Tousi said:
Ah, Rose Immortal's here three minutes ahead of me, saying the same thing I was gonna in her stead!
Thanks...and I am glad to see somebody is reading carefully.
I don't want there to be any mistaken impressions about me. Somebody just made a comment to me I found strange, and I am just wondering if my source was misinformed or not.
BTW, a little background on how the topic came up in the conversation he and I were having, so that you can have the full context. I showed up at Starbucks one day, and I struck up a conversation with a friendly-looking guy who was interested in the fact that I was journaling. He asked if I was writing a book. I said I was, but didn't intend to publish. It turned out this guy was an amateur writer, too, and so we started swapping stories. He started talking about this long, meandering career path he'd taken, which went from the military to corporate employee who writes and (IF I recall correctly!) builds an airplane in his garage. He mentioned he'd been excused from the military on medical grounds...I can't remember what the condition was that he said he had, but I remember it being something fairly small. He said out of nowhere that his condition was more frequently seen in biracial children. To which I said something like, "Huh? I've never heard THAT before." He said it was true, but never told me any kind of proof to back it up. Then the conversation just moved on from there to stuff like philosophies on writing--which turned out to be pretty similar. The most striking thing to come out of the conversation was actually not the genetics comment...it was more that this guy seemed exactly like I hope I will be in middle age: personality, experiences had, outlook on life, all of that. An eclectic guy (that'll be "gal" in my case!) but in a really neat way.
I never really thought much of that comment again until I saw this thread, so I got to wondering once again if the
general consensus of the scientific community (i.e. not a few lone wackos) proves the guy right or wrong. I hope nobody told this guy the wrong thing to upset him or his family as a kid. But even if there is some truth to it, like I said before, it doesn't have any bearing on whether people marry and have kids with people of other races, in my mind. As far as I'm concerned, I'm glad I got to meet this guy I told you about, and I would hate if he'd never been born and somehow I knew about it--there was something really neat about getting to see a kind of "me in 25 years".
