I agree with you. People need to stop worrying about others do and who they date or marry. Complaining about it won't stop it or slow it down.

I don't mind at all, if more than likely I encourage it :). Love is love and thats what kept ya together right? If parents get in the way, then don't let them deterr who you really love.

My friend was going out with a black guy for a while. She got shit off all of his friends when she tried to be with him and get to know his friends. She even told me people looked at them in disgust when they walked down the street together, I just find that sickening. I don't mind interracial couples whatsoever, people are people no matter what colour their skin is.

They are fine by me

I don't see any problem with it. Besides, I thought people would be over it by now; now everyone's up in arms about gay couples (something else that I have no problem with).
Why the hell do people insist on making other people's relationships their business? And why not focus on other aspects, i.e. is this person nice or a bitch? Personality is way more important than race.

Racism is a stupid thing that only stupid people have inside their peanut-sized brains... Okay, a white guy dates a black girl or vice-versa... so what? The color of the skin is different, so what???? We're all the same, dammit!

When you fall in love with someone, you don't fall in love with him/her because of the color of the skin... you fall in love with the person as a whole. His/her ethnical origins really does not matter...

Serious atrocities have been commited throughout human History because of racial discrimination... nazism, African apartheid, US apartheid... can't we learn from the mistakes of the past?


Quoting my great-grandfather (rest in peace, man...): "Racial discrimination is a serious lack of intelligence."

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I think that inter-racial couples tend to be awfully serious about the fact that they're inter-racial. I think that it would be nice to be able to stare without having a ton of angry people jump down my throat about being intolerant. Maybe they just looked neat.

Less intolerant and more rude, don't you agree?

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More apt: I see what you did there.

But being crass isn't some sort of abject moral failure like racism is!

The only difference is by degrees. You're still an unsightly person either way.

To be honest, I'm rather disappointed that there aren't more interracial couples. It disappoints me how stupid people can be regarding cross-racial dating. And frankly, I hate the term race. We're one species, plain and simple. I believe that potentially, one day, there won't be any racially defining characteristics because we'll have cross-bred so much that we all bear the same physical features (with minor differences in individual people, hair color, face and body type, et al...). I wager we'll all, for the most part, be rather beautiful.

I honestly don't have a preference regarding race. All the girls I've dated have been caucasian, usually of irish or german heritage. I'm a 1/2 norwegian 1/4 japanese 1/4 irish mix myself. However I do find asian and black (I feel really uncomfortable saying that, but the term "african-american" is more uncomfortable for me for some reason) women to be very attractive. I suppose it's the exotic look, the shade of the skin, the eyes, the dark hair, etc etc. But that's just me.

Being that I'm in an inter-racial relationship (I'm white, she's Hispanic), I can't say I have any problem with them. My woman isn't the stereotypical Hispanic woman, but I'm not the stereotypical white guy (at least around here), either.

As it's been said, the biggest "obstacle" is the cultural/personality differences. I've seen many physically attractive black women that I'd never speak (unless it were absolutely necessary) to simply because our personalities wouldn't mesh.

When it comes to white girls and black guys, I think it's the taboo of doing it that makes it so attractive. Black guys are usually more confident and carefree than whities, too. I think black men who date white girls typically do it because of this (but in the opposite light), too. Kinda like stickin' it to "da man".

What's with all of you who are equating "relationship" with love? A lot of the defensive people involved in such relationships are defensive because they're just fleeting fuck-buddies. Are all of you guys saying that it's not ok to lust after big, black dicks or tiny, white buttholes?

You wouldn't be the only one who stares. My fiance and I get that all the time...

Seriously, the point I was trying to get at was that it may be the insecurities of the people within the relationship that causes them to consider otherwise completely innocuous glances and looks as disgusted or condemning.

Also, if they were disgusted or condemning, it might be for other reasons entirely. To start, how would they even know you were in a relationship unless you were performing some kind of public display of affection, which, in various degrees, is disgusting to everyone but the participants.

lurker: this is my apology for being an incompetent troll. We all lapse right? :(

I am white and my boyfriend is Vietnamese/Chinese. No one gives us any problems. A few have looked but probably just to look at us as people, not in a disgusted way because we are inter-racial. Maybe they think we look cool together.

I love him and couldn't care less what people actually thought of the relationship. It isn't their business anyways and their opinion means nothing to me.

I say beauty and love have nothing to do with rce. Some will dissagree but beauty Is beauty nomatter what race. Also if you truly love someone race is most likely the last reason why. Thats just what I believe.

My view on interracial dating may be seen as one that is totally objective, but I think there is nothing wrong there, speaking from experience. I'm a black guy and I'm dating a girl who's white. I think it's actually quite common to see, and I like seeing other couples that are interracial. It makes me happy.

I don't have any problems with it personally, and neither does my father. He said if I wanted to date women of other ethnicity, it's fine with him (I'm Chinese, by the way). My mother thinks otherwise though. ;P

I've seen a few interracial couples here on campus, but it's still heavily skewed.

I have no problem with it. my father does though, even though he denies it.

love is love~

In reference to the automobile industry...

I know it's way late in the discussion here, but I was wondering if you could elaborate on that a little bit.

Once I had to spend the night in a hospital in San Antonio, TX. The next day I was watching HBO at a hotel all drugged up from the night before. I watched that movie, Fools Rush In with Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek. Because I was kinda fucked up, instead of watching the movie as a romantic comedy, I looked at it as an illustrations of the hardships of interracial relationships due to extreme differences in culture. I think that as long as both people are coming from a similar frame of reference, or are ready to fully embrace another culture and incorporate it into the plan for their life, then interracial relationships can be awesome. For the most part though, from my own experience, interracial relationships have a short life span. Basically, a good deal of interracial relationships are just an excuse to try out sex with a person of a different race.

I've been in an interracial relationship for over two years now, so I'm certainly fine with it. And I don't see why anyone else wouldn't be fine with it, no one is forcing them to be in our relationship.

Neither of us have received any heat for being in an interracial relationship, which is good. My family loves her, and her family loves me, and our friends have never found anything wrong with it or said anything, so I'm glad we have good families and friends.

Inter-racial couples are fine. I dated a puerto rican for six years, but i probably wouldn't do that again. I'm not really attracted to many people who aren't the same race as me.