Now I feel sad, too.
I think I actually like it better when people are “politically correct”, if that means that they aren’t being racist. Which is, like it or not, what having “inhumane thoughts” about mixed-race children and having difficulty thinking of mixed-race people as human is. It’s racist, and I hope that you can actually get some help for it.
And you’re not even old, are you?
FWIW I disapprove of interracial couples. I see value in having a diversity of races and ethnic groups and interracial mating undermines that value. In the same way, I would be sad if Polar Bears were interbred out of existence by mixing with Brown Bears.
It’s also worth noting that as a practical matter, interracial dating makes it more difficult for members of some groups to find suitable mates. This is a serious problem for Asian men in the United States.
I like that my own group is a distinct group with an interesting culture and traditions. The only way to keep my group’s distinctiveness alive is to avoid intermarriage. I assume that a lot of people from other groups feel a similar pride about their groups and a desire to perpetuate that group’s distinctiveness.
Agreed. Not for her views, but for the way they’re apparently not actual opinions but feelings which she knows are nonsensical but can’t help having, and they’re affecting her life. It sounds almost like a phobia.
I don’t think you have much to worry about. Most people are comfortable with the familiar. But having a percentage of any given population with different traits is good for long term survival. If a portion of the Polar Bear population mix with Brown Bears, and the habitat changes due to global warming, the mixed bears may survive and carry on the Polar Bear genes. Then when the habitat returns those with Polar Bear traits will still be around.
Totally meh.
I’ve even seen enough of the less common combos (e.g. East asian guy and black woman) that I don’t find them remarkable at all.
I disagree, for example Neanderthal man is gone forever, except that your typical European now has a small percentage of Neanderthal blood. Will Neanderthals ever come back? I kinda doubt it. Maybe a few people will have some Neanderthal traits, but that’s not much.
I would guess that more recently, there are a lot of dead languages, cultures, and peoples that have been assimilated out of existence.
Do you believe it’s morally wrong, or is it just a sort of aesthetic preference? Do you disapprove of it enough that you would support making it illegal?
I suppose you’re just speaking about certain “types” of interracial dating- because this implies that you would strongly approve of interracial couples that include an Asian man. I also wonder what this attitude allows for the large and growing number of multi-racial people… should they only date each other? What about, for example, a half-black and half-Japanese person raised in Japan (and who sees himself/herself as Japanese, though most Japanese people see him/her as black)- does he/she have to find another black Japanese person (good luck with that!)?
Ahh, but race does not equal culture or tradition, in many instances (and especially in the US). I am not racially mixed (in the common sense), but my parents come from very different cultures (and different religions and countries). So while I don’t feel the lack of any distinct identity or culture (on the contrary I rather enjoy the “diversity” of my background), I think two born-and-raised Chicagoans (or New Orleanians or DC-ites or Londoners, etc.) of different races probably feel a more common culture and tradition then my parents did.
FWIW, I’m part of an interracial marriage. My spouse is from an entirely different race, culture, religion, and continent. So far it’s been great.
Am 100% happy that people mix race as long as it’s about love.
There are SOO many people riding the mixed raced bandwagon because of underlying politics, or it’s the ‘in’ thing/trend - women in particular go through phases every decade or two, where the style/race/profession of a man is massively important as they’re raised around a culture that reflects this desire.
If this is true, it’s probably true about every sort of preference with regards to dating- the trend or phase could be to date musicians, or cops, or military folks, or dancers, or immigrants, or whatever- I don’t think dating outside one’s race is anything special in this regard.
I’m not sure where you heard this, but genetic diversity has overwhelmingly been viewed as beneficial, lessening the chance for genetic defect. A mixed gene-pool is a good thing, and to the contrary, the lack of mixing has produced more harmful results; from a biological/genetic standpoint, we should mix as much as possible. It’s one thing to oppose popular ideas for the sake of doing so, but at the very least, an acknowledgement of empirical facts and evidences should have greater bearing.
As to being culturally ruinous, I’m a bit surprised to hear you express this, as it seems like a bit of a contradiction. Above you described the views of an emerging contrarian, but at the same time, you want to preserve collective culture? This is not an attack, but its a bit puzzling, as it appears to be leaning away from opposing interracial mixing, in general, and into more extreme ideas.
That said, culture has historically been prone to change, eventually, as we progress and evolve. Culture, by itself, serves its purposes (the synergy it creates among groups), but maintaining it isn’t innately “good”, just as deviation from a given culture isn’t “bad”. Some couples seek to preserve aspects of their respective culture, while others naturally drift and/or set the foundation for what becomes a new culture/practice. Such is life, it is not static.
What value is that?
Also, if you see the value in actual diversity, you should favor interracial [mixed] mating.
You have greater chances of finding a “suitable mate”, when you loosen biases and thus, afford yourself a greater selection to “pick” from.
Either way, this sounds like a bigger social hurdle, due to close-minded individuals, and at times, as an extension of conservative aspects of culture. If interracial dating were more ubiquitous, it would lessen this “issue”, without question.
Not at all. You can preserve culture and tradition by teaching your children, as humans have preserved aspects of their culture throughout history. Not all aspects of culture are lost, but they have and will eventually change.
Also, you assume, for example, that culture within its own sphere of influence doesn’t change. Even with closed societies, people and their ideas/traditions change and evolve. Many times, this process is just hastened through interaction with others.
Mine, too.
Sometimes you can only say “wow.”
Got any evidence for that?
I don’t know about “SOO many people,” but I can believe it does happen.
It’s pretty obvious that the intent of the OP was to ask what we think when we see a random, unknown-to-us interracial couple, out on the street or whatever. If you want to know about what I think about a specific interracial couple, made up of people I’m actually acquainted with to some degree, then of course what I think of that couple is going to depend on what I know about them specifically. And the fact that they are of different races may or may not influence my opinion of them as a couple. For example, if they really love and respect each other and want to be with each other despite some very real obstacles they face due to being of different races, my opinion of them goes way up. If at least one of them doesn’t much care about the other as a person and is just dating someone of that race to piss off Daddy, or because there’s a cachet or fashion in dating someone of that race, my opinion of them isn’t as high and may involve some inward eye-rolling.
The value is that I like it. Do you see value in having Polar Bears as a distinct species from Brown Bears? Or is it all the same to you if Polar Bears are assimilated and disappear as a distinct group?
Well it depends on how you define and measure “actual diversity.” In the Polar Bear example, one can imagine a situation a few generations before Polar Bears are completely assimilated and disappear. At that time, there will be a small number of Polar Bears; a large number of Brown Bears; and a medium number of mixed Bears. In your view, does that situation have more “actual diversity” than a situation where Brown Bears and Polar Bears are distinct, separate groups?
I’m not sure that it’s a conscious process. And even if it were, the other person has to find you attractive as well.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Interracial dating has been around for a good number of years and there is still a wide disparity, for example, between black/white couples and white/black couples. Why do you assume that the disparity would go away? Do you have any evidence besides your own wishes?
If those children are also taught (and identify with) the culture and tradition of the dominant majority culture, it seems pretty likely that the minority culture will get assimilated out of existence pretty fast.
I don’t assume that at all. There is a difference between traditions which change and evolve over time and traditions which get assimilated out of existence.
Brazil must be your idea of hell on Earth, then. Surprising that you’d want your online persona associated with that cesspool of miscegenation (regardless of what it actually refers to).
And on that note, anyone who can look at Brazilian women (or men, if that’s your thing) and declare that race-mixing isn’t a good thing needs to see an ophthalmologist, if not a neurologist.
Bravo!
Yay! Gross cultural acceptance! 
What?
It’s called humor. 
Change the one letter, and meaning changes. LOL
You are an odd one.