Are interracial relationships a good or a bad thing?

I want your opinions on whether its a good or a bad thing. Please no "love is blind and people should only follow their hearts" kind of comments since there are too many factors to count in a healthy relationship, of which some can be considered even more important than love itself. One of the main issues I'd like to discuss about is how such a relationship messes up tradition and culture in most cases, acceptance of the children born from such a relationship by surroundings and how much harder it actually is to understand someone who's from a totally different culture. Such marriages make nations gradually lose their identity who are rich in culture and have their own special treats, which concerns mostly white people since their gene is the least dominant... So is it really a good thing?

Well it's definitely not a bad thing. I know for a fact that some people treat "interractial" relationships as if both parties are entirely different species from each other, when the only thing that's really different is their skin and hair colour and, obviously, Ancestry.

As long as there's no violence involved and both parties are happy, why should I care?

My aunt who lives in Canada, is in an interracial relationship with a guy named Delano. He's a pretty cool guy. She's been with him for at least 10 years.

I think they are wonderful. I, myself being a black young man, am with a Hispanic woman and that's my preference. I am just not into black women for my own personal reasons and it would really suck it society forced me to be with a woman of my own race against my will. I think people are people regardless of color, gender, or creed. Love is something that is a human experience. Our right to choose who we want to be with should never be taken for granted.

I see nothing wrong with them. If both partners aree able to look past the culture and it won't cause any conflict, why worry?

I'm sorry but it really is dependent on how much effort both parties are truly willing to put into the relationship.

There are plenty of relationships that are both interracial and successful, it's not as if it's unheard of.

When two people are really committed, you find a way to make it work. When something's worth it, failure isn't an option.

As someone who has interracial parents and grew up fine i find the OP's post rather offensive

Hmm... curious then. What's your other, not-as-obvious-from-your-name half? No offense meant from this question, I really am just curious. o-o

The first one from my dad's side to come over was Russian. Him and his mother were born here tho

Being a mulatto myself, I find that interracial dating is a something of a brave new world that a lot of people are still uneasy to talk about or even think about. Culture is a driving factor, and with sub-cultures in America being so diverse, it can have some conflicts, or a lot of it.

Over culture, is it a bad thing? No, it isn't. If we look at American Caucasians as they are now, they are utter mutts to their European counter parts in both genes and culture. I have rarely met a pure blooded Italian, German, or English that were not immigrants. How are the traditions of Europeans-Americans doing here in the States? Pretty badly actually.

White people have lost much of their culture coming in the state. Instead we have a that famous 'melting pot' effect where some parts of a person culture gets assimilated into the culture and the rest is thrown out. White people have been doing a lot of interracial marriages and most will agree, there are no issues from Italians or Germans in the states that can be really noted. As long as there is a culture for the person to be brought into, nothing is really lost, only replaced. White Americans have lost a lot of language, music, dance, and traditions from their respective countries from Europe. Yet since America has an a culture, Whites don't feel any sore of cultural genocid since they were never brought up in it to begin with.

Over larger term for race, how is it? Cultural clashes are going to happen. Some cultures are more open than others, some are not so. My Grandmother was not very keen on my father hooking up with my mom, it was not major problem since we were 2,000 miles away though.

For me as a child of an interracial marriage, culture identity was a major struggle. Not only are you trying to figure out what you are, and how you act, but you also are expected from society to fall or have traits from your lineage. I think Obama is a good example of this. Despite only having half of his genes to be black, people still take that 50% and call him the first black president and make it a historic event. I guess 1/2 is good enough, if he looks the part for it.

Yet we will always have these cultural clashes with interracial couples. As humans, we love to associate people in tribal form. I actually asked Hispanics, Blacks, and Whites " Do you prefer dating within your race." I get a lot of responses that they indeed do. They always go back that it is not a racist reason, but it feels comfortable for them. This makes sense, humans tend to like keeping a realm of comfort. Being with a person who is in your culture and way of thinking is easier than going out of it.

I'm biracial. On a human point there nothing wrong with blending of the creed or race of people since that how we get stronger traits and genes from. From a racial point.. too much blending will destroy the line between national, culture, creed, tribal and racial traits. No more pure people. It's not a horrible thing in the current space of time but say like in 1000 years.. will we all be one color, one look.

Personally that was never a big deal to me. I grew up jewish like my dad, but i still visited my moms side of the family for stuff like Christmas. None of my parents made a big deal about the other persons culture, and neither did there relatives. My dad has told his father at first didn't approve of his relationship with my mom, but he got used to it.

I feel the whole experience has made me a lot more tolerant and respectful of other peoples cultures

I don't think I can quantify them as "good" OR "bad" they just...are. People like who they like regardless of the reasons for it, it can be smart reasons, stupid reasons, illogical reasons, whatever.

So may I put in my vote for "Neither"?

I don't see how they could be a bad thing...
My parents seem to have been doing fine the past 26 or so years.

Excuse me but I find this quite moronic as it doesnt apply directly to you at all, that you are interracial holds no weight in this conversation but actually makes you even less able to understand the problem since youre from a mixed culture unlike me for example. As I dont plan to offend anyone with this thread, nor try to attack someone by being of dual heritage, I'd ask you to think a little deeper, since there is nothing to be offended about, so refer from talking this thread personally, I have better things in life to do than to pick on your status as interracial child. Also if you interpret the thread properly while reading there shouldnt be anything to be upset about to begin with.



These are quite good remarks and probably the post that suits this topic the most, although I must say that America is a bad example since the country was created from immigrants that lived in Europe and around the world eventually. The aim was to create an interracial country to begin with. In Europe for example we have a big problem of people wanting to remain what they are and keep their culture, which right they have, and interracial marriages/relationships make it difficult for them, and even more for their children who get picked on by locals who are unwilling to accept them into their society, since the culture they bring with them is unaccepted by the surroundings. Also a factor is if we are truely able to fully understand someone who was raised in such a different culture.

America wasn't founded on the idea of a melting pot. The Anglo Protestants and Catholics were force to ship to the new world for the fact their religion was fucking weird for European Nouveau enlightenment Europeans at that point. Shit until the revolution most colonies fight battles and still hated each other because the Puritan north and Catholic mid and south. Yes in that time of the pilgrim to 1775 other nationality came to american but they stayed in once colony or backwoods mostly. Very little interbreeding of English into french/black/german/dutch or Indians or scot.

Most peoples in Europe never interbreed unless they was nobility or travelers. 90% of peoples never left 15 miles of their birth place. Interbreeding rarely happen until the 1865 and wasn't a factor in half the country until the 1970's because... well fuck they still lynched us in the south. Shit i still seen the 'no nigger allowed' in stores in the south in 2001.

Is racial bleeding a bad thing.. no and yes. It depends on what the outcome is. Love or denaturing cultures and heritage. Shit most of that doesn't matter in america because we all foreigners in non native lands... the Indians are now more mixed, but at least the mixed ones still keep their traditions alive even thought they mostly mexicans with one native grandparent or great grandparent. Same with the one mixing with whites and blacks in the east and south.

People should be concentrated on whether a relationship with the other person might be good, rather than look at their culture, race, ethnicity, etc. Fuck that shit.
I'm much more interested in the person as an individual, not their background or where they come from.

Pretty much this.

I'm a byproduct of a biracial relationship and honestly I don't think I'll be able to answer the way you want me to. All I can say is fuck culture fuck values and fuck race, it doesn't really matter. As someone said we might come to the point where we have become a people with similar genes but I personally doubt that due to genetic variants and locations making it hard for everyone to mix. Honestly nothing to me would matter if I was in love no matter race gender or culture, it could all go to hell in the end because honestly it's just not as important as love (says the guy who has no plans to spawn or gain a permanent mate).

This essentially boils down to "Are people from races other than my own a good or bad thing, hurr durr?" Did a Black Man steal your gf or why are you making such a thread OP?

I am black and my girlfriend is chinese. We rock it out with socks off and everyone always says we'd have beautiful kids (I guess black and chinese makes cute kids) but I do wonder how outside family could be a problem at times. My family doesn't care (there are already a bunch of interracial marriages in it) but her family, I am pretty sure I'd be the 'one speck' in her family get-togethers if you know what I am saying.
I've tried learning the language a few times but her dialect is specific to where she was from, on top of that she really only knows how to speak it and not write it so learning from her is a bit of a bust atm.

I do not necessarily think it is a bad thing. I mean, I'll live through it but I can definitely see how it might be a problem that creates a rocky relationship with her family.