Without any physical difference globally. You couldn’t tell someone from China apart from central Africa for example.
What if humanity always had the same race?
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Without any physical difference globally. You couldn’t tell someone from China apart from central Africa for example.
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Well we are all the same race. Different regions and genetic accommodations/mutations will still realistically change how we look. Just like how domestic cats are always going to be able to breed with each other, even if they have different coats.
But taking this out of the picture- the concept of regardless of region we all look the same, classism would probably increase, which would probably mean less human rights.
Their would still be no peace humanity will always find somthing to fight each other over.
They’ll be racist based on language and dialect then.
less racism more geniticism. which would be racism but with genetics.
If overpopulation occurs, even people of the same race starts fighting each other so they will just create a new race for their enemies so only they themselves belong to the original race that the Earth belongs to.
So more races will just be created.
We already are the same race; we just have different features due to our adaptation to our individual regional climates and environment.
Aliens probably couldn’t tell humans apart by race.
We would find some other way mark otherness in people, so we could create underclass groups.
Tribalism. Even those who look the same and are from a similar gene pool find ways to differentiate.
We’d find other ways of distinguishing in group and out group. Humans are flexible like that.
I read a story once about the application of Star-shaped tattoos on the belly to indicate group affiliation. I remember thinking the premise was ridiculous but the world building and characterization was particularly effective. A wonderful piece of science fiction.
We’d still find ways to hate and fight each other. There are plenty of areas that are racially homogeneous to outsiders, but they are in fact divided by tribe, clan, family, etc. They can spot “others” readily and treat them accordingly.
Even in the First World people will look down on others for being from another city, having a certain job, or being for the “wrong” sports team.
There would always be something.
We’d find some other way to hate each other. Like those disgusting people with outy belly buttons
We did in the beginning. We all came from Africa.
You mean, the human race?
Oh man that would be sick!! 🎉
You mean the human race?
Either those who lived at equatorial latitudes would get skin cancer, or those who lived at temperate and polar latitudes would get rickets.
It does. We are the human race. Just like dogs are dogs no matter what colour or size.
Places like the Balkans, Rawanda, and parts of the Middle East show this would mean nothing
We would find another reason to hate each other, like class.
Race is a social construct.
That being said, some of the most obvious differences in appearance are related to what environments your ancestors settled in. Eye shape, nose shape, hair type, and skin color can all provide benefits in certain ecosystems if altered in certain ways. So, a humanity who could not gain those adaptations would have struggled more outside our original ecosystem in Africa. We would have had more difficulty spreading around the world.
Also, given how human psychology works, if we all looked more similar, we would either use smaller differences to differentiate and discriminate against other groups of people, or find a completely different reason to hate each orher
I’m sure that we would start forming Caste’s like what the Indians did.
We still have plenty of other stuff to fight and wage wars over
Wherever there is light there is shadow to be found as well
As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist
The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace initiates wars and hatred is born in order to protect love.
If Lovecraft can hate people who look exactly like him but live more than 30 miles away from his town, we can find reasons to despise each other no matter what.
If we all had identical appearance we’d be poorly adaptable to different environments and have major identitiy issues.
But we’d sitll have race as a social construct.
The Civil War would have never happened.
This is stupid. Our ‘race’ is defined by evolution, which – in part – is defined by environmental factors.
And even if – somehow – everyone was one race, then we – being stupid humans – would fight over something else. Tall vs short, beautiful vs ugly etc etc.
Why can’t we just accept the basic idea of human dignity for one and all, without imposing our own personal beliefs onto others.
We will find any other reason to hate each other’s.
Race is a social construct. There already is only one race. If everyone had the exact same phenotype aka everyone looked the same, it wouldn’t change much imo. People would find some new means to otherize groups they don’t like.
Consider sub Saharan Africa for instance. There is a bajillion different ethnic groups there and to us foreigners they are all mostly indistinguishable.
Differences that we associate with race are small and superficial. If we didn’t differentiate ourselves based on that, we would find something. There’s a book series I read that has a caste system based on eye color.
The planet would probably be a lot smaller
We are all the same race. We just call it different so we can label the physical differences between us.
The answer is simple when you understand the reason. When someone shows up and takes your stuff, or kills people, or whatever, they give you reasons to hate them. You in turn need to make up reasons to hate them and not the next dude to come over the hill. The genesis of racism was wars, raids, and despicable acts done by someone from afar and the fear it brings down. Teaching people to be distrustful of the alternative motives of people from afar, easily spotted because they don’t look like “this”.
Fast-forward a smidge thousand years, as humans continue to do this.
Humans don’t actually care about skin color, eye shape, nose size or any of that shit. (Beyond attraction and a few other factors) We simply make up reasons to hate people. So, if we all look the same then we move on to schools, sports, and whatever shit humans can justify to hate someone no matter how small and petty. It’s not about the differences but the justification of a behavior.
Racism, like all forms of hate, isn’t about race. It’s about the reasons they’ve concocted to hate someone, the skin is just the vector they’ve chosen to vent at.
LOL? What is the point of this? This question needs to be asked, because this shit always leads to a fascist circle jerk.
There wasn’t really any physical way to distinguish between Jewish and non-Jewish people in Nazi Germany, yet hatred came about all the same. Where physical differences don’t exist cultural and social differences will take their place as reasons to be prejudiced.
Race is a social construct.
There is much more genetic variation between a Maasai and a Pygmy, then between a Maasai and a European.
There’s no evidence of “race” it’s a Victorian science concept, with an attempt to justify the superiority of Europeans to everyone else.
If we’re still thinking about race, well, we’re still thinking about astrology.
Bad science seems to push out good science.
Bad information always pushes out good information.
We would probably end up with something like the Indian Caste system but globally
People will still find ways to divide
Since Neanderthal got extinct we are all the same race, homo sapiens. So what’s the question? It’s been long enough we are all the same race. There were many before.
Then we would kill one another over language, or music preference, or choice of toothpaste.
Since race was invented in the late 19th century I would say people would be judged on behaviors, culture, civility like it was before that time.
We have. We just made up differences that didn’t really exist.
Fuck politicians. They were the ones who chose to divide us for their own profit
I suggest watching the Dr Seuss Sneetches cartoon.
Humans like to classify things to excess. They would just use the other ways.
We’d just find something else to bitch about.
Them vs us has always been a thing, even within very homogenous populations.
Personally I’m of the conviction that the only thing that could unite the human race would be the advent of an alien attack, anything short of that would juts be varying degrees of squabbling.
No longer spending energy on a race war, we start focusing on the class war.
I assume you’re talking about things like skin tone and other things of that nature. Differences will still come up due to regional differences. However we would still have reasons to raise conflict between one another.
Even among similar ethnic groups people will still have hatred over accent, perhaps cultural or linguistic differences.
prob nothing changes maybe racism decreases due to the lack of blacks but still
Damn that’d be boring af.
people would still find something else to discriminate against
Racism isn’t about skin color 99% of the time. Skin color is only an easily recognizable way to categorize or “group” people together. Actual hatred comes from differences in culture. Unless we had one homogeneous culture, there would still be hate.
We already don’t have races. We have different ethnic groups that we decided to consider as races by random features.
Greed and discontent will always play a role in society. It’s imbedded in our DNAs as a survival trait.
We would fight over religion or eye color or some other stupid thing.
They would still find a way to discriminate against other people.
You would just get classism instead of racism
Then how will certain people know who to hate?
Human Race
Most wars in history took place between different groups of the same race. Most slaves throughout history were the same race as their captors.
Very little would change
We would find a way to tribalize and hate others.
ITT What are accents and dialects
We would find something else obvious to form tribes over.
Isn’t it interesting that we already are all one species, but the perception of differences is what makes this question possible?
I know there must be a word for that…
What about NASCAR?
It would be one less thing for people to complain about.
we’d probably come up with different reasons for hating each other like how the mods on r/vent just randomly attack people for no reason. some people just love hating people
That depends highly on which race.
Which race? The Indianapolis 500?
People would still find a reason.
Nah.
I want purple pussy.
And green pussy.
And blue pussy.
Imma tell god we need MORE races. Let’s get some alien DLC is this bitch.
Then we would hate each other over nationality instead (as is now the trend), or there would be purely class oppression (as there already is), or hate each other based upon sectional divides, or ethnic lines, or religion, or political parties, or anything else that we already divides ourselves upon. Race is just one of those things, and it often coincides with ethnic/national/economic lines which only enhances the hatred.
You mean like Western Europe for the entirety of human history up until 80 years ago?
There would still be wars
Have you heard about the 30 years war?
Than we will instead discriminate on hair color than.
Human = hue + man. Hue is colors, or shades of color. There is only one race. Humans, which are broken down by culture and physical differences. Don’t allow what is going on, and what you hear, to confuse your mind. 🤔
It does. It’s the human race. Everything else is just different ethnicities. And personally I think the division comes from cultural differences and historical conflicts. Yes even “black” and “white”
We would find something else to differentiate groups of people and therefore segregate and discriminate against whatever groups we weren’t in.
We can all have the same everything and we’d still find a way to shit on each other.
Ah, humanity, truly the heaven’s favourite idiots.
We would just find some new criteria: right vs left hand, roll your tongue vs no, eye color, double-jointed. There’s certainly a reason to alienate people and then fight them.
Then we’d kill each other over cultural reasons. or economic reasons, or becuase some people are dam yankees and some people root for the Red Sox.
There would either be significantly more cases of rickets at the upper latitudes or significantly more cases of skin cancer near the equator.
We’d divide over eye color instead probably
Differentiation is necessary for survival. Pandemics will sometimes decimate entire populations while others survive because of genetic variation. If there were only one race we could all be wiped out if a virus mutates just the wrong way.
Well. Now you’ve done it! Race doesn’t exist! We made it all up. It’s only a thing if you want to isolate other people for some reason. Yes. There is a list of ‘races’. But biologically, nope!
Now, all you green-eyed people, wait for the green-eyes-only bus!
Like we don’t already kill ourselves over more realistic endeavors like who you believe is God or what’s the role of government?
Middle East/ Africa might be relatively calm though. Lot of minor race wars going on.
Even if we, say, had all the same skin color, we’d probably be arguing about hair color, eye color, cultural differences, etc. Meaning humanity always finds a way to hate itself.
Different families and lineages we can never get rid of can always serve as a basis of discrimination. This partial why things like caste systems were so prevalent in the past.
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We’d still find something petty to hate each other with.
>What if humanity always had the same race?
Race doesn’t exist. And humans are all the same species.
Do you mean like if humans stayed as one of the early homo speacies?
>Without any physical difference globally. You couldn’t tell someone from China apart from central Africa for example.
So you mean what if all humans looked like clones of each other?
Nothing would change.
We’d come up with some other excuse to treat people like shit.
Look at the Balkans. Absolutely nothing would be different about humanity in this timeline.
We would still be able to tell, and whatever differences we perceive would be regarded as very significant.
Humanity is one race
Technically, we are all of the same “race”, because we are all of the “human race”. If we all had the same skin color though and couldn’t tell much difference in between people of different nationalities, then humanity would just find other ways to judge and hate one another. We are just stupid like that.