AHC: Significantly More Racial/Ethnic Admixture

Alright, after trying for like thirty minutes to figure out how to word this without making it seem like a flamewar magnet...

I'm looking for ways to eliminate or greatly reduce the distinct classifications of races in the world, or, at the very least introduce enough of a racial admixture to each separate distinctive racial group early enough to reduce the distinctiveness of each racial group. In other words unite racial identity as much as possible by the present day.

Colonization both intentional and accidental would be the best (only) option for some time but I'm looking for specifics.

POD cannot be prehistoric (in other words, the races must first split, then reintegrate) and I'm trying to avoid violent integration as much as possible. NO GENOCIDE.

Significantly more racial mixing by the present day... and GO!
 
NO modern racism for sure. No pseudohistoric theories... No spanish 'limpeza do sangre' as an earlier start (albeit it was complex - pale native lords could have a surprising nice position I heard, like the 'House of Montezuma' nobles..).
 
That's the whole point! :D

Just trying to get there...

The Romantism movement and the reaction against the Lumières is an heavy aspect of it...

Maybe the french revolution ideals spread around more, or gain a better view? Now, I know, Napoleon - heir of those ideals in quite a way - was hypocrital toward it at times, like Haiti, but...


Maybe for Spain's side... Portugal uniting and leading the land around? (Unless they have similar ideas..)
Or cliché maybe, but.. muslims into europe, so... Islam forbid racism, claiming all men being brothers under God...
 
The Romantism movement and the reaction against the Lumières is an heavy aspect of it...

Maybe the french revolution ideals spread around more, or gain a better view? Now, I know, Napoleon - heir of those ideals in quite a way - was hypocrital toward it at times, like Haiti, but...


Maybe for Spain's side... Portugal uniting and leading the land around? (Unless they have similar ideas..)
Or cliché maybe, but.. muslims into europe, so... Islam forbid racism, claiming all men being brothers under God...

Another thing I was thinking was from an earlier thread I posted involving repeated accidental colonization of the New World, i.e. Viking/Norse diaspora before the Little Ice Age, Mali settlers in South America, Chinese lost in Mexico, etc.

When Europeans arrive there are Natives with White, Black, and Asian ancestry respectively.

More colonization in the Old World, earlier discovery of land and water paths to the East, etc. would also be a good start.
 
Alright, after trying for like thirty minutes to figure out how to word this without making it seem like a flamewar magnet...

I'm looking for ways to eliminate or greatly reduce the distinct classifications of races in the world, or, at the very least introduce enough of a racial admixture to each separate distinctive racial group early enough to reduce the distinctiveness of each racial group. In other words unite racial identity as much as possible by the present day.

Colonization both intentional and accidental would be the best (only) option for some time but I'm looking for specifics.

POD cannot be prehistoric (in other words, the races must first split, then reintegrate) and I'm trying to avoid violent integration as much as possible. NO GENOCIDE.

Significantly more racial mixing by the present day... and GO!

Doesn't work.

Racial prejudice comes from spotting differences both in appearance and culture. In racially varied societies racism is still strong. In Jamaica light skinned blacks traditionally looked down on darker blacks. In India light brown treat dark brown differently and vice versa.

Koreans regard themselves as one people but in Korea lighter skin colour Koreans talk negatively about Koreans with a darker skin tone.

In Africa Bantus treat pygmies differently.

Unless EVERY human looks the same the argument falls.
 
Doesn't work.

Racial prejudice comes from spotting differences both in appearance and culture. In racially varied societies racism is still strong. In Jamaica light skinned blacks traditionally looked down on darker blacks. In India light brown treat dark brown differently and vice versa.

Koreans regard themselves as one people but in Korea lighter skin colour Koreans talk negatively about Koreans with a darker skin tone.

In Africa Bantus treat pygmies differently.

Unless EVERY human looks the same the argument falls.

Not quite. There was a different racism back in the past, not always so racialist. Rome, by example, shown that a black roman was superior to a white barbarian.

It's 19th century and it's fumous ideas that brought a different, modern form of racism, racialist. And, important to said, taken by colonised and non colonised non occidental nations as well. Like Jamaica, an once slaves based economy and colony.


(Disclaimer; I use the word racism for all kind of discrimination based on blood - 'races', but also cultures-ethnicals based such, and anti-semitism.)
 
Actually, East Asia will be less differentiated racially from the Europeans if the Indo Europeans invaded Northern China in Neolithic when the Mongoloid phenotype became defined because in Neolithic, the people of Southern China and also the modern Native Americans don't have the typical Mongoloid features at that time that is why in OTL there are Southern Chinese and South East Asians who look similar to either Europeans and Australian Aborigines.
 
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