After 40 years, interracial marriage flourishing

NEW YORK - The charisma king of the 2008 presidential field. The world's best golfer. The captain of the New York Yankees. Besides superstardom, Barack Obama, Tiger Woods and Derek Jeter have another common bond: Each is the child of an interracial mariage.

For most of U.S. history, in most communities, such unions were taboo.

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This is amazing, why it only took us 40 years ...

Its really sad that people there are still people in this world against marrying outside of their own race.  Almost as if other races are inferior or something (which no one is better than the other).

why you quoted that and not the most important bit in the article I'll never know: "More than 7 percent of 59 million unions are between races" which is a good thingnickmag

I fail to see why the color of a person's skin factors into their marriage being a "good thing"....... but to each his own

[QUOTE="nickmag"]why you quoted that and not the most important bit in the article I'll never know: "More than 7 percent of 59 million unions are between races" which is a good thingSIapshot

I fail to see why the color of a person's skin factors into their marriage being a "good thing"....... but to each his own

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[QUOTE="nickmag"]why you quoted that and not the most important bit in the article I'll never know: "More than 7 percent of 59 million unions are between races" which is a good thingnickmag

I fail to see why the color of a person's skin factors into their marriage being a "good thing"....... but to each his own

It is a good thing that progress has been made since the Civil Rights Era and de-segregation of public areas, but unfortunately recently we have been taking a step back with what has been going on in the news.videogamer456

This is amazing, why it only took us 40 years ...

Its really sad that people there are still people in this world against marrying outside of their own race.  Almost as if other races are inferior or something (which no one is better than the other).

LiquidZ08

It's not that other ethnicities are inferior, people want their ethnic customs to be carried on to the next generation. This is true of Japanese culture, Irish culture, African culture, Jewish culture, Italian culture, etc.

There isn't one single ethnicity where the majority of marriages are interracial, the majority of marriages within a specific culture are usually to another of the same ethnic background. If you think that it's good for people to marry outside their culture and raise children of mixed cultural background, just consider the loss of cultural identity.

I think that cultural variety is a good thing, but by blending everybody together we are losing that variety.

do they accept Gay marrage already ?

some americans make alot of stupid things look like big problems

Europe, the real continent for world wars and civilisation 8)

It seems like black men and white women is starting to become acceptable, but not vice versa.MarkSmith

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[QUOTE="nickmag"]why you quoted that and not the most important bit in the article I'll never know: "More than 7 percent of 59 million unions are between races" which is a good thingnickmag

I fail to see why the color of a person's skin factors into their marriage being a "good thing"....... but to each his own

Agreed, but why is 7% a good thing? Would 5 be better? or 50%? Freedom is great, but why do you feel that increasing interracial marriage is a good thing? If everybody married whoever they wanted and the percentage was 0, would that still be a good thing?

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This is amazing, why it only took us 40 years ...

Its really sad that people there are still people in this world against marrying outside of their own race. Almost as if other races are inferior or something (which no one is better than the other).

SIapshot

It's not that other ethnicities are inferior, people want their ethnic customs to be carried on to the next generation. This is true of Japanese culture, Irish culture, African culture, Jewish culture, Italian culture, etc.

There isn't one single ethnicity where the majority of marriages are interracial, the majority of marriages within a specific culture are usually to another of the same ethnic background. If you think that it's good for people to marry outside their culture and raise children of mixed cultural background, just consider the loss of cultural identity.

I think that cultural variety is a good thing, but by blending everybody together we are losing that variety.

The relationship between culture and mixed race is flimsy at best, your conjecturing, show us some proof. I guess it could just be another taste people have but I don't think they have valid cause for their concerns.

On an siede if people want to stay in their own ethinicity then I don't see the problem, it's just a taste, but condeming it for other people is one step too far IMO.

Though I have to agree with the points you made in the lower post about it being hard to seperate out what people want with the actual marriage rate, for all we know this could be 100% of interacial relationships being followed through, how you interpret the information is actually quite open.

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[QUOTE="nickmag"]why you quoted that and not the most important bit in the article I'll never know: "More than 7 percent of 59 million unions are between races" which is a good thingSIapshot

I fail to see why the color of a person's skin factors into their marriage being a "good thing"....... but to each his own

Agreed, but why is 7% a good thing? Would 5 be better? or 50%? Freedom is great, but why do you feel that increasing interracial marriage is a good thing? If everybody married whoever they wanted and the percentage was 0, would that still be a good thing?

Sorry but my great grandparents got  a head start in this in 1900 and my grandparents in 1939.  :lol:

It's good to know that but my family is too mixed even before coming to America.  

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This is amazing, why it only took us 40 years ...

Its really sad that people there are still people in this world against marrying outside of their own race. Almost as if other races are inferior or something (which no one is better than the other).

Articuno76

It's not that other ethnicities are inferior, people want their ethnic customs to be carried on to the next generation. This is true of Japanese culture, Irish culture, African culture, Jewish culture, Italian culture, etc.

There isn't one single ethnicity where the majority of marriages are interracial, the majority of marriages within a specific culture are usually to another of the same ethnic background. If you think that it's good for people to marry outside their culture and raise children of mixed cultural background, just consider the loss of cultural identity.

I think that cultural variety is a good thing, but by blending everybody together we are losing that variety.

The relationship between culture and mixed race is flimsy at best, your conjecturing, show us some proof. I guess it could just be another taste people have but I don't think they have valid cause for their concerns.

On an siede if people want to stay in their own ethinicity then I don't see the problem, it's just a taste, but condeming it for other people is one step too far IMO.

Though I have to agree with the points you made in the lower post about it being hard to seperate out what people want with the actual marriage rate, for all we know this could be 100% of interacial relationships being followed through, how you interpret the information is actually quite open.

There is no conjecture here, the statistics speak for themselves. Intercultural and interracial marriages constitute the minority of unions in all homogenous cultures. Most people would tend to accept that this is the result of preference. (and hence the continuation of said cultures)

I have yet to see a post in this thread condemning interracial marriage.

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[QUOTE="OBLOK"][This message was deleted at the request of the original poster]dremorius20

I was gonna tell a story about my brother but decided after that OT isn't a good place to tell family stories, so f u. 

There is no conjecture here, the statistics speak for themselves. Intercultural and interracial marriages constitute the minority of unions in all homogenous cultures. Most people would tend to accept that this is the result of preference. (and hence the continuation of said cultures)SIapshot

Can you prove this is anything beyond coincidence? Or am I reading too much into this in assuming that you meant people "conciously" use same ethiniticity relationships to preserve a cultural idenity? Right now your making a pretty big assumption that ethnicity is tied to the preservation of culture (if it were the case then if the rate of interaccial marriages was quite slow it wouldn't really effect the culture all that much so far as I can see).

[QUOTE="dremorius20"][QUOTE="OBLOK"][This message was deleted at the request of the original poster]OBLOK

I was gonna tell a story about my brother but decided after that OT isn't a good place to tell family stories, so f u. 

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[QUOTE="dremorius20"][QUOTE="OBLOK"][This message was deleted at the request of the original poster]dremorius20

I was gonna tell a story about my brother but decided after that OT isn't a good place to tell family stories, so f u.

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[QUOTE="dremorius20"][QUOTE="OBLOK"][This message was deleted at the request of the original poster]OBLOK

I was gonna tell a story about my brother but decided after that OT isn't a good place to tell family stories, so f u.

This is amazing, why it only took us 40 years ...

Its really sad that people there are still people in this world against marrying outside of their own race. Almost as if other races are inferior or something (which no one is better than the other).

LiquidZ08

Pretty Much

Still up for a fight?dremorius20

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There is no conjecture here, the statistics speak for themselves. Intercultural and interracial marriages constitute the minority of unions in all homogenous cultures. Most people would tend to accept that this is the result of preference. (and hence the continuation of said cultures)Articuno76

Can you prove this is anything beyond coincidence? Or am I reading too much into this in assuming that you meant people "conciously" use same ethiniticity relationships to preserve a cultural idenity? Right now your making a pretty big assumption that ethnicity is tied to the preservation of culture (if it were the case then if the rate of interaccial marriages was quite slow it wouldn't really effect the culture all that much so far as I can see).

[QUOTE="dremorius20"]Still up for a fight?OBLOK

[QUOTE="OBLOK"][QUOTE="dremorius20"]Still up for a fight?dremorius20

[QUOTE="Articuno76"][QUOTE="SIapshot"]

There is no conjecture here, the statistics speak for themselves. Intercultural and interracial marriages constitute the minority of unions in all homogenous cultures. Most people would tend to accept that this is the result of preference. (and hence the continuation of said cultures)SIapshot

Can you prove this is anything beyond coincidence? Or am I reading too much into this in assuming that you meant people "conciously" use same ethiniticity relationships to preserve a cultural idenity? Right now your making a pretty big assumption that ethnicity is tied to the preservation of culture (if it were the case then if the rate of interaccial marriages was quite slow it wouldn't really effect the culture all that much so far as I can see).

Ok, so we can rule out coincidence, but neither does that rule out that the idea of cultural identityis directing things here (even subconciously),  what about other extraneous factors, like media? We don't see all that much interacial relationships going on there.

[QUOTE="dremorius20"][QUOTE="OBLOK"][QUOTE="dremorius20"]Still up for a fight?OBLOK

Cut it out, this is going beyond the scope of this topic.

[QUOTE="OBLOK"][QUOTE="dremorius20"][QUOTE="OBLOK"][QUOTE="dremorius20"]Still up for a fight?Articuno76

Cut it out, this is going beyond the scope of this topic.

This is sick, but it's other people choice and I repect that, doesn't mean I agree with it though.Kev_Boy

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[QUOTE="OBLOK"][QUOTE="dremorius20"][QUOTE="OBLOK"][QUOTE="dremorius20"]Still up for a fight?dremorius20

Cut it out, this is going beyond the scope of this topic.

Interracial MarriageKev_Boy

Interracial MarriageKev_Boy