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bhc3 | 10 years ago

"I believe that some day a great part of the world will be Eurasian."

Considering this was 1890, and that she was experiencing all these prejudices, a remarkable prediction on her part. We're still a ways away, but in 2010, 15% of new marriages in the U.S. were interracial. [1]

[1] http://mic.com/articles/87359/national-geographic-determined...

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agumonkey|10 years ago

Technology and time removed frontiers, people used to be tribes, then burgs, then kingdoms, nations, USofX. Soon the notion of native, race and country may be very very blurry.