A curious non-american asking : Why white people is not blending with black people in the USA..?

Question

Blending examples : Brazil ..Cuba..and may be Canada

Answer 1

I'm not sure of your exact question. I live in a city which is very diverse. It is common to see interacial couples. It is common to see children of Hispanic, African American and Anglo descent playing together. It looks like we are getting along just fine...

Answer 2

Well, I for one think you're right - Americans don't mix racially like they do in those other examples. I'm mixed race and I still get stares alot of times. My friends in interracial couples get treated poorly. I think we just have a different mentality here.

The reason I think our society is still very divided racially is because of Jim Crow laws. You might not be familiar with Jim Crow, so I'll explain a bit. A few years after slavery ended with the passage of the 13th amendment to the constitiution, Jim Crow laws were passed in most parts of the country that enforced segregation and made it law. Blacks and whites remained separate from one another, living in separate neighborhoods, going to separate Black and white schools, even having separate drinking fountains. Blacks couldn't go certain hang outs, or if they chose to, they had a separate seating section or balcony. It was illegal for Blacks and whites to marry up until 1967, which when you think of it, wasn't that long ago. In fact, when my parents got married in '70, they weren't sure it was even legal. These divisions have had a lasting effect on society. I think this is why Blacks and whites don't intermix very much here like they do in S. America.

However, on a positive note, I will say that this is starting to seriously change for the better. My little cousin is also mixed, and she's 3 now. I imagine that things will be much easier for her than they were for me growing up and that people will hardly even treat her differently at all.

It's a much different time now than when I was a kid, not to mention she's in a different part of the country that I am - she's in California and I'm in Tennessee - and things vary in different parts of the country. In the American South, there is very much still alot of tension between blacks and whites that is simply not present in other places such as the West Coast.

I hope this helps with your question. We have a very unique, painful history here in the United States, and we will struggle for a long time, but we're making slow changes for the better.

Answer 3

They are very blended. There has been a lot of interbreeding between whites and blacks in the Americas via Slavery, illegal interracial unions and, now, legal marriage.

There is a growing trend of interracial relationships right now, with Black/white couples being very common. People don't realize it, but it's been going on for hundreds of years. It's just that social stigma have prevented people from being out in the open, and prevent products of these unions from expressing that they are mixed. In America, people of Black and White ancestry have been passing for either Black or White. So, no one realizes that a lot of Whites have Black ancestry; and a lot of Blacks have White ancestry.

Of you skim the surface of the American society, you will only see division along racial lines, but if you look beyond that you will see that whites and blacks have been mixing for hundreds of years.

And there's a log of denial going on about it.

Answer 4

Well, my friend, you are obviously not an American, and that's cool...but we white folk have been blending with darker-skinned folk for a long time, and it makes us stronger and smarter. My first girlfriend was very black, I mean, majorly dark-black, and I am so white that some folks call me pink.

Whatever you have heard about white folk in America not "blending" with the black folk...(I refuse to write the words 'African American' over and over...no one deserves seven syllables) it simply isn't true. there are, unfortunately, still pockets of racism in America, but this is a pretty safe place for people of any race or religion to be. And we do blend here...we really do.

Answer 5

You need to be a bit more clear on what you are asking. Why aren't black people not blending in with white people? Personally, i think things are just fine. Yea, we have our rasist bouts, but thats mostly from family hand downs from generations long past, yet certain resentments are still there, and because of certain upbringing, black or white, people will take a long time to heal. Things are still better than they were 40 years ago, though. but its going to take more than two or three generations to fix rifts, if ever completely.

Answer 6

I enjoyed your question and for not being from the US you are very observant. I don't understand why there is not more tolerance between cultures. It is very apparent anywhere you look when you go in any major metropolitan city (meaning at least 750,000 people) that there is a clash. It is unfortunate that forty years after the civil rights movement there are still atrocities happening everywhere. Anyone that tells you otherwise is living in a sheltered community (suburb) somewhere amongst their own kind, or have assimilated the few persons that are not like the majority population whatever that may be.

Answer 7

Don't be so believing in propaganda.

White people are blending with black people in the USA. Black people are blending with white people in the USA.

USA is a conglomerate of colors and they all have sex and produce more people. Of all colors.

America is not about black and white. America is about people.

Period.

Answer 8

The South of Brazil is still very much white. Cuba is also majority white. These are not mixed peoples.
Why should we blend together?

Answer 9

I blended with a few in high school....


you are talking about sex right?


Keep this one thing in mind:

There is a very high likelyhood (gaining close on Clinton in the polls and beating her in Iowa) that the next president on the USA will be mixed race......

Obama 08

http://www.barackobama.com/

Answer 10

For the most part, you're right, most whites and blacks don't marry each other in America. For black men, about 6% marry non-black women, and for black women, it's about 3%. I think mostly it's still culturally unacceptable here. You hear expressions like, "Salt and pepper don't mix" and mixed couples are still treated unfairly. So it's difficult, and most people avoid the hassle.