Sci-Fi and Diversity
As a fan of Sci-Fi I watch a lot of films set hundreds of years into humanity’s future. Almost all of the recent films feature diverse casts. Whites, Blacks, Asians, Latinos, Arabs populate colonies on Mars and stations in the Kuiper Belt. And while I can imagine that in the future humanity will be a multi-planetary species I can not imagine that humanity will look like how it is portrayed in these films. If we get on board with the multicultural project will humanity’s future be ethnically diverse?
Riccardo Orizo has studied small homogeneous populations and what happens to them when they are surrounded by other races. The Dutch Burghers of Ceylon, the German slaves of Jamaica, the Confederates of Brazil, the Poles of Haiti, the Basters of Reheboth, and the Blancs Matignon in the Caribbean -all six groups studied inevitably interbred with their neighbors and their unique genes and culture were lost.¹
Diverse casts are a trend of our present but they are a lie when projected into the future. Human bio-diversity has developed only through long periods of isolation as the species has adapted to unique environments all around the globe. The present push for multiculturalism will quickly undo this millennia long development. Races that were once isolated will be gathered from around the globe, brought into close proximity and inevitably begin to mix.
In an ironic twist, we see that the present interpretation of “diversity” will in fact destroy diversity in the future. If multiculturalism succeeds we won’t have distinct races in the future. All the diverse colors and cultures of humanity will mix like paint shaken in a bag. Instead of the two beautifully unique cultures of say, Japan and Kenya, we’ll have a single, watered down hybrid. Maybe this is progress. Maybe it isn’t. But if it’s the project we are being sold I believe we deserve to see what it might look like depicted in our Sci-Fi.
But that’s not what’s happening. Instead we are being told we can love diversity and multiculturalism -and multiculturalism won’t cannibalize diversity. Which brings us to a question. If the multiculturalists love diversity why aren’t they showing multiculturalism’s logical end?
At the surface level they do this for money. Multicultural shows appeal to a broader market and ensure a broader audience. Also, some producers have likely never thought about the long term implications of multiculturalism and naively project the present into the future -whole cloth. Still though, can we believe this “naivety” excuse applies to everyone in the industry? Doesn’t there have to be some producers with the foresight to write a realistic Sci-Fi with a mixed human race? These people are not dumb. I wager this omission is purposeful.
Is it possible that the elites in the media fear that showing multi-culturalism’s true end would reveal their hand too soon? What don’t they want you to know? Why won’t they show you a future when diversity is gone and replaced by sameness? History is clear, multiculturalism will end diversity and we deserve to be shown this if its the project we are agreeing to.
For those of us who love human diversity we have to make a choice. Do we want human diversity to end? Or do we want multiculturalism to end? We love Sci-Fi because it lets us escape into a new world, a more exciting world. Is the new world we dream of the one we are being sold?
[1] “Lost White Tribes, Journeys Among the Forgotten,” Ricardo Orizio, 2001.
[2] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2013/09/17/visualizing-change/
