Racial disappearance

In sociology, racial disappearance is a term used for when an ethnic group or race peacefully and bloodlessly disappears through a combination of immigration by other groups to their homeland, and miscegenation by that group as well as a declining birth rate amongst those people. In the long term, racial disappearance has the same effect as a genocide in that a race is lost to the world forever, although it does not necessarily involve direct brutality and extermination through violent means.
Races claimed to be threatened by racial disappearance
European Whites
Some academics claim that declining birth rates in European White nations, increasing rates of immigration, and increasing rates of miscegenation are a threat to the survival of European Whites. One of these academics is Richard Lynn, who talks of the "Twilight of the European Peoples" and the necessity of averting this.
Far right personalities such as Arthur Kemp have also discussed this concept in great detail and present it as a crisis requiring urgent attention. Theoreticians of racism of the 20th-century who predicted racial decline of white Europeans include Lothrop Stoddard and Madison Grant.
Jews
Many in the Jewish community have expressed concern that high rates of miscegenation with gentiles present a threat to the survival of the Jewish Race. Palestinian birth rates are also much higher than the birthrates in Israel. In the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian birth rate in 5.4 children per woman, while the Israeli birth rate is 2.9 children per woman. In the West Bank, the Palestinian birth rate is 4.2 children per woman, while the Israeli birth rate is still 2.9 children per woman. The total Palestinian growth rate is 3.2%, while the Israeli growth rate is only 1.8%. If these trends continue, the total Palestinian and total Israeli populations could be equal by 2050. This could pose a severe threat to the survival of Israel.
Ethnicities which have disappeared
The Fuegians, an indigenous people at the southern tip of South America on the island of Tierra del Fuego, have disappeared through this process. There is not one full-blooded Fuegian alive today. The exact same can be said of the Taíno American Indians of the Caribbean, who no longer exist in pure form. Additionally, the distinct Aztec civilisation disappeared as a result of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and was transmogrified into the mestizo Mexican nation.
Other examples can be found throughout history of ethnic groups merging, declining and mixing, however rarely has it taken place at a mass racial level. The Bantu expansion can be seen as the marginalisation of the 'Capoid race' by the 'Congoid race'.
Criticism
The validity of the racial disappearance concept has been called into question in some scholarly literature. In Blackness and Sexualities by Wright, Wright and Schuhmann, it is described as "a staple of alarmist rhetoric". Many scientists also claim that race is a social and not a biological concept; and that therefore, the concept of racial disappearance is not meaningful.

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