Personally i dont understand whta the big deal is with inter-racial relationships. I really feel that people are not seeing that the world is changing. I know my parents are against it but that really offends me. I go to a school that is pretty racially divided. Every day you see these girls (predomently white girls) that have to hide their relationship becuase of their judgemental parents. People say that black people and white people have different stylers of living which at times i believe is true. But there is no reason why you cannot accept eachothers differences and be happy. Its truley a sad thing when someone has to hide the thing person who makes them happy to the people they love the most.
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Yeah I agree, I see no problem with interracial relationships. You can't help who you love. It makes me angry when people say how different races are. Just because we're different races, doesn't mean we don't have anything else in common. My parents also would not approve of me dating outside my race. If i do end up dating someone of a different race, they will just have to find some way to deal with it, because I don't feel that I should end a potentially good relationship because they don't approve.
I agree with you. Actually my parents are a little like that, but they're slowly getting with the times. In my book attraction goes beyond the color of your skin. I don't seem to have an preference for any race, actually. I'll go for brown, black, white, yellow, or anything in between!
You have to give your parents' generation a little slack. Not that I'm excusing their prejudice, and I definitely don't agree, but they are from a much different time. Most of our parents were in school, or at least growing up, during the time when segregation ended. They were born into a world where races were not equal, and it was not acceptable to think that they were. While it isn't right, it also isn't fair to assume they should all change their views just because a law changed. We have the privilege of growing up in a society where, at least legally, racial discrimination is illegal. They didn't have that luxury. Take a minute to step back and see why they think the way they do, and don't expect to change their minds in any short amount of time. Look how long it took to change the government's views before they actually passed any legislation regarding racial equality!
You know, race is actually considered to be a myth by anthropologists!
It's a cultural idea with a Eurocentric basis. Europeans from the 1400s to the 1800s used it to excuse slavery and imperialism.
Human skin tones and facial structure are so varied that there's not way to classify each person under one race. If you took a map and marked the average skin tone for every country, you'd find that skin variations form a sort of gradient.
There's no line, no scientific boundary that divides people from different ethnicities. It's all a myth.
I agree with you. But it's hard to get them to see. If you are raised all your life believing one thing, it's hard to let them see. Hope the worl progresses.
You really can't blame the humand mind :). Ofcourse there is nothing wrong with inter-racial relationships but even though one could say that "nothing is wrong..." but inside they still judge it to be wrong somehow, unconsciously. There's this book called ['Blink', the power of thinking without thinking] you should really read it, very interesting.
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