MLK+Writing+Prompt

In a world where all people are segregated based on their race as well as their other physical features I can only imagine one possible end result. This would initially follow the old Chinese method of isolation. Based on my knowledge of human behavior and tendencies I believe that world would simply become a warzone until one “race” controls the planet. This scenario could pan out in many different ways depending on the point in time that the segregation began. The course of events I will be presenting will follow a timeline in which the many different groups had never had contact but were living in there own city-states, grew their own food, had similar technology to the time period of World War II, and suddenly encountered each other. First contact between these groups would more than likely result in confrontations resulting from fear. Each group would think themselves superior to the other and would as a result try to assert control over the other group. This would cause fairly small scale wars between the groups, with similar battles playing out across the globe as other groups located each other. The easiest way I can think of to explain this world is something close to a game of “__Risk__” due to the slim to none chance that there wouldn’t be similar groups on different continents. As the fighting continues certain groups will begin to dominate their respective regions and would become more radical in their ideals and methods. Around this point groups from other countries and continents will begin to locate one another. This would cause even larger scale wars to occur which would consume the planet, and as similar groups joined together to battle their common enemies the death toll would increase exponentially until one race reigns supreme over the planet. As soon as one race establishes global dominance then there are multiple paths that they could take. One path would be to continue with the idea of genocide and simply eliminate all other races on the planet that could be found. As genetic mutation occurs this would cause the human population to diminish as anyone who was born different would be executed. The gene pool of the human race would become stagnant and as a result humans would eventually become extinct. Another possible path would be a slightly more likely option. As time progressed after the wars natural mutation would occur causing multiple races to reappear which would either be instantly slaughtered, enslaved, or segregated, the last two being more likely. Over a long enough period of time this world may evolve into something similar to our current world with similar struggles appearing as certain races try to become equal with the dominate race. Though this could possibly take hundreds of years in the end it would more than likely leave the world as it is now.
 * A World Divided**