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[–] Joe_McCarthy [M] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

His example of the importance of genetic diversity was that one shouldn't marry his sister. It's a strange approach at all. Obviously one isn't remotely faced with issues related to inbreeding in simply maintaining a racially similar marriage - even within a country like the US.

The genetic distance between a Moroccan and a European isn't that great. The racialist Lothrop Stoddard even thought Algeria, a similar country next door with the same Berber stock, salvageable as a part of white civilization. Some dude from New Guinea is considerably more distant. If a Moroccan were raised free of Islamic influence in the US and bred with a white person it is even entirely possible that their children would pass with few issues as white socially as if they were fully European ancestrally for all practical purposes.

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[–] Joe_McCarthy 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

In practice a dude from New Guinea raised in America would be unlikely to present as few cultural issues as a potential spouse to a white American as another white American would. He'd be a visible minority with all of the issues involved in that and he might identify some with his country of origin. If one is looking at cultural compatibility of course two white Americans marrying each other would be likely to be preferable. Whites marrying interracially have higher rates of divorce, after all, particularly with white women marrying blacks, and a dude from New Guinea sort of is black as well as having origins outside the US.

It merits noting that the evidence on genetic diversity and stronger bodies, if one takes that to include health, etc., for example, is not uniform:

http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct03/udry10302003.html