One really nice thing about Traveller is the matter of race, as we know it, is completely dead.
So your skin is darker and your hair is very curly? And what, Human?
The difference between Caucasian and Negro becomes utterly meaningless in a universe where there's Hominid descendants from planets around other stars who are genetically incapable of interbreeding with Terran stock.
Humaniti as a whole is a totally different issue than our petty squabbles.
There's the three major races of Humaniti: All are descendant of Homo Sapiens.
Vilani
Solomani
Zhodani
Then there's lots and lots of minor races (49, maybe 50). Most are descendant of Homo Sapiens but some may be descendant from Homo Erectus, the scientific jury is still out in IY 1109.
The ones I have stats for:
Acheron
Anakandu
Answerin
Azhanti
Darrian
Dynchia
Floriani
Geonee
Iltharan
Irhadre-Habbrut
Kargol
Luriani
Nexxie
Otrai
Suerrat
Sylean
Yilean
With all this variety, minor variations in skin color matter much less. A Terran is likely to get a, "So you're black? At least your a major!" in response to discrimination.
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