{"id":246450,"date":"2020-06-24T05:31:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T12:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=246450"},"modified":"2020-06-24T06:09:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T13:09:14","slug":"why-mixed-is-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/24\/why-mixed-is-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mixed is Better"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a superior form of fighting compared to more \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pure\u00e2\u20ac\u009d martial art forms like Tae Kwon Do, boxing, wrestling, etc. Thus shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t we extend this notion \u00e2\u20ac\u201d mixed things, hybrid things, mixed people, mixed ideas are better than \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pure\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pure-bred\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mutts\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are stronger than purebred dogs. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let us consider &#8230; the more we mix genetics the better. A simple pure red dog (often created via incest) is weaker than the mixed bred dog (known as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mutt\u00e2\u20ac\u009d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the bias:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Why do we think that purebred dogs are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153superior\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to mutts &#8230; when actually physiologically the mutt is stronger, more robust, and superior as a physical specimen?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In praise of mixed race kids <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mixed race kids are better. And let us consider &#8230; we are all mixed race. We all eventually come from Africa. There is no such thing as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pure\u00e2\u20ac\u009d race, or a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pure-bred\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why purity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Comes down to social hierarchy. Those on top are the beautiful, chosen. Those on bottom are the <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/18\/the-philosophy-of-ugliness\/\">ugly<\/a>, bad, evil. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a superior form of fighting compared to more \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pure\u00e2\u20ac\u009d martial art forms like Tae Kwon Do, boxing, wrestling, etc. Thus shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t we extend this notion \u00e2\u20ac\u201d mixed things, hybrid things, mixed people, mixed ideas are better than \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pure\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pure-bred\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/PLUM0655-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246450"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246455,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246450\/revisions\/246455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}