What do you think of interracial couples?

So one doesn't need to be careful as to whom they have a relationship with/marry if they are the same race?

Wouldn't the 'cultural' differences be just one of the many, many things that you need to work out just like any other?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Alai

they see problems for us down the road and would rather us end it now rather than facing problems later.

See, this is bullshit. A lot of people seem to be comfortable saying that there will be un-named problems due to cultural/racial differences, but how many are willing to actually list these?

"There are or will be problems due to cultural differences."
"Oh, well, what are they so that we can plan for and face these issues?"
"Can't tell you. Just trust me, BIG problems."

Oh, except for the already listed desire for fried chicken and cars. I mean, who wouldn't see irreconcilable differences in how to eat chicken?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by naturally_tipsy

You've never met a true Italian, have you?

It's amazing how the other Italians think they are Italian, with or without your respect.

Originally Posted by naturally_tipsy

This thread is extremely interesting to me because nearly every single person posting to it is one hundred percent supportive of interracial relationships, but my entire town (everyone within a five mile radius, about) is passionately opposed to it. My neighborhood is completely white. The surrounding area, however, is Queens, New York, and you don't really find more of a mixture of races and cultures anywhere else.

I am personally not opposed to interracial couples. Three years ago, when it was much less common, I might have stared for a minute, but nowadays they're so commonplace that it doesn't phase me at all. I was, however, raised in a very narrow-minded white neighborhood. in a tight-knit family with old-fashioned values - purity being a very important one. In short, if I ever fell in love with someone who wasn't white, my father and grandfather probably wouldn't show up to the wedding. Because of the repercussion I'd suffer with the family, and the value I've come to place on cultural integrity (in my case, Italian) in America, I cannot see myself, personally, in a relationship with someone from another race, but I have no problem with people who can. Kudos to them for jumping over the social barriers and finding happiness.

3 years? I find it pretty interesting that New York has only recently seen an increase in such relationships. It's been common as dirt in my nearest city for a very long time. Are you sure it's not just that you are seeing more of the world, or at least noticing things more for what they are rather then the stories you were fed from a racist upbringing?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Never said you were racist. Just that you come from a racist upbringing. The views you expressed I took to be those of your neighbourhood/family.

Originally Posted by Natually_Tipsy

There's a difference between "racist" and "not seeking an interracial relationship."

Indeed there is. Just as there is a difference between discouraging a thing, not choosing to partake in said thing. If your neighbourhood discourages it, that is racist.

You also bring up the 'white' race issue again. I mean, Italians can be quite different than say, Germans, etc. Would your neighbourhood take issue with these relationships, or only those where it is a non-white involved? What about dark skinned Italians with light skinned Italians?

Double Post:

Originally Posted by nadienne

Out of curiousity, are you equating "true" Italian with being involved in the mob?

What has she ever done to warrant such disrespect?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Bloodrayne

Ive the opinion thats interracial couples are not a good thing. I prefer heterogenity over homogenity. When every people and races mix, what will be the product? A plain mix without ancient history, without a deep-going culture. And this mordern "urbanic-zeigeist-multiculturalist"-crap is no real culture for me, sorry. Mix ten different colors into a bottle, and the product will be....yes...guess what....

I hear you. I don't know what's got the others so confused. You and I both know that if people look the same, then they'll be the same and enjoy the same culture as one another. I mean, if I were to find me in north america, someone that looks like me in the middle east, someone who looks like me in east asia, someone that looks like me in Africa, and someone that looks like me in Australia, we'd all be pretty close to the same background.

I mean, culture isn't based on regions and bloodlines right? :eyebrow:

I was speaking idiomatically.