Interracial Relationships

Are less pure races a problem then?

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Seriously, I don't know the motive.

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Interracial breeding makes the human race genetically stronger.
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If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine.

Interracial breeding makes the human race genetically stronger.
Theres a lot of ignorance out there on how genetic's work when it comes to "races" and catergories of people. Theres very little to seperate most of the human race. Most differances are environmental adaption or caused by long periods of isolation but even groups such as Aborigenies (spelling?) can still be found to share common gene pools with the indian sub continent people they originated from before migrating to the australian continent.

I'm curious -- what race(s) are you, and what of your partner, and what do you think the motive is behind the condemning looks? Also, what part of which country do you live in?
I am a mixture of Asian, Native American, and African American. My partner is Caucasian. I live in the South, and the motive behind the condemning looks (which mostly come from black women) is that they are miserable and need to get a life of their own.

Seriously, I don't know the motive.

I see your gender is female on your profile -- you must be running into outright racism then, like that judge down there who refused to do a marriage for the interracial couple. If you were male and the same ethnicity, I might think that you were running into issues from African-American women, who often get quite bitter (with some justification, though not total justification) about black men running off with white women.

You ought to date people with the same color eyes and hair as you (it's about the same difference genetically, anyway).
Wouldn't want to ruin the purity, after all.

...Besides, what you're saying is a less extreme version of "People should only procreate with their siblings."

I'm white. I dated a black girl back in high school. But it was pretty brief because she got too clingy--she was a total yandere (Sweet outside, psycho inside), in fact. Nobody gave me any crap for it.
Black, white, brown, red, yellow, gray, green, blue, orange--I give everyone a chance. There's hot gals and ugly gals and everyone else in between in every race.
If she looks cute, has a good personality, and treats me well - why not?
Personally, there's a lot of mighty fine looking Asian gals and Latinas out around here. Why exclude them because they're not Caucasian like me? (And any other race, same criteria. Just aren't many as there are Latinas or Asians.)
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What's pure? As humans, everyone has the same wants and needs, bodily functions, etc. Some of the most interesting looking, even attractive looking folks, are products of mixed race parents. IMO, the concept of purity was invented to pump up deflated egos.

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I was a human being with emotions and feelings. It was as if they were dating me to spite society's rules. I resolved to just befriend guys, get to know them for a long time, and then begin dating them. Only this way, could I tell if they were dating me because they really liked me for me. My father was white and the mother was black. They married in 1957 and endured terrible hardships because of their interracial marriage. People predominately saw my siblings and myself as children to be pitied and blameless of the terrible abomination of our parents union. Now, we're in 2010 and I still see a great deal of hostility toward mixed couples. It always seems as though if you're in a restaurant, your order gets F'd up, the valet loses your key, they can't find your coat, just general torture if you are on a mixed-race date.
Then, you get the condescending ones that treat you extra special. That's annoying too. Why can't they just leave a couple in peace??! ! If you're dating a different raced person who was born and raised in your country, then there isn't that much cultural difference. Living just outside of Jersey City, I've seen more foreign people in McDonalds than anywhere else. No matter how many ways you say it, a cheeseburger is just what it is...a cheeseburger. If you're American and you want to date another American who is of a different race, it will be more fun if you both resolve to be "Americans" not Asian-american or Italian-american or etc... Culture is far heavier than color and being an "American" should come first. When you have two Americans munching together on quarter pounders with cheese, it can be fun regardless of what they "appear" to be. If you're second, third, fourth generation immigrants, leave the old country behind already!! !! Adopt the red, white and blue into your heart forever. Just be "American" that's why some of us came here in the first place. The one ethnicity I admire the most are the Italian-American men who enlisted during WWII. There were MANY enlistments of these young men who were born here from immigrant parents. They were SO eager to be American. They came here to give NOT to take. I can't stand people who can't assimilate. I think they should go back to where they came from. Sorry, if I offended anyone but that's simply how I feel...and speak English too!! !
Assimilate with who?
Learning to speak the language of the country you live in is in your own best interests. Working for the good of the country should be in everyone's interest.
Who do they assimilate with WASPS, blacks, Hispanics, hmm Native Americans maybe.
It is a good thing to remember your origins and your traditions. Many people in America have no idea which modern day country their ancestors came from. That is pretty sad.
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"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.
"How can it not know what it is?"

add in a few giant roaring furnaces in the background, and that could almost pass for one of Hitler's speeches about racial purity

Honestly though, that sounds pretty racist.
What happens when one race breeds with itself too long? Inbred genetic defects, that's what.
Mixing races helps keeps the genes diverse and fresh.
Otherwise we might end up like that one Amish community i read about that developed a tendency towards webbed feet in their community's genetics because there simply wasn't enough mixing.
Or the royal families of Europe for example are all related and because of all the royal inbreeding have developed tendencies towards deadly genetic problems like hemophilia.
what can happen to a community can also happen to a race over time.
why do you think the races look so different? different colored skin types, facial features, etc? it's merely the result of large scale inbreeding cultivating those particular traits in that particular "race" over the thousands of years that their "race" lived in relative isolation from other groups of people.
Long story short, mixing races is better in the long run and will strengthen our genetics and keep them from becoming stagnant and help keep genetic problems from becoming growing trends in any one genetically similar population.
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add in a few giant roaring furnaces in the background, and that could almost pass for one of Hitler's speeches about racial purity

Honestly though, that sounds pretty racist.
What happens when one race breeds with itself too long? Inbred genetic defects, that's what.
Mixing races helps keeps the genes diverse and fresh.
Otherwise we might end up like that one Amish community i read about that developed a tendency towards webbed feet in their community's genetics because there simply wasn't enough mixing.
Or the royal families of Europe for example are all related and because of all the royal inbreeding have developed tendencies towards deadly genetic problems like hemophilia.
what can happen to a community can also happen to a race over time.
why do you think the races look so different? different colored skin types, facial features, etc? it's merely the result of large scale inbreeding cultivating those particular traits in that particular "race" over the thousands of years that their "race" lived in relative isolation from other groups of people.
Long story short, mixing races is better in the long run and will strengthen our genetics and keep them from becoming stagnant and help keep genetic problems from becoming growing trends in any one genetically similar population.
