skin tone and facial features look like after 300 years if every partner relationship was interracial until there were no other ethnicities? Just a hodgepodge of DNA. What would the average human look like having a little bit of everything in them?

I just think the idea is neat is all.

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Out of curiosity, I looked up “race” by anthropological terms in the dictionary and discovered that “race” is…

  1. No longer in technical use.
  2. Described as an arbitrary classification.
  3. A socially constructed category.

“Ethnicities” might have been a more suitable word choice for your intended query.

Corrected to ethnicities. However it still is used in words like interracial. So it isn't completely out of our lexicon.

Oh I didn’t meant to imply it has left our lexicon. I was just curious about it since so many people had things to say, and looked it up. You bring up a really fascinating point about “interracial”, though. If there’s a more appropriate alternative to that word, I’d like to know it.