Interracial dating

Originally posted by es_bih Your opinion and your entitled to it (although I deem it a rather regressive and racist one), but I must disagree based on personal experience and deductions from successful relations all around me.

We have a different underastanding of succesful relation. Yes, there are couples that work well and they believe they are happy (because of their limited horizon and intoxication with clichees) but is not what I personally want.


And I think I have a more mature than you understanding of the matter, I see it in the perspective of eternity.

Originally posted by es_bih LOL LOL LOL LOLI love how "they believe," assuming that you know better than them what they think and believe. Is there anything on this world that is not an illusion Menu, I mean pretty much everything you disagree with is an illusion so far as mentioned by yourself.

I answer you on private.

Originally posted by JanusRook Do you agree with interracial dating? No I think it's a horrible and terrible idea, I mean just look at it.... Sickening isn't it?

That's awesome. You have a beautiful babe over there JanusRook. Deos she have a sister? give me her number!

Originally posted by Suren I just heard 70% of African American women are single! is that true? why? Do you agree with interracial dating? plz come and share your opinion.

Hey do they still give those Greed Cards??

Phrased in better words than Menu cultural elements do play a major part in successful relationships so primarily people do end up marrying people from similar cultures (which would be why this thread could have possibly existed in the first place).

I agree though, culture does play an important part in attraction, however culture is not determined by "race". Me and my girlfriend are from similar cultures and thus we share a lot in common. Menu, have you ever seen Brazilians? How do they fit into your idea of culture?

No I agree with Menumorut, the closer the better. I'm asking my sister on a date tomorrow.

Reginmund, from what I know of you, I wouldn't put anything past you.....

That's awesome. You have a beautiful babe over there JanusRook. Deos she have a sister? give me her number!

Thanks Suren, I'm sure she'll appreciate the compliment. She actually does have a half-sister, but I don't think her boyfriend would be to happy about her number being given out.

I have a long history of interacial relationships and personally i feel it was a good experience.

See to me 'interracial' relationships shouldn't be seen as any different than any other relationship. I mean as far as I'm concerned race is the farthest thing from my mind when it comes to who I'm attracted to. I mean there are bound to be culture clashes but then again you'll have things like that even in same race relationships, so basically as long as two people get along, and have a good time why even acknowledge such a trivial difference.

I believe that social status, place of living, education, work, hobbies and tastes are a lot more important that race or ethniticity among people and future couples.

Originally posted by Janus See to me 'interracial' relationships shouldn't be seen as any different than any other relationship. I mean as far as I'm concerned race is the farthest thing from my mind when it comes to who I'm attracted to. I mean there are bound to be culture clashes but then again you'll have things like that even in same race relationships, so basically as long as two people get along, and have a good time why even acknowledge such a trivial difference.

Got to agree

Originally posted by calvo Among the younger generation, however, attitudes have changed. Teengers and people in their 20s have often grown up sharing neighbourhoods with Latin Americans, Africans, and Eastern Europeans; and "nationality" or "race" doesn't seem to be a major factor in dating. In the center of Madrid and Barcelona you get to see more and more mixed couples; but most of them are under 25.   1 in every 10 marriages in Spain now are mixed-nationality; with the most common combination being a Spanish man with a Latin American woman.

I think we all should hook up with partners as different from ourselves as possible in respect to colour, culture, ethnicity, etc.

No I was just showing that culture can be independent of 'race'. So that when you say that people should practice endogamous relationships, (which isn't a racist statement), in a lot of cultures they do not have to be of the same race to have the same culture. So that you shouldn't reject interracial relationships outright, because what if the child adopts your culture? Or do you believe one can never adopt any other culture other than their own?

Yes exactly. I know of a girl who when interviewing potential housemates tells them that she doesn't care about race, religion, or sex but she does insist that they are not a Liberal voter. So in this case the cultural divide does not run on racial grounds, but on political views.
Her culture could be considered "anti-Liberal" and not related to her race.

Originally posted by Northman I think we all should hook up with partners as different from ourselves as possible in respect to colour, culture, ethnicity, etc. One day our decendants would all look alike and the ugly face of racsism and "me better than you" attitude would be history.

I don't think this will make a difference. People will just redefine the group, could be family, place of birth, knowledge of Bradmans batting average etc. Racism is just a type of "groupism".

Originally posted by Menu Just suggest that inter-cultural marriage is not as happy as one within your ethnic group.

But you can have an inter-cultural marriage inside your ethnic group (for example, do you really consider an atheist communist feminist to have the same culture as you Menu?), or a intra-cultural one outside your ethnic group (for example someone who shared you exact world outlook & religious views but just so happened to be born somewhere else)

As Pinguin said, what do a wealthy, highly educated, upper class person and a poor, illiterate farm worker have in common other than ethnicity?