Does your partner's ethnicity/race/culture matter to you at all?
814660
Yes it matters to me anyway. I'd much more prefer someone of my own kind to be life-partners with. Why? Because I'm one of those people who believe in sticking with your own. In this world today this melting pot is destroying the cultures and tradtiotns people of all over the world have kept up for long times. Mixing it isn't helping.
956707
if you're more concerned about a persons skin tone, rather than whats inside them, their personality or the things you have in common with them, then I suppose it matters.\n\nrace can cause problems if other family members don't approve for some reason.\n\nBUT: if you truly care about that person, it shouldn't matter, and you should stay with them.
738665
I'm mixed with black and white....so if i count ...I'm married to a white guy and i love him to death!!!! White men are sexy as hell!
279564
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
1165434
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.
638144
I think intercultural relationships have pros and cons.  One big pro being the excitingness of the situation..two different people from different worlds and backgrounds...sharing new ideas and experiences which add spark and makes things new fresh and interesting!  On the flip side... especially when things may turn serious in the long run, ie marriage...marriage in itself is hard enough, add to that two conflicting cultures...makes for alot of different viewpoints and colorful arguements (speaking from experience here!)  On the other hand...personalties play a big part...regardless of culture, religion, or any other difference, if both parties are mature and both personalities compliment each other...I think the success rate is high and this last is probably the best recipe for a lasting and exciting relationship.
312279
yeah! i mean, why not? it's just the color of skin. everybody has different family life, different, backgrounds etc., so whats the difference if they are white/black/asian/isrish/etc? i think it's awesome when 2 people of different colors get married cause it's breaking the barrier that makes it so people have to ask if its ok or not. so yeah, i mean why not?
230719
I can understand your concerns because sometimes interracial marriages can cause many problems such as traditions and so on and so forth, BUT there is nothing wrong with knowing and respecting other customs. \n\nThis is my opinion. If he or she loves that man/woman and wants to date or marry them and they are happy and the person is a wonderful person, then okay. Who cares about what they are, it is who they are and how well they treat your son/daughter. :)
279442
I'm Japanese and my husband is Hispanic.  I don't think people really have complete control over who they fall in love with.  Otherwise, so many woman wouldn't stay in abusive relationships (but that's a whole 'nother ball of earwax).  I think successful marriages are about compromise and chemistry, and you just never know who you might find those things with.  Besides, dating would be so boring if we were limited to racial common denominators!\n\nBy the way, my mom and sister are married to Anglo men, and my brother is dating a Hispanic.  My in-laws, on the other hand, would have preferred my husband to marry another Hispanic.
1131150
Well I'm white and have 2 children with a Philipino man, not really East Asian but Pacific Islander. Not togrther anymore for now 5 and a half years, huge cultural difference! I dont think I would date another other than my own or hispanic.
1134174
I don't have any problem with interracial couples, the color of the skin really doesn´t matter
975560
Because culture determines values (what we think is important in life), it can certainly cause problems in a relationship if the two cultures are very different.  However, I could list a lot of long-term relationships in which the two people came from different cultures and made it work.  I think you need to really look at your values - what you share and what you don't - beforehand, and you should give the relationship a lot of time to be sure before you do anything like get married or have children if you know there are likely to be issues.  Then you need to remain vigilant and conscious of the likelihood that you might not always be looking at things the same way whenever you have problems.
796492
yes i am, me and boyfriend have been together for almost two years now and He is Afican American and Im Native American and we have a ten year age difference. We have many differences but we also have a lot of common ground between us. If you have anymore questions just ask away i would be happy answer
580196
Go for it. I am a White man married to a Black Woman. It is very acceptable and we have no problems. I get along well with her family and my family loves her as well. She has two sons from a previous marriage and I get along well with them.
1125931
It depends on the girl because I'm asian (mixed: chinese and vietnamese) and I'm dating a black guy.
735720
Does it really matter??
37169
No what does skin color have to do with it? It is about good communication and respect for one another, and not caring what others think and not letting outside opinions effect your marriage.You are the only two in it.