History Main / InTheFutureHumansWillBeOneRace

** Alluded to in an early description of 30th century companion Chris Cwej, from the Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures novels, which says that he is, by 20th century standards "the superman" ... and that this was the result of the exact opposite of how [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler certain 20th century politicians]] thought it could be achieved. On the other hand, he certainly ''looks'' white, and his [[SaltAndPepper police partner]] is not only black but comes from a family very proud of their pure African heritage. But it appears that society is on its way to this, more or less.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' subtly hints at this with its human character designs. While characters like Jacob Taylor and Kelly Chambers are pronounced black and white respectively, a large number of major characters, minor NPCs, and people in the background have no distinctive ethnic appearance and predominantly show ranges of light brown skin colors.

* ''WebOriginal/{{Serina}}'' has a nonhuman usage of this trope. The daydreamers are a sapient species of carnivorous marine bird that were originally divided into different cultural groups that could be distinguished by their color patterns and beak shape. The shallows where home to two different groups, the fishers and the pastoralists, that both possess the same grey, yellow, black and white colors but can be told apart by their fishers having a slender narrow beak due to their diet of small, fast prey and the pastoralists having a large, big-toothed beak for killing their larger livestock. Eventually, both groups are invaded by the warmongers, a xenophobic daydreamer culture with black and white colors and even larger teeth for hunting large prey, forcing the shallow daydreamers to ask the tool-using gravediggers for help. With their assistance they win the war and the three cultures becoming more cooperative, over time the interactions between them grow while their differences shrink until none remain. Five million year later, the only daydreamer culture is the novan daydreamer whose colors are a blend of all three while their beaks are narrower than the pastoralists and warmongers but have larger teeth than the fishers.

* In ''Film/TheyClonedTyrone'', we see that the GovernmentConspiracy's operations are often manned by AmbiguouslyBrown people (or in one case described as "white boys with Afros"). [[spoiler: We find out that those people are tests for the conspiracy's attempts to Black people white over many generations, hence creating a future where everyone is one Master Race.]]

* Larry Niven's ''Literature/KnownSpace'' continuity has this happen.
** Partly because improvements in cosmetics make it cheap and easy to change your skin color (and features) to more or less whatever you like, so you can appear to be a member of any race you want -- or like a member of no known actual race. Louis Wu in ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' is sporting a chrome-yellow dye job at the start of the book and is described as looking like a comic-book version of Fu Manchu, but without makeup, he looks like a typical Flatlander: "His features were neither Caucasian nor Mongoloid nor Negroid, though there were traces of all three: a uniform blend which must have required centuries."
* In the ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' series, humanity was gradually moving toward this.
* The second ''Franchise/MassEffect'' novel has a human character looking at the quarians and thinking about how not only quarians but also the various other species tend to look homogeneous. She knows that part of that has to be just that she's unused to those other species and can't pick up on the differences, but even so there aren't serious variations in body size or coloration or anything. Then she realizes that, well, these other species have each become one race, and it's happening to humans too; humans who are purely of any one race are extremely rare. This is also mentioned in the first novel about Anderson, who has half-a-dozen ethnical groups as his ancestors, including Caucasian, Indian, African, and East Asian.
** This ties into ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', where Mordin states that the reason humans have been specifically targeted by the Collectors for their experiments is that humans are far more genetically diverse than any other sapient species in the galaxy.

* In ''Literature/ThePolity'' series, the protagonist, super-spy Ian Cormac, is described as having the golden-brown skin tone which dominates in the Polity. The Polity isn't quite a {{Utopia}} though, more like TheFederation as a benevolent dictatorship. Even then the other characters in the series come in a rather wide variety of colors.

* The world of ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' seems to be leaning this way, but with much bleaker implications than usual. Instead of mixing through many generations, several races are implied or outright stated to have gone extinct. [[OneManArmy Mikasa]] in particular is probably the last Asian person on Earth, which nearly made her very valuable to the HumanTraffickers that planned on selling her into {{sex slave}}ry in her childhood. [[spoiler:It turns out to be an entirely false and artificial situation -- the cast have been living in a self-isolated colony for the last century, with the rulers carrying out Ethnic Cleansing to solidify their power. The rest of the world, as it turns out, has many ethnic and racial groups. This leads to a bit of a FirstContactFauxPas the first time [[CountryMouse Sasha]] sees a Black person and asks about his skin color]].
* In ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'', [[spoiler:the setting is revealed to take place in a post-nuclear apocalyptic world where humanity had to band together to create a unified world government and language after the excessive usage of nuclear weapons in an unspecified World War. Thus, while all of the human characters have shown to be range in different skin colors, would normally be of a different nationality and ethnicity in real-life, according to WordOfGod, are treated as the same race InUniverse.]]

* Hinted at in ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' films; while the humans in the Matrix itself are shown to be more or less split along the traditional ethnic lines, the humans in Zion are frequently of mixed race. Makes sense; people in the Matrix would have a much larger pool of same-race partners than the few freed humans in Zion would.

* In ''Film/{{Bulworth}}'', when Senator Bulworth is on TV in brutal-honesty mode, he suggests that the US should engage in "a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction". Seeing the blank look on the interviewer's face, he re-phrases it more bluntly: "Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color".

* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'': Downplayed. Far future humanity is just as phenotypically diverse as modern-day humanity, but all the tribal and social groups portrayed have members of a wide variety of phenotypes. While all characters are more than willing to snipe at each other for a plethora of reasons relating to culture, religion and customs, race simply doesn't play into it, and it seems that race as a social construct didn't survive the end of the world.
** [[spoiler:The revelation that all currently living humans are clones or the descendants of clones really hammers this trope home.]]

* In the ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' games, the major nations are highly multiracial and multicultural. In an ExpandedUniverse novel, a green-eyed redhead uses the alias "Rabbi Martinez" without arousing suspicion.

** Implied in ''[[Recap/EighthDoctorAdventuresTheYearOfIntelligentTigers The Year of Intelligent Tigers]]'', which takes place on a future Earth colony called Hitchemus (which borders on MarySuetopia, except for the disgruntled tigers) where almost everybody appears to be mixed race. The main OneShotCharacter has a European first name, an Iranian surname, implicitly dark skin, and grey eyes. However, there are two characters described as "Black", and pale-skinned people are "exotic" but aren't considered particularly strange.

** This ties into ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', where Mordin states that the reason humans have been specifically targeted by the Collectors for their experiments is that humans are far more genetically diverse than any other sentient species in the galaxy.

* Part of the background in the ''Literature/CouncilWars'' series, by Creator/JohnRingo. The sheer homogenity of humanity by the 40th century led to Change (a medical procedure, similar in use to modern-day plastic surgery. But involving the changing of your genetic code, with nanites) which allows people to turn themselves into mermaids. Or unicorns. Or anything else they can imagine. [[spoiler: This eventually leads to the Council Wars proper.]]

** [[spoiler: The revelation that all currently living humans are clones or the descendants of clones really hammers this trope home.]]

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_blonde_gene hoax Disappearing Blonde Gene]], allegedly a report by the World Health Organization which turned out to be a hoax. As ''Website/{{Snopes}}'' [[http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/blondes.asp points out]], this prediction is OlderThanTheyThink.

* The future people, or "[[FantasticSlurs Goobacks]]", from the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' [[Recap/SouthParkS8E7Goobacks episode of the same name]]. Much like how their race is a combination of every present-day race, their language is also a combination of every present-day language and sounds like unintelligible grunting. Combined with the fact that they are all bald (even [[BaldWomen the women]]), this makes them seem so alien to present-day folk that "future person" becomes classified as a separate race altogether.

A science-fiction trope, most common in {{Literature}} wherein it's discussed that different races have essentially vanished, and everyone is pretty much within a limited range of color, usually a [[AmbiguouslyBrown medium tan]] so to speak. Contrast with HumansAreWhite, which is basically the opposite idea, as well as the related SocietyMarchesOn.

* Deliberately used in ''Literature/AcrossTheUniverse''. Thanks to a combination of genetic engineering and a small gene pool, everyone on the ship ''Godspeed'' is AmbiguouslyBrown and has very similar facial features. In the first book, Eldest explains to elder that everyone was made one race to remove a potential source of discord. This means that when Amy (who is white and has red hair and green eyes) goes to live amongst the population, no one has any idea what to make of her.

* In ''Captain America Corps.'', the reader is introduced to Commander A, AKA Kiyoshi Morales, the ComicBook/CaptainAmerica of the future. He's of mixed African American, Japanese, Hispanic and Native American descent, and owes some ancestry to ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}}.

* In ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'', [[spoiler:the setting is revealed to take place in a post-nuclear apocalyptic world where humanity had to band together to create a unified world government and language after the excessive usage of nuclear weapons in an unspecified World War. Thus, all of the cast who would normally be of different nationality and ethnicity in real-life, are treated as the same race.]]

* The world of ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' seems to be leaning this way, but with much bleaker implications than usual. Instead mixing through many generations, several races are implied or outright stated to have gone extinct. [[OneManArmy Mikasa]] in particular is probably the last Asian person on Earth, which nearly made her very valuable to the HumanTraffickers that planned on selling her into {{sex slave}}ry in her childhood. [[spoiler:It turns out to be an entirely false and artificial situation -- the cast have been living in a self-isolated colony for the last century, with the rulers carrying out Ethnic Cleansing to solidify their power. The rest of the world, as it turns out, has many ethnic and racial groups. This leads to a bit of a FirstContactFauxPas the first time [[CountryMouse Sasha]] sees a Black person and asks about his skin color]].

* In ''Literature/RangersAtRoadsend'' the protagonists visit a temple, where saints from the distant past are portrayed with green or blue skin, an exaggeration of the known fact that people were more diverse in the past. It is not clear how far the once race thing goes, but the surnames make it obvious that all cultures have mixed - people with all sorts of European and Asian surnames live in the same setting, and have been doing so for a long time. "Yellow hair" is mentioned as an exotic thing that happened in the past.

* Invoked in Creator/ArthurCClarke's ''Imperial Earth'' by an Earthman who remarks wistfully that it'll be kind of monotonous "when" everyone on Earth has bred to "the same shade of beige." He's a touch envious of the main character's darker skin.
* Clarke is something of a fan of this trope, it seems, since in ''[[Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries 3001: The Final Odyssey]]'' virtually everyone is described as having very mixed features, being some shade of brown, with names often not matching their appearance.

* ''Literature/TheCloneRepublic''. Most people are of mixed ethnicity, though most of the main characters don't follow this trope. For example, Freeman is described as "[[StarbucksSkinScale coffee without a hint of cream]]." Also, Japan's descendants have separated from the main empire, and they are said to be unique in their isolationism. The clones are also designed to be white.

* The future people, or "[[FantasticSlurs Goobacks]]", from the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' [[Recap/SouthParkS8E7Goobacks episode of the same name]], provide the page image. Much like how their race is a combination of every present-day race, their language is also a combination of every present-day language and sounds like unintelligible grunting. Combined with the fact that they are all bald (even [[BaldWomen the women]]), this makes them seem so alien to present-day folk that "future person" becomes classified as a separate race altogether.