Interracial Marriages: Still Taboo?
SodaHead Living
2010/06/07 15:00:00
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Since 1980, a Pew Research Center study found that there is an increase of couples marrying outside of their race.
“From what we can tell, this is the highest (percentage of interracial marriage) it has ever been,” senior demographer Jeffrey Passel, for the Pew Research Center, told CNN.
That percent is nearly 14.6, which is an increased compared to 6.8 percent of newly married interracial couples in 1980.
The study that was released last week found that the racial divide is closing as more people are finding love outside of their races. Researchers of the study spoke with newlyweds who have been married for less than a year in 2008.
Other similar studies have found that not only are interracial marriages are becoming more common, but have become more accepting, especially with the younger generation. These types of marriages are one of the signs that racism is not what it used to be.
More than 50 years ago interracial couples were looked down on in society and in some states it was against the law to marry outside someone’s own race.
However, as the Pew study shows, the racial lines have become blurry as more people are marrying outside of their race.
As Priya Merrill, an Indian who married her white husband Andrew Merrill last August, said:
“Sometimes I just forget that we’re interracial. I don't really think about it.”
Would you marry or date outside of your race?
“From what we can tell, this is the highest (percentage of interracial marriage) it has ever been,” senior demographer Jeffrey Passel, for the Pew Research Center, told CNN.
That percent is nearly 14.6, which is an increased compared to 6.8 percent of newly married interracial couples in 1980.
The study that was released last week found that the racial divide is closing as more people are finding love outside of their races. Researchers of the study spoke with newlyweds who have been married for less than a year in 2008.
Other similar studies have found that not only are interracial marriages are becoming more common, but have become more accepting, especially with the younger generation. These types of marriages are one of the signs that racism is not what it used to be.
More than 50 years ago interracial couples were looked down on in society and in some states it was against the law to marry outside someone’s own race.
However, as the Pew study shows, the racial lines have become blurry as more people are marrying outside of their race.
As Priya Merrill, an Indian who married her white husband Andrew Merrill last August, said:
“Sometimes I just forget that we’re interracial. I don't really think about it.”
Would you marry or date outside of your race?
Read More: http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/06/04/pew.interraci...
Top Opinion
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Yes, I would marry/date outside of my race.
+35Why do so many people think that love is a bad thing? Do we care what color our lover's stomach lining is? No. So why care about their skin color?
The races have been screwing and intermarrying for thousands of years in their travels to other lands. I know it may seem hard for someone like you to believe, but the vast majority are past this "keep the race alive" nonsense. In fact, most people are mixed in some way. Human beings started out as one ethnicity, so it only makes sense that we'll go extinct as one ethnicity.
You do what you wanna do, but as for me, I have very little interest in girls of my own race.
I'll date whoever I wanna date. I certainly don't need anyone's approval.
Mainly because of what the term has been distorted to mean in this sense.
People should not judge by skin color or national origin. Simply my opinion of course.
However I feel that the above photo posted to this forum is also out of place here.
here's a thought; If a married a Jew, our children would be both Jewish AND Palestinian. Chew on that.
My advice to you is date as many women as you can regardless of type. Each and every one is an experience. (some good, some not so good but will make great anecdotes later in life)
My son is a Spaniard/German/Russian mix. His current GF is Burmese. Enough of a mix, do you think?
Maybe you had better do a little investigating. All those northern European tribes you mentioned were subjects of the Roman empire. Rome was a conquering empire which means they interbred with every subjugated people they conquered and many of the children resulting from those unions were considered Roman, and those mixed breed Romans were all over northern Europe interbreeding with those same ancestors you are so proud of when they were subjects of the Roman Empire.
So unless you can successfully trace and document your ancestry to Pre-Roman occupation, you are just as mixed as anyone else, and I don't care what Tom Metzger tells you.
But harping on a "pure" white bloodline like you aren't mixed? That is small minded self deception. You prove every time you say you don't believe in "mixing" just how shallow you really are because you are judging people on their ethnic background. Last I heard that's exactly what racism is. Luckily you are in a shrinking minority!
Black Nubian Africans were pretty much confined to a virtual paleolithic-like civilization during the heady days of the Roman Empire; as they were 5000 before and, to some extant, still are in this, the 21st. century.
Sure there were a few Nubian Blacks in Rome - 99.9% were slaves, however. How many Roman citizens were black, eh?
P.S. Quite reasearching articles/documents that are Afro-centric in nature. That kind of thinking will rot your brain.
And Moor did not just apply to Arabs (which by the way according to the Euro-centric view are now claimed to be white) it applied to ALL dark skinned people. I love those who wish to rewrite history to support their own narrow "white" view of the world. It is you and your buddy red who seem to think Mixed means black/white it think that says a lot about what your true views are.
Nice try, however, next time you need to vent your frustration, drop Al Sharpton or Lewis Farrakhan a line - am sure they'll be willing to lend a sympathetic ear.
If you MUST respond again, do what you must -but I've heard enough of your theories and have no more to say on the subject. Case closed !!