The Future is Asian AND Western
I was talking to a friend the other day (both of us are white) about the differences between Asian and Western culture, specifically the work ethic and the attitudes toward the elderly. He seemed to think that their highly regarded respect for the elderly was a bit over-rated, more of a sense of duty than genuine affection.
We agreed that they can outwork us, though, and that means that, economically at least, they will probably control the future.
Here’s how I see it: First of all, they outnumber us by quite a bit. The Chinese are more numerous than any race on Earth. The Indians are close behind and, while there are obvious cultural differences between them and the Chinese, there are also cultural differences between them and us. Humor me for a moment, I am getting to a point. If you factor in the Africans, the European races are a small minority of people on this planet.
We are all capable of interbreeding. Therefore, it is pretty clear that in 3 or 4 generations from now, say 100 years, the vast majority of the people in the world will be dark skinned and dark haired.
No race has a uniform culture. There are lazy Asians and industrious white people. I remember once I was hitchhiking in Yugoslavia, way back when it was Yugoslavia, probably Croatia today, and I got picked up by a Swedish guy who drove like an absolute lunatic, way too fast for those mountain roads. I mentioned to him that I had thought that Swedes were supposed to be calm, non-crazy type people. I will never forget his response. “Yes,” he said. “That’s why I come here on vacation.”
There are some cultural changes with each generation. Chinese kids who grew up in San Francisco may still honor their parents, in their way, but they are as American as can be. Their English is unaccented, they like the same foods, buy the same products and laugh at the same jokes as their paler skinned co-generationalists.
Everybody wants to be J.R. Ewing. I don’t mean that everybody aspires to ruthless asshole-dom, but pretty close to everybody would like to live in a huge mansion, eat every day in fancy restaurants and have many, many relationships with extremely attractive people of whichever sex you might prefer.
So, in short, I think that the future will be dominated by Asians. But they will be just like us.
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