Disgraceful Rider

Just finished reading a book – a thriller about a fire and brimstone American preacher with white supremicist views but who is intelligent enough to retract his views when presented with some research done by a geneticist.  The geneticist shows that certain human branches sometimes suffer from deseases unknown in other branches and that where branches have intermingled the result is a much better specimen.The preacher gets murdered by rednecks who don’t want him to go public to say that we all need to intermingle to take forward God’s great plan. That’s the gist of it.  Coincidentally Writeous Dude and I got talking about our family tree which, on one side, makes Dude one sixteenth Jewish.  Some ancestors came from Prussia c1840s probably to escape persecution.  The two Countries with the greatest mix of races could be America and us Brits.  Americans have only been at it for a short time but we Brits for ages – native Celts, Vikings, Anglo Saxons, Romans, Normans, Jews, Poles, Eastern Europeans, Russians, Chinese, etc.  It must be the case that anyone coming from somewhere where there has been pretty much a single race for centuries, is astonished at the variety of folk they see in Britain.  This process of intermingling of the races must have speeded up tremendously with the ease of modern travel so, if we realised it, we are  already breeding the human super-race and well on the way to having stirred it for a hundred years or more and turning out coffee-coloured people by the score.  Of course we Brits are so much more advanced on this road because of our heritage – particularly if, like Rider, one happens to have been born in God’s own county  :)