What do you think about Interracial relationships?

There should be more of them in this world!!!!:flowerforyou: i love seeing mixed race couples. Makes me happy to see people choosing to love someone from another culture/race.

Both of my parents (divorced) are in interracial relationships. My husband's best friend is in an interracial relationship. MY best friend is in an interracial relationship. I've never even considered having a problem with it, nor have any of these people openly experienced any kind of weirdness/judgment as far as I know.

The only weird thing I encounter is when my mother's friends ask me about my "stepbrother," who is in fact technically my half-brother as we emerged from the same uterus. BUT he is a completely different color than I am, so I think that confuses people.

My Dad's percpection is that it is way better to have mixed children. He is a farmer and knows that mixed breed animals are way healthier then pure breds. He also says this in front of people. (Thanks Dad to comparing us to cows and talking about breeding) :embarassed:

I think there aren't enough interracial relationships! There should be more!
I believe interracial relationships will end racism for good because there will be a day when the whole world will be a beautiful beige! :happy:

I'm all for interracial relationships. I've been in a few of them in my past - dated a black man, a hispanic man, and a guy from the middle east. We all got looks of course, but I didn't care, and you shouldn't either. All that matters is that the two of you love each other and make the other happy. Shouldn't matter if you're white, black, purple with pink polka dots, or have zebra stripes. Love is just that - love. It shouldn't have restrictions on it. You will always get looks, people will pass judgement, it's what people do. My boyfriend and I get looks quite a bit. He's white, but a tall bean pole. (6'4 and weighs maybe 175). Me on the other hand, 5'11 and, well, not 175lbs LOL. His 'friends' have made comments and questioned why he's "with a fat chick" and how he "can do so much better". But he's stuck by me in the best and worst of times, and I couldn't be more thankful. There are people we will all come across that will judge our relationships, and we will feel like we need to justify our relationship to them. But in all reality, we don't. As long as you are both happy, then screw what everyone else thinks.

I think that people are people, and regardles of anyone's skin colour, country of origin, religious background etc etc...if you love each other it shouldn't be a problem. The reality however is sometimes cruel.

I dated an Italian Catholic guy for a few years, and his family were so horrible to me, they would basically tell him as soon as I walked out of the room that they wish he'd found a 'good italian catholic girl' and that he could do better than a 'faithless Aussie". In the end, it was just too hard. I guess it wasn't meant to be because as if it was real love he would have found a way to set them straight, but he was so afraid of offending his parents and his grandparents that we just couldn't get past it.

I'm now dating a fellow Aussie, but my background is actually Indian. It's really wonderful. Thankfully my grandparents are so different to other immigrants here, they came to Australia in the 60's and really embraced the lifestyle here and proudly refer to themselves as Australian. My mum and all of her siblings ended up with Aussie partners and there was never any pressure from my grandparents to date within their own ethnicity. They still make a wicked curry and in the hot weather my grandma is known to wear a sari...but they're happy to have a bbq too - if only everyone could be so accepting, maybe we wouldn't even need to have this dicussion!

My boyfriend is black and ofcourse, I am white.. And to make us even more "different" I am from Canada and he is from the US. I feel like so many people are judgemental of us. I'm so tired of people judging our relationship based on our difference in cultures. And by interracial, I obviously don't just mean black and white relationships.

I'm actually questioning whether this is a real question? Are you serious? Who is being judgmental? Are these family members or close friends? You said, "So many people"......are these just idiots off the street who give you dirty looks? I guess I'm kind of incredulous because almost everyone I know is in a interracial relationship (slight exaggeration....keyword slight). It's like someone time warped you from the 1950's to the present day. If the people giving you a hard time are your family members....you kinda stuck with that, or just choose not the see them. If they're friends, get new friends. If they're strangers on the street, give the bird and tell 'em to go screw themselves, world will never be idiot free. Or move. Place you're living in is overrun with wack-jobs. The fact this is still even being discussed is mind-blowing. None of my interracial friends/couples experience the kind of prejudice you're describing. I'm not saying you're lying, I'm just saying you must live in a very backwards place.

edited for clarity. I have asked once or twice to most (many) of my interracial couple friends and they've repeatedly said they rarely if ever experience the level of prejudice you are describing so it isn't my opinion, this statement is coming from them. Of course I live in southern California, don't know if that has something to do with it. Here you could probably have a relationship with a small farm animal and people wouldn't look twice.

In my opinion, we're all the same race, the human race!! But, that's just me!! :happy:

Nothing wrong with it Im in one now and I am very happy

i am a result of one, and thusly feel nothing about them- ie i dont give a crap about who or what you do "it" with