pedanterrific comments on Rational Romantic Relationships, Part 1: Relationship Styles and Attraction Basics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pedanterrific 02 November 2011 10:15:05PM 1 point [-]

Hell, American slavery caused a lot of mixing despite it being entirely based on racism.

You and I have very different definitions of "a lot".

While xenophobia and racism is so much of a part of history and so many cultures, why is all this mixing happening if we are attracted to similar people?

This makes perfect sense. Downvote reversed.

Comment author: juliawise 02 November 2011 10:31:22PM 5 points [-]

23andme says "the average proportion of European ancestry that African Americans have . . . is from 20 percent to 25 percent." I'd call that a lot.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 November 2011 03:12:17PM 0 points [-]

That could be a lot or it could be not so much, depends on what the median is.

Comment author: DoubleReed 02 November 2011 10:35:34PM 1 point [-]

You and I have very different definitions of "a lot".

Remember, people consider Obama black when in reality he's just as white as he is black. One just has to look at the massive variety of shades of skin color that we associate with "African-American" compared to "African" to realize there was lots of mixing.

Comment author: Prismattic 02 November 2011 10:41:04PM *  0 points [-]

Had Obama been born a generation earlier, he would not, in fact, have been able to choose which water fountain to drink at. It is in that sense that people correctly assess that he is black. It is a social construct, not a biological one.

Comment author: dlthomas 02 November 2011 10:43:46PM 1 point [-]

I think that was a part of the point.