Is ethnic mixing healthy or harmful?

[Peceneg]

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[Victor]

It's neutral, surely better than inbreeding in some Alabama style or marrying own cousins like some Muslims do. There are villages in Dagestan which have boom of genetic caused ilnesses, because they're literally relatives to each other. It's considered to be bad to marry unknown people from other villages, instead it marrying from own. The level of inbreeding in highland populations of Dagestan is very high, being second only to the world maximum of first cousins on the Fiji Islands.

Chechens are the opposite, they avoid close marriages having some complicated system for it.

[Katarzyna]

Please define “ethnic mixing”. Do you mean when for example I as a Slav will go for a Germanic or Celt guy and make kids with him?
Or do our ancient components (WHG, EEF, Yamnaya) need to be much different in it to be considered mixing? For instance when I went for a a Chinese guy?

[Abti]

Please define “ethnic mixing”. Do you mean when for example I as a Slav will go for a Germanic or Celt guy and make kids with him?
Or do our ancient components (WHG, EEF, Yamnaya) need to be much different in it to be considered mixing? For instance when I went for a a Chinese guy?

Those guys were pretty white so it’s no problem.

[Abti]

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I’d anecdotally say such relationships are most feasible interenthically when they are very similar but different, in such a time. In that example(s) a Russian-Czech, English-Frisian, A Korean-Filipino, Berber-Arab in that idea. This plays a lot into factors of reject and embrace, so it’s different in other places.

So, overall (is it x1 or x2?), it depends where and you are.

[Abti]

It's neutral, surely better than inbreeding in some Alabama style or marrying own cousins like some Muslims do. There are villages in Dagestan which have boom of genetic caused ilnesses, because they're literally relatives to each other. It's considered to be bad to marry unknown people from other villages, instead it marrying from own. The level of inbreeding in highland populations of Dagestan is very high, being second only to the world maximum of first cousins on the Fiji Islands.

Chechens are the opposite, they avoid close marriages having some complicated system for it.

But what if your cousin is hot tho.

[oszkar07]

Is ethnic mixing healthy or harmful ?

Mixing of certain blood types is physically harmful eg can be dangerous to mother and baby. Although those blood types can be in same ethnicity or race. Some cultures people would have blood test before getting married.

Otherwise I doubt ethnic mixing is harmful, when conquerors went into any territory they often took wives or concubines from local women. Most modern ethnicities are result of some distant historical mixing to some degree.
That said Im not promoting out right mixing as it is nice to keep and preserve cultures and ethnicities too. But if some mixing happens otherwise it is not major big deal imo.

[Victor]

Mixing of certain blood types is physically harmful eg can be dangerous to mother and baby. Although those blood types can be in same ethnicity or race. Some cultures people would have blood test before getting married.

Otherwise I doubt ethnic mixing is harmful, when conquerors went into any territory they often took wives or concubines from local women. Most modern ethnicities are
result of some distant historical mixing to some degree.
That said Im not promoting out right mixing as it is nice to keep and preserve cultures and ethnicities also. But if some mixing happens otherwise it is not major big deal imo.

Neighboring nations and tribes normally mixed with each other on the borders of their living areal, made cultural, linguistic influence on each other, etc.

[oszkar07]

Neighboring nations and tribes normally mixed with each other on the borders of their living areal, made cultural, linguistic influence on each other, etc.

Yes but migrating tribes did too.
The Turks that went from Persia to Anatolia mixed with the locals over time they became more and more mixed in.

The Slavs that went to Southern Europe ... mixed with the southerner's,

point being in above 2 exmples they didn't just mix with original neighbours.

[Petalpusher]

Studies proved there is a sweet spot, that is not too close in relationship but not too far either for the best potential offsprings, it's much closer than people would imagine, something like distant cousins is actually the most preferable. It certainly make sense, because humans evolved and bred that way for millions of years.