I'm very curious about what the effects of mixing blood in children would be, and there's been very little research that I know of.
Actually, there is plenty of research, and most of the research reaches a conclusion consistent with the main point of the submitted article, that people being "mixed" as to "race" doesn't really matter much at the individual level. That's to be expected from Motoo Kimura's now well established theory of neutral molecular evolution,
which fits human populations quite as well as it fits other organisms.
I write this as a western man (American by citizenship, with ancestry from various temperate and Arctic zone European countries) who married and has four children by a woman from Taiwan (whose traceable ancestry is south Chinese, tropical rather than temperate zone). My four children are healthy, smart (by IQ test), and arguably good-looking, and very ambiguous to untrained eyes as to their "racial" heritage. (My oldest son has variously been described as Asian in America, western in Taiwan, "black" in America, and "Hispanic" in America, and could pass as "Native American" in America.) Before I met my wife, I met many people in Taiwan, where I was then living, who earnestly urged me to marry a Taiwanese woman because then my children would be "smarter and better-looking," which seems to be a common cultural belief about half-Asian, half-western people over there. But I really don't have the slightest evidence that my children have been advantaged in any way by their rather divergent "racial" heritage, and actually my marriage was quite assortative,
skin color, personal recreational habits, IQ, etc., etc., etc.
Any man can gain a lot of perspective on life from his wife, and it's important to cherish the differences that will still show up even though most people marry assortatively. A cross-cultural marriage will include plenty of differences of cultural assumptions that make for thought-provoking conversation and a richer family life for both spouses and all the children. We have enjoyed our twenty-six years together.
Congratulations on your 26 years together. Cross-cultural marriages can be challenging but rewarding. I've been with my Chinese wife for only 8 years and we have only one son thus far. Whether in Shanghai or small town Georgia, he usually gets attention as being the most beautiful child in the room ;). I account for any noticed positive traits mostly to my being a proud father (I probably only notice the compliments).
Actually, there is plenty of research, and most of the research reaches a conclusion consistent with the main point of the submitted article, that people being "mixed" as to "race" doesn't really matter much at the individual level. That's to be expected from Motoo Kimura's now well established theory of neutral molecular evolution,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_theory_of_molecular_evo...
which fits human populations quite as well as it fits other organisms.
I write this as a western man (American by citizenship, with ancestry from various temperate and Arctic zone European countries) who married and has four children by a woman from Taiwan (whose traceable ancestry is south Chinese, tropical rather than temperate zone). My four children are healthy, smart (by IQ test), and arguably good-looking, and very ambiguous to untrained eyes as to their "racial" heritage. (My oldest son has variously been described as Asian in America, western in Taiwan, "black" in America, and "Hispanic" in America, and could pass as "Native American" in America.) Before I met my wife, I met many people in Taiwan, where I was then living, who earnestly urged me to marry a Taiwanese woman because then my children would be "smarter and better-looking," which seems to be a common cultural belief about half-Asian, half-western people over there. But I really don't have the slightest evidence that my children have been advantaged in any way by their rather divergent "racial" heritage, and actually my marriage was quite assortative,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assortative_mating
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/39494/assortative-...
as most marriages are. My wife and I are similar in height, build, presence of allergies, myopia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myopia#Epidemiology
skin color, personal recreational habits, IQ, etc., etc., etc.
Any man can gain a lot of perspective on life from his wife, and it's important to cherish the differences that will still show up even though most people marry assortatively. A cross-cultural marriage will include plenty of differences of cultural assumptions that make for thought-provoking conversation and a richer family life for both spouses and all the children. We have enjoyed our twenty-six years together.