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== Literature ==
* ''[[The Clone Republic]]''. Most people are of mixed ethnicity, though most of the main characters don't follow this trope. For example, Freeman is described as "[[Starbucks Skin Scale|coffee without a hint of cream]]." Also, Japan's descendents have seperated from the main empire, and they are said to be unique in their isolationism. The clones are also designed to be white.
* Averted in ''[[Honor Harrington]]''.
**The royal family of Manticore is notably dark skinned. As they don't practice endogamy and in fact are required by law to marry commoners it is not explained how they preserve their complexion which is apparently fairly rare on Manticore otherwise it would not be associated with royalty. Of course they could marry foreigners to preserve the genetic trace but no mention of that is made. In fact no mention at all is made of any attempt to artificially preserve such genetic traits which would be inexplicable otherwise.
**Sphinxians tend to have a disproportionate number of humans bred for heavy gravity. Much of their lineage does in fact come from genetic manipulation (including that of the title character). As Sphinx has notably heavy gravity, those that can't stand it leave or die off or just stay and suffer.
**Grayson's which developed on an isolated planet have a disproportionate number of females. This has resulted traditions of patriarchy (which range from the more or less benign to the tyranical the latter being predominate in the Masadan sect), and polygamy that look somewhat odd to outsiders.
* In the ''[[Polity 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 [[The Federation]] as a benevolent dictatorship. Even then the other characters in the series come in a rather wide variety of colors.
* Possibly intended with dark-skinned ambassador Genly Ai in ''The Left Hand of Darkness''. Possibly, in that while [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] later placed the novel within a universe where humanoid aliens colonized a number of planets including Earth, it fits the general idea of "future with [[The Federation]] and many dark-skinned people".
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