Why does anyone (except racist scumbags) care who marries who?
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[/font][hr style="width: 100%; height: 1px;"]Interracial Marriages Surge Across U.S.
NEW YORK (AP) - The charisma king of the 2008 presidential field. The world's best golfer. The captain of the New York Yankees. Besides superstardom, Barack Obama, Tiger Woods and Derek Jeter have another common bond: Each is the child of an interracial marriage.
For most of U.S. history, in most communities, such unions were taboo.
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But what once seemed so radical to many Americans is now commonplace.
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Opinion polls show overwhelming popular support, especially among younger people, for interracial marriage.
That's not to say acceptance has been universal. Interviews with interracial couples from around the country reveal varied challenges, and opposition has lingered in some quarters.
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Good for mixed marriages. I'm all for that. But it is very tough though. Not only have you go to deal with a different male species altogether, you carry with you a different set of cultural values. In the end, two cultures can make it work. It takes more effort and more work but the end end product is something rich and more rewarding.
Its still the last taboo.
Look on tv, it's just mainly white faces. Heck they even had their own channel the WB, or white people with problems channel.
Rest of the world interracial couples are the norm on tv, but here its considered 'edgy'.
Considering it was illegal in most southern states up til the 70's to marry another person of a different race, its going to take a while. Especially in this country.
So I was watching this documentary, and a Chinese lady + German guy was getting married. The Chinese lady said something along the lines of, "It shouldn't matter who you marry; love is still love regardless of ethnic background."
And I thought, good for her. Someone who has it right.
Then another time, I was watching this Japanese program where a guy was asking people what they thought about interracial marriages. Mixed response, but the old people (40+) made me embarrased to be half-Japanese!! They'd all say something like, "Keep our race clean! No dirty blood!"
I had to shake my head when I saw this... at least the young people were more open-minded...
*I might have posted this before.. I forget now..*
You're 1/2 Japanese, Marik? Please register so I can bless thee.
Well it depends on where you live too though in the US...I see tons of mixed relationships where I live(Houston) because the city is almost evenly split between the three largest groups which are whites, hispanics, and blacks. As for being mostly white faces on TV the same is true. In fact about a third of publicly broadcasted channels here are in Spanish language.
lol Lil Me are you a halfie too?
no, but my kids are :)
hmmmmm cool what kind of 'mix'? They can turn out quite nicely.. for example some of the halfer girls at my school are HOT!! yikes..
Marik wrote:
They can turn out quite nicely..
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You make it sound like an ominous experiment!
I'm 4th generation Canadian Chinese and married to the Clampetts.
Is it just me, or is that dress your avatar's wearing designed for ummm "rapid access"?
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Lise wrote:
Good for mixed marriages. I'm all for that. But it is very tough though. Not only have you go to deal with a different male species altogether, you carry with you a different set of cultural values.
I'll be in a mixed-marriage before long (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/14.gif) and in my case I don't think this will be much of an issue. I totally respect my fiance's culture, and for me, the differences are refreshing.
TehBorken wrote:
Is it just me, or is that dress your avatar's wearing designed for ummm "rapid access"?
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Good observation, TB. Time is of the essence for us Ninjas.
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who are the Clampetts?
The yokels on the Beverly Hillbillies.
It was joke, SD.
ahhhh
lol
that's basically my extended family lol.
We're a package, survive the farm, you're good to go. Its the family 'relationship test'.
Lil Me wrote:
The yokels on the Beverly Hillbillies.
It was joke, SD.
My ex-wife's family are like the ones from 'Deliverance'. I swear, you never saw a stupider bunch of racist, dumb-ass, redneck wanna-be-cowboys. The only thing they didn't do was play the banjo.
LOL TehBorken.....that's too bad. I think they should at least be able to play some good background music if they're going to behave like that.
lol, TB. My in-laws aren't THAT bad. They are somewhere in between Red Green and Jeff Foxworthy.
EDIT: My FIL once cut a frozen turkey in half with teh table saw. There weren't very many of us for dinner, and they didn't want to cook the whole thing. He didn't wash the saw blade before or after.
eck eck eck eck!
Um, I dont see anything wrong with cutting using a table saw. I do think the blade should have been wiped though...
Ive gotten lazy and cut up a watermellon with one of my chainsaws before. It was done as something of a party trick though, outside. You wouldnt believe the spray coming off that thing.
lol at the watermelon chainsaw massacre. You sure you're not a long lost relative, Russmeister?
Mr LM has friends who shoot down their Xmas tree every year with a shotgun.
every year at new years my cousins find road kill and blow it up with fire crackers or light it on fire at midnight.
I don't have anything against interracial or mixed marriages, or relationships. Who cares!??? Love can defeat all those obstacles. Although, it is a "delicate" issue and it'll always be....well, not for me but for society in general. Many people would still say:"Well, beter not! No thanks". But as I said, I don't care who's who, what color and......... the only thing that is important to me is, is he/she a good person or not. everything else is irrelevant.