What do you thinl about Interracial Relationships?
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1. How old are you? 30\n\n2. What is your race/nationality? Black American\n\n3. Are you male/female? Female\n\n4. Have you ever dated outside of your own race? Yes\n\n5. If yes, What was the experience like? Wonderful\n\n6.Do you believe that interracial relationships can be used to measure racial tolerance? Please explain your answer...\nWell yes,  because 36 years ago they were illegal in most states.\n\n7. Do you believe that people in interracial relationships face challenges and barriers that the same race relationships are not exposed to? explain your answer....\nYes, When me and my bf go out black guys always ask if I’m alright or why am I with him.  Black women always are so angry at me for not wanting a black man.   They say I am selling out or I think I’m too good for a black man.  I think they are jealous because they secretly want to date outside their race.  Same race couples don’t have to deal with perfect stangers critiquing their relationship. \n\n8. How do you think interracial coples can overcome these given barries?  \nIgnore, Ignore, Ignore.  My bf and I know that we care for one another and why we are together.  So ignoring stupid statements and remarks is just part of the territory.\n\n9. Do you believe that interracial relationships can work?  \n\nYes,  I believe that as long as you keep the lines of communication open in any relationship and both parties are open and honest and know where the other stands that any relationship regardless of race can work.\n\n10. what are your peronal views on interracial dating? \nI love it.\n\n11. do your family/friends agree with intteracial relationships?\n\nMy mom and family thinks that I should sit around waiting for a black guy to be interested in me.  I’m like time I wait for no one.  My friends the white ones are totally supportive the black ones are not. My dad says that he doesn’t blame me for going outside my race because he thinks that the black  men of today are lazy, irresponsible and immature.  \n\n12. what do you think about gay interracial couples? \nI say if you have the capacity to love,  you have the capacity to love anyone.
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I think all dating sites allow interracial internet dating. There's not that one I know of that specializes in interracial dating only.
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I think what's essential about someone is not what their race is; race strikes me, in fact, as a sort of arbitrary designation (we could maybe say this even about ethnicity, which is at least *more* justified, more of a "real" thing, and more meaningful). In some cases, you get widely different "races" within a single culture -- e.g. Latin Americans can be of "white European" descent, African descent, native North/South American descent, Asian descent, or any mixture of these things. My boyfriend is a very racially mixed Peruvian, and his point is, "Well if we're going to talk about race rather than culture... what race am I?" \nI think it'd be great when many more of us can ask this question; race will become a thing of the past...\nSo I very much like the idea of interracial dating and interracial marriage. Well, to be more precise, I think it actually doesn't matter at all, since as I said, race isn't the essential thing about a person; what matters is whether you love each other and connect in a deep way and can be happy together. So in this (the most fundamental) sense, I'd say it's no better or worse than dating someone of one's own race (or ethnicity, or culture); it just doesn't make a difference. But insofar as it's not simply neutral in this sense, I'd say interracial dating/marriage is actually a really *good* thing, since it takes us further and further away from segregationist attitudes and racial stereotypes and biases.\nProgress is good...
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I'm all about any interracial dating. The children always turn out beautiful. Not only that, there are so many beautiful people in the world, why limit yourself to your own race? What if you miss out on the man or woman of your dreams just becasue he or she happened to be a different race and you were too ignorant to accept that?
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I think it's natural we are attracted by people who are different from ourselves. \nYou're not a hypocrite!!! Not at all. Many of us find other races attractive but only some of us are ready to talk about it directly. Those who hide the truth are hypocrites. The problem is that former generations rarely allowed the couples to mix. I think it was the matter of identity and fear of being judged by other people.  \nFortunately, world has changed now and people have changed as well. We are used to a view of 'mixed pairs' and I love the view! I dream I will also be in such relationship someday...
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Man... some of you people have real issues!  My wife is black and I see none of any of this crap some of the answers have been spewing!\n\nSome of you need to wake up, throw away those stereotypes and look at reality.\n\nWhere I live you see more and more BF/WM couples.  Like another answer said, this is the fastest growing IR relationship type.  \n\nWhen people start to realize people are people, regardless of race, then, this country can really start to do great things!
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Yes. \nI am white.... caucasian.... pigment deficient... whatever you want to call it. I've dated (and married) women of other races throughout my life. The darker the skin, the more racism we experienced. I did not feel it from many outsiders, just mainly from my family... until I dated black women and eventually married two of them. Then I experienced it pretty much everywhere we went, to different degrees... both from blacks and from whites. \n\nMe and my second wife broke up in '94, and since then I haven't been in an interracial relationship... not by choice - just happened to fall in love with someone that was a little short of pigment.\n\nI don't know your reason for asking. I personally think that we should all love whoever we are meant to love and never make a choice based on color of skin. I will say however that in interracial relationships, there is a lot of additional pressure and outside resistance and negativity that doesn't exist in "same color" relationships.\n\nIt amazes me how in all other aspects of life, we LIKE contrast and are drwn to it. "Wow, I want that white car with the tan interior." "Those kaki pants look great with that red shirt." "I love the colors that you have picked for your house... they really compliment each other."\n\nExcept when it comes to the color of our skin.\n\nAren't we referred to as "THE human race" and "humanKIND?" \nNotice that neither word is plural.\n\nOZ
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While I don't like the idea of mixing the races, I have known some nice couples who were in mixed marriages.  We are living in the 21st century and things are changing.  Most my black friends don't want any white woman dating their men.  Most my white friends don't want to date black men.  However, in our extended family, there is a white man married to a black woman.  We have had to accept it.  Either you accept the facts as they are or you will lose the person you love.
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I think its fine. But to be honest I would much rather prefer to date/marry in my race not because of skin color or nothing like that but because If I date someone of a differenace race  I know it will always be a issue and if we ever got in a fight He might call me some racist terms  and ya know how it goes... and someone in my race can't do that
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I consider myself a very attractive latina women. I have noticed that alot of different types of men find me attractive. Recently I have noticed an increase in black and hispanic relationships. I think that it is a beautiful thing, to be able to date whoever you want. It has to do with love and respect not color.
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this one is so hard\nI (im japanese) used to have a relationship with\nan african man. and my mama said\n"i cant stand my daughter going out with a n*gger!"\nshe was crying...older generation tend to be stuck\nin racism and stereotype\nmy she slowely calmed down as I stayed with him\n2 years and half and she had chances to know\nhim and see him in a casual way ( i mean it was not\nmeeting-my-girldfriends-parents-situation)\n\nits really hard because we all know racism is wrong\nand if you talk this in public everyone agrees\nbut at home...they are more opened...\ni have to say if you really want that interracial relationship\nyou have to have believe in yourself and be strong
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I have a inter-racial marriage.... I've dated guys of several different races.... race is just the color of the skin for the most part... each person is different in many ways.... in which the color of their skin does not matter and does not change anything.... I'm white if you look at me... but, when you take history of mankind in to account.... we are all mixed...
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I think biracial people have the best of 2 worlds they're created from.  Some of the most beautiful people in the world are biracial or multiethnic.  You have two heritages to be proud of.
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I have no idea. I have dated other races and think there is nothing wrong with it.
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It really depends on the maturity level of the people involved...Whether it is the two in the relationship, the family that the couple has close ties with, and everyone else who may possess an opinion that has value.\n\nAny relationship can work, with the commitment of both individuals involved. Certainly a couple shouldn't see their differing races as a point of conflict, rather a platform of opportunity. If both people are inquisitive and accepting, then there isn't any limit to the level at which they can function in both worlds.\n\nMany people still maintain old prejudices, and it's difficult to escape from that. It can be done.\n\nIf you're currently in that situation, the best of luck to you!
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From personal experience, I don't think its wrong. It shouldn't matter who you love or what race they are. All that matters is that you are in a loving, caring relationship.\nBe prepared though that not everyone will feel this way and not everyone will support you. There will always be people that will have something negative to say about your choice of partner. However the world is becoming more tolerant to such issues because there are way more interracial couples and babies out there nowadays.\nWhen my parents first got married, my grandfather asked them "what are you going to do with the children?"...my mom is black and my father white...and my mother replied very smartly ..."name them".\nMy grandfather didn't even want to be seen in public at a restaurant with my mother back then but now he's gotten used to the idea of my sister and I and now loves to take us girls shopping and spoil us rotten.\nI like being mixed. I think I have the best of both worlds. I don't consider myself black and I don't consider myself white. I am mixed race. I am equally black and equally white. I wouldn't choose one or the other if I had the chance.
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I DO. I'M MEXICAN AND MY BOYFRIEND OF 2 YEARS IS WHITE. IF YOU LOOK AT HIM HE HAS GREEN EYES AND SPEAKS ENGLISH ONLY HE'S WORKING ON HIS SPANISH THOUGH. AND HIS PARENTS ARE MEXICANS (GO FIGURE)! BUT HE WAS BORN AND RAISED HERE AND ALL HE KNOWS IS ENGLISH. HE'S ALSO LIGHT SKIN COLORED. I BELIEVE THAT'S INTERRACIAL DON'T YOU BUT ANYWAYS I LIKE THE IDEA OF  INTERRACIAL DATING. I DON'T KNOW WHY BUT ALSO WHEN AN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND A AMERICAN PERSON HAVE BABIES THEY ARE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS YOU HAVE EVER SEEN. I LOVE THAT AWESOME MIX. BECAUSE THE BABY ENDS UP WITH DARK SKIN AND BLUE OR GREEN EYES!!!