"I believe that some day a great part of the world will be Eurasian."
Considering this was 1890, and that she was experiencing all these prejudices, a remarkable prediction on her part. We're still a ways away, but in 2010, 15% of new marriages in the U.S. were interracial. [1]
Technology and time removed frontiers, people used to be tribes, then burgs, then kingdoms, nations, USofX. Soon the notion of native, race and country may be very very blurry.
Apropos of nothing much, sometimes, when I visit friends who are now married (to people from very similar genetic backgrounds) and have children, I look at them and their spouse and their children and how eerily similar they all look, and it creeps me out a little. Feels like some kind of repressed incest vibe.
Not often, but sometimes. It creeps up on me. I generally do not say this out loud :)
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 24.4 ms ] threadConsidering this was 1890, and that she was experiencing all these prejudices, a remarkable prediction on her part. We're still a ways away, but in 2010, 15% of new marriages in the U.S. were interracial. [1]
[1] http://mic.com/articles/87359/national-geographic-determined...
Not often, but sometimes. It creeps up on me. I generally do not say this out loud :)