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Our concept of race and identity may change in the future.

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What might humans look like in the future?

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Our concept of race and identity may change in the future.

While reviewing the following slide show collect three pieces of evidence to

support the main idea statement above.

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How might humans change over the next 100,000 years? Nickolay Lamm and Dr. Alan Kwan have proposed the following illustrations and ideas that

describe how and why humans may look different in the future

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“(With) total mastery over human genetics. This human face will be heavily biased towards features that humans find fundamentally appealing: strong, regal lines, straight nose, intense eyes, and placement of facial features that

adhere to the golden ratio and left/right perfect symmetry,”

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“Eyes will meanwhile get larger, as attempts to colonize Earth’s solar system and beyond see people living in the dimmer environments of colonies further

away from the Sun than Earth.”

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“…skin will become more pigmented to lessen the damage from harmful UV radiation outside of the Earth’s protective ozone…and a more pronounced superciliary arch (the smooth, frontal bone of the skull under the brow), to

deal with the disruptive effects already observed by present-day astronauts of cosmic rays outside Earth’s atmosphere.”

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From Joel Kotkin author of The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050

• Over the next 36 years… “there's going to be a very diverse population with large amounts of interracial marriage. What we'll see is that the Anglo-Saxon population will no longer be the majority. I believe the mixed-race population will grow the fastest because compared to the past, interracial relationships are increasingly tolerated and considered OK by a large percent of the younger generations. It's no longer strange to see a black and white couple at a restaurant together today. Yet someone visiting from the 1960s would be shocked.”

Anglo-saxon

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• Over the next 36 years… “I'm almost sure that these categories of racial or ethnic identification will still be as important as they are now. Historically, people were defined in a binary matter by race (black or white). But now more than ever, ethnicity is intertwined with identity and shapes the way people grow, what they believe and their perspectives on a variety of topics. Now, a gay person is the same no matter what race. A conservative is conservative. Thus, these cultural and ethnic backgrounds will be key markers in terms of identity for Americans.”

From Joel Kotkin author of The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050

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The census map shows America's multi-race population as a percentage of county populations.

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How some people are identifying themselves today

• People who reported a background of mixed race grew by 32% to 9 million between 2000 and 2010. In comparison, single-race population increased 9.2%.

• In all, the U.S. population increased by 9.7% since 2000. Many multiple-race groups increased by 50% or more.

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This is a recent Cheerios advertisement

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Our concept of race and identity may change in the future.

Now that you have reviewed the following slide show provide three pieces of evidence to support the main idea statement above.