I haven't lived in Australia for over 22 years. I haven't even been back on holiday since 2008. But, for anyone who might be following the many neo-Nazi led racist marches around Australia about white purity and preserving Australian culture diatribe, it comes as no surprise to me. Because despite for decades Australia being positioned as a multicultural and welcoming place, that wasn't my experience much of the time. Not all of the time, because there are a mass of great people there. But, like all around the world today, the outspoken minority controls the narrative.
I have always been in a "visual" minority everywhere I have lived, but as far as minorities go, white skin is actually the global minority, with 1.3 - 1.6 billion people identifying as white or of European heritage. That is about twenty percent of the global population, or under. This gives merit to the "Replacement Theory" of a conspiracy designed to replace white skinned people, but also fails to recognise the mathematical reality of species evolution. Contrary to popular racist belief,
We are all the same species.
We can mix.
And we do.
There is no conspiracy about this, because it has been demonstrated for likely as long as we have existed, and illustrated in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. People are attracted to and fall in love, even when their families have different belief systems. And even when being together is going to be difficult to the point of comedic tragedy, as is the case in Shakespeare mocking love itself.
It is natural.
Not because opposites attract, but because in the case of skin colour, the traits that people see as opposites are actually arbitrary. They are meaningless in the context of what people are actually attracted to overall. People who are grouping themselves on an arbitrary trait colour, might have colour uniformity, but across the spectrum of all the things that are important for attraction to an individual, there is a massive, massive amount of diversity. Jeffrey Dahmer, Liberace and JFK were all white. But they weren't all interchangeable, were they?
People aren't fungible.
Even if they look remotely the same.
We are non-fungible tokens, and as such, we have some level of scarcity, and people tend to value what is scarce. Focus on skin colour and it is pretty easy to evaluate, but base it on other traits, and it gets much, much harder. Which is why many people use skin colour as a differentiator, because they don't have the time or intelligence to dig any deeper into what makes people actually different. People marching together arm in arm based on the colour of skin, fails to recognise that in a group of what is very diverse across other factors, they are linking arms with doctors and lawyers and teachers, as well as murders, domestic violence perpetrators, thieves, and whatever else and saying,
"We are all the same."
Really? Are you?
I used to think that there would always be a group of extremes in skin colour, where some group of "purists" from each colour group would maintain itself. However, while this might be true because we are more likely to destroy our species before it has time to balance, I think that from an evolutionary perspective, there is a tipping point where a population can no longer maintain itself, at least healthily, before becoming so inbred that the evolutionary forces will change them anyway.
There is a certain inevitability to skin colour change across the globe, because dating beck to time immemorable, people have mixed, often by force, like in the case of slavery, or in Australia, the rape of aboriginal women. but even without the negative forces, people just tend to find different things attractive, and while skin colour is one aspect, there are many, many more.
Just imagine if the colour of skin was the only factor that was important when choosing a partner in life. This would mean it doesn't matter what kind of person they are, their beliefs, the way they think, their intelligence, the way they look, their body type, their hair colour...
As long as they are white. Or black. Or brown. Or yellow....
While the outspoken minority controls the narrative, the reality of the discussion is on a spectrum. And though the median might shift left or right on the distribution, there is still going to be a hell of a lot of mixing going on across skin colour groups, just because of availability. Not just availability of skin colour, but availability of a range of other factors also.
I didn't see many neo-nazi women marching.
I am sure they exist, but it seems to be a largely male-dominated industry. Which makes me wonder what kind of woman would be in a relationship with these kinds of me, and what kind of family unit it would make. Is it the kind of family that a country would value? I don't know.
What I do know is that identity around "race" is such a stupid identifier, because it tells close to zero about the person under that skin, their thoughts, their behaviours, their abilities. And as said, grouping oneself based on skin colour, pus one into the same category as a lot of people you might not want to be associated with, no matter what colour you are.
Taraz
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