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In that case, a low-status man who wants to crack the social barriers (and who cares about his offspring) must save enough to purchase high-status mates for both himself and his children.
And since allergies rarely shorten life spans or discourage mates, it is unlikely natural selection will ever weed them out.
The computer's version of this is a switching between two stable states (unstable mates), but of course any shuttling begets an element of instability, wobble, neitherone-thing-nor-the-other.
Since the society was heavily male, the prohibition on unions between white women and nonwhite men also lessened the white men's competition for mates.
Perhaps I can find some soul mates in "The Fray."