Who deals better w/ interracial relationships?

Question

I've found that is easier for the African American culture and other races of people deal better when interracial relationships then the white culture. Do you find that true as well and if so why? Or do you disagree?

Answer 1

I disagree.

My sister is African American/Cuacasian and has gotten most (but not all) of her ridicule from African American's. Usually females who accused her of acting "white".

My girl friend is African American and married to a caucasian. Her relatives (African American) want nothing to do with them...his are fine.

Another girl friend is caucasian and is married to an African American. Again the African American family is the one with the problems with the realtionship.

I could go on and on. By the way I am in Ohio.

Another friend

Answer 2

Being in a interracial marriage, I am Black, my wife white, I find that it all depends on the educational level of the races. There are as many black bigots as there are white that do not approve of "interracial" relationships or marriages.

But on average Africian Americans "accept" interrracial relationships between blacks and whites better than whites do.
This is also true of Africian Americans and Hispanics. It has always stumped me as to why the color of a persons skin is the determination of their worth in society.

We all bleed the same blood, breathe the same air, have the same hopes, dreams and aspirations. Raise or children, watch them marry and begin their own families. When the time to leave this earth comes, we all die the same way and we all have the same destiny beyond the physical realm.

Why waste a lifetime not approving of someone based on skin color? We are intelligent beings but at the same time .. very ignorant

Answer 3

I think it's probably true in general, but I don't think it's right. I think some white people still just have a deep seated, ingrained superiority complex. Most of us will reason it away or fight it, but it's historically driven into us. It's not right, but it is there.

I think it's more there in the older generation than in younger people. For example I dated a guy from Africa and my mom told my grandparents that he was from Africa, but she didn't tell them that he was black because they would just get all weird about it. My other grandparents asked if he was black, and they weren't opposed to it, but it was important to them. They're not racist against blacks, but don't even start a conversation about mexicans with them.

You know what's really weird, when I started dating this guy, almost no one cared about this guy's color, except my mom, which was strange because she's the one who always taught me that color doesn't matter. She was just worried that it would be difficult to blend the cultures, and I think that she was afraid he was going to marry me and take me back to Africa (because he was African black, not African American).

Anyway, I think that interracial relationships are only a problem for the people around the relationship. I hope that eventually the racism will die out, and men will really be measured by their character and not their color.

Answer 4

I definitely agree! African-Americans as a whole are more accepting of other cultures, because we've had to deal with more racial mingling than other races. However, there are some that can be accepting of the other race on the outside, and still not like it on the inside. Generally, we have the ability to get along with others due to upbringing, and you may never know we dont approve of the relationship.

Answer 5

For the most part yes I agree. Black people tend to not see why we are any different simply based on our skin color. Now this is a generalization so of course not everyone falls into this stereotype but in my experiance as a white woman married to a black man I have noticed more white people giving me problems than anything else. White people tend to think that it is fine to be friends with someone of another race but to marry or date them? Well that is just out of the question. And white people also tend to make it more tense than it is because they tend to be scared of offending someone of another race which just puts more space between us. But of course some black people get very upset with mixed (esp black men with white women) because some of them feel that the man is looking at a white woman as the better option, more unattainable, and all of the "good ones" tend to go for them so the only ones left are the low lifes. Now of course this isn't always true. In any case yes a lot of times the black culture is very much more accepting.

Answer 6

Wow girl, where in the world did you hear that? It's not true at all. I am sure that there some Black families who deal better with interracial relationships better than others, but for the most part, Black people are more bigoted than white people. The difference is that Black people try to pretend that they are not racist. They are.

Answer 7

I totally disagree (respectfully of course). I think that there are people in each of the cultures who have a problem with interracial relationships. Of course, in my culture, I call those people the "idiots"!!

Answer 8

I think both sides have it rough!

However, I think other races accept interracial dating more than the white race! I think it is more noticeble on the white side because they usually aren't the minority! Just as a black guy with a white girl is less likely noticed than a white guy with a black girl, because it is more common to see!

So yes, unfortunately I believe other races deal with it better than us white folk do!

Answer 9

Well, I guess I agree. But my guess why is because blacks spend a lot more time with the white culture. They know what it is like and have spent most of their lives being in white-dominated situations. But whites, on the other hand, have not, so they're being thrown into an entirely different situation.

Answer 10

I'm in an interracial relationship(Caucasian) but I have dated other races and found there are all sorts of difficult people out there.No 'race' has the best of anything.