Any thoughts on racial mixing?

Question

Sorry this is so open - but anybody have any input? Like, personal observations on what it's like to be mixed, the good versus the bad? Or, if you aren't mixed, would you be up for marrying outside of your own race? Would you have any worries for your mixed children?

I'm mixed, btw, and I'm all for it, but I still think it's a sticky issue - so, I'd love to hear your ideas!

Answer 1

I'm not mixed, but I would love to be. I think it would be more interesting and I've never really fitted in anyway, so that wouldn't be a problem.

Answer 2

Can we please not call it "race mixing"? That is such a dated reference that actually lends itsself to establishing that the difference of the races is so significant it interracial relations should be an issue.

I believe if everyone could learn more about the levels of human social difference, and learn the appropriate vocabulary that half these raciall motivated issues wouldnt exist. For example, Scot , Irish, French etc. ARE NOT races, they're all white people, caucazoid race, different ethnicities.

There are 3 true races of people which are based scientifically skeletal build:
1)Caucazoid- Europeans, non mixed and non black-Latinos, Indians (from India), Arabs
2)Mongloid- Asians, possibly Native America, Pacific Islands 3) ******* - Africans, African people across the diaspora, Black Latinos

Then there is ethnicity which is determined by broad regional difference in geography and culture such as the difference between being Japanese and Chinese, Argetinian and Venezulan, Sudanese and Kenyan. But you better that if they are Mongloid, that they are still Mongoid whether 2 miles inside or outide of a said border.

Then there are heritage and religious categories and so forth.
Sometimes culture follows race, sometimes it doesnt.

Other than the consideration of culture and religion, having relationships across race makes no difference becasue it is arbitrary and you are powerless to change it. Nothing natural indicates that relationships across "races" is wrong- interracial relationships dont produce defective human beings or anything like that. And all the hardware fits across color and ethnicities.

Only the construct of culture and religion that dictate to us how we believe we should interact with one another. I think the only inherent potential problem with a child of mixed heritage and ethnicity child is choosing which constructs to follow. Additionally, racism comes into play.

Answer 3

I'm white, not mixed, and I don't care about dating outside my own race. I'm a lesbian, so I guess I should mention that. If I WERE to have children who were racially mixed, I suppose that wouldn't be too far from the social stigma of having children as a lesbian. And that would just be one other thing to worry about. That would probably happen if I were to be with someone of another race as me. The thing is, I by default all ready expect a life that is not of the picket fence norm, so it is not too much of a stretch for me to see myself in another unnormal situation. Whatever that may be. And personally, I really do not care about race. I have the hugest crushes on people who are biracial and it would be really hypocritical to be against it in any way. Anyway, I am probably not the straight person you are thinking of for this question, but that's my thoughts anyway.

Answer 4

HAHAHA! This seems to be a popular question lately. I am white, I guess, well I'm German, French, Irish, and Native American(Black foot). So I guess I'm already mixed, but to most people i am considered white. I dated a girl who was vietnamese back about seven years ago. I dated a hispanic woman about six years ago. and i have dated white women for most of my life. The only difference i have noticed, is that the majority of white women i dated were NUTS! LMAO! just kidding. I dont realy see anything wrong with mixing races, if you love the person you are with color or race shouldn't matter. As for the children, There will always some group of people putting down another, its human nature, the best you can do is raise them to be caring but not a doormat. Teach them the difference between beleif and ignorance, right and wrong. That is the best you can do, if you've done a good job raising your children they will be the kind of person that makes you proud to know them. Color doesnt matter when it comes to love, remeber love is blind. Or in this case color blind. LOL.

Answer 5

Well I have no problem with interracial dating. I would easily date a White, Asian, Hispanic or any other race just like I would my own. Race doesn't matter to me and it never has. Now if I were married to man of a different race and we had a bi-racial child , I guess the only worries I'd have is that they would have a hard time trying to fit in. I've heard the stories of how mixed children feel like they don't belong sometimes. I would also want to expose them to both sides of their heritage as much as possible and not just one side.

Answer 6

my sister dated blacks and even though i always dated whites i still got called a n**gerlover and guys dumped me when they found out about her. As an adult I say who cares what they thought but as a child the name calling really hurt. Ive been told i fight like a man because when people talked about her i would fight for her then go home and cry for hours. I wound up taking care of her two mixed kids and doing homeschool at 16 . she left driving a truck. i guess she couldnt handle it. It wasnt fair. My neices had problems with neither the white or black kids wanting to be their friends.i no longer resent her . she moved to chicago where they are all accepted. Small town Mississippi wasnt the place. I wonder if it was worth all the pain she caused our family? What was wrong with a white guy? After being treated so bad b/c of her i wouldnt do it and reccomend that anyone who thinks about it also think about the effects of interracial dating on the whole family.

Answer 7

I think it is a wonderful experience being mixed race. I have never had any problems being accepted like some of the other posters. I think that all depends where you live and the attitudes of other people. I think being biracial is part of the reason why I am so well-rounded and open minded today.

Answer 8

I'm mixed but not half and half of anything, I have a multi racial heritage, I love it, I love my family. My daughter is mostly white, her father is 100%, I'm all for racial mixing, I really don't care what anyone thinks, its my choice to do so and my daughter is a gorgeous little tanned, big brown eyed elfin child. On both sides of the family there are some naysayers, but they are in the minority, most of them think she's an angel. I don't worry about what people think, interracially mixed children are becoming the norm and are more accepted than they were in the past...

Answer 9

I'm biracial and completely against it based on my personal experiences. It's bad no matter how you look at it since it kills off two cultures (it's hard to properly learn one and you can't equate both because then you falsely diminishing one races accomplishment and over praise the accomplishment of the other), elder relatives look and don't see themselves reflected in the future (they're relieved when their other children who married within their race reproduce), we don't fit in their racial pride parades, and usually we don't feel a strong enough affinity to one to lay our life for it (like most of them will for their own). Multiculturalism is a PC word for genocide and no race should be made extinct, you don't have to kill them to the grave, you just have to drain the gene pool so it's very, very wrong. IMHO.

Answer 10

I certainly have nothing against mixed races...I think it's quite wonderful for anybody to find happiness with whoever they want.....What I think will happen is that cultures will become diluted as well..which somehow saddens me because I am so fascinated by the differences of culture..