Poll: Your opinion on interracial relationships?

[Terminal Blue]

Oh, and also I'm British, so when I say Asian I mean the proper type of Asian, i.e. 'Indian' rather than Chinese. They're what's known as oriental, using Indian as a blanket term for all other Asians is offensive and quite frankly ignorant.

Dude.. Oriental is a 19th century word referring, primarily, to the middle east.

It's also fantastically offensive.

 

[SilverUchiha]

Is this an old poll from the 50's or something? You worried about "black folk takin' our womens?" lol

I honestly don't care. I don't openly support them because I'm not really involved or anything but I'm not against them because I don't see how it hurts anyone.

 

[Durgiun]

I don't care.

Now, if there's a jackoff protesting against interracial relationships, then I'm gonna argue.

 

[quiet_samurai]

I really don;t care what color you want to have a relationship with, and I myself really don't care either...I like them all, as long as it's female and attractive, I'm all over it.

However one thing I will say about interracial relationships to make them stand out is that some of THE most attractive people I have ever met were a product of one. People of mixed race tend to be very good looking.

 

[Terminal Blue]

The only issue I have is when it ties in with gender/race expectations.

Sure, most white male/asian female relationships are all fine and awesome, but then just occasionally you meet some fucking misogynist who is into asian girls because he wants a submissive little asian housewife stereotype. Sure, that pisses me off a little.

Also, white girls who see black guys as their 'bit of rough' or something to scare daddy with.

In other words.. if it genuinely makes no difference, then sure. Love is blind and all that. Having to play out racial interactions and tensions in a relationships can be a bit despicable though.

However one thing I will say about interracial relationships to make them stand out is that some of THE most attractive people I have ever met were a product of one. People of mixed race tend to be very good looking.

Amen to that..

 

[Xojins]

Why should race matter at all? Love is love, that's all there is to it.

Unless you happen to be gay, then it's wrong.
[sub]/sarcasm[/sub]

 

[astrav1]

They make gorgeous people so bring them on.

 

[sageoftruth]

This is where subconscious racism rears its ugly head with me.

I was raised in a lily-white town (as in, we had one black-white mixed-race family and a few Chinese folks who mainly ran restaurants. According to the Census Bureau via Wikipedia:

"96.94% White, 0.45% Black or African American, 0.08% Native American, 1.43% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.20% from other races, and 0.90% from two or more races." (2000 census)

And my high school was a hotbed of racism thanks to forced busing (or "school integration", if you prefer.) I was a member of a hate group myself (I got better.)

When you've got that drilled into your head from childhood that interracial relationships are wrong or unnatural or a good excuse to vent some teenage-boy frustration and beat the shit out of a black kid without the principal giving two shits (and I'm from the Northeast!)...

Well, it's gonna lead to certain visceral reactions as an adult. And I just can't get past that drilled-in-childhood revulsion at the sight of an interracial couple (and indeed, it's black guy-white girl that triggers that response in me---if I see a black guy with an Asian or an Asian with a white or any other combination, it doesn't register as unusual with me.)

I'm sorry, I really am. I try very hard to move past that. But if any black people (I won't say "African-Americans" because I'm sure an African in the UK or a Jamaican or...you get the idea...reading this would take offense) want to hate me for that, I honestly don't blame you. And if you've any advice for becoming more accepting, I'm open to it.

No problem. I understand. Racism is more than one's ideology about the world. It also comes down to subconscious emotions that strike before logic can intervene. I was raised in white suburbia, so I still get that sting of anger at the sight of hip hop culture. The important thing is recognizing it and making sure it doesn't influence your actions. Good for you.

 

[sageoftruth]

i oppose them
"bestiality" is just... not right. humans are supposed to mate with other humans, not some other animal; just as animal x doesn't mate with animal y, because it's unnatural, for it won't create any offsprings
also see: biological imperative, and the like

so, and now flame me, because i took the liberty of taking the word interracial literally ^^

Lol. Thought I'd laugh at that before someone ended up taking it seriously. Still, you probably ticked off some furries in the forum.

 

[Wintermoot]

whatever floats your boat (except necrofilia,pedofilia and bestiality)

 

[Woodsey]

Depends on the races

...

What?

OT: I clicked I've never thought about it - I know people are still hung up on gays but I really can't believe a thread even needs to be made about this.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

I have no problem with them. I'm more attracted to my own race (Caucasian), but that's just my personal preference. I don't see anything wrong with mixed-race couples. They will probably become more common as time goes on.

This is where subconscious racism rears its ugly head with me.

I was raised in a lily-white town (as in, we had one black-white mixed-race family and a few Chinese folks who mainly ran restaurants. According to the Census Bureau via Wikipedia:

"96.94% White, 0.45% Black or African American, 0.08% Native American, 1.43% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.20% from other races, and 0.90% from two or more races." (2000 census)

And my high school was a hotbed of racism thanks to forced busing (or "school integration", if you prefer.) I was a member of a hate group myself (I got better.)

When you've got that drilled into your head from childhood that interracial relationships are wrong or unnatural or a good excuse to vent some teenage-boy frustration and beat the shit out of a black kid without the principal giving two shits (and I'm from the Northeast!)...

Well, it's gonna lead to certain visceral reactions as an adult. And I just can't get past that drilled-in-childhood revulsion at the sight of an interracial couple (and indeed, it's black guy-white girl that triggers that response in me---if I see a black guy with an Asian or an Asian with a white or any other combination, it doesn't register as unusual with me.)

I'm sorry, I really am. I try very hard to move past that. But if any black people (I won't say "African-Americans" because I'm sure an African in the UK or a Jamaican or...you get the idea...reading this would take offense) want to hate me for that, I honestly don't blame you. And if you've any advice for becoming more accepting, I'm open to it.

Its nice to see that there are people out there willing to change their views on such matters. I understand that its hard for you to totally abandon parts of what you learned from childhood, but I glad to see that you are at least trying to overcome your prejudices. I'll admit that I'm not entirely comfortable about male gay couples despite the fact that I have no problems with it, but I'm trying to get over it.

So long as you're trying to get past your ingrained prejudice, I'm fine with your views.

 

[OManoghue]

I've got nothing against it, there's beautiful people everywhere, I tend to lean more towards Greek girls, because I'm a Greek guy, so I just feels more familiar, but hell, a hot Asian's a hot Asian no?

 

[Continuity]

Well as we become a global community "race" will eventually disappear anyway, ultimately, probably thousands of years from now, we will have interbred to the point where we're all just one big race anyway.

So why fight it?

Not to mention the fact that race discrimination is abhorrent anyway.

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

I support it, they could find their "one" is another color, but if their smart they still search through every race for their "one."

 

[archvile93]

I have no problem with people who engage in such relationships and feel that the people that do are backwoods dipshits who's opinions don't matter.

 

[suubersnake]

I have no problem seeing humans intermingle with other sentient species. Asari, Klingon, Xenomorph, it's all good, though I'm not sure what some women see in those Xenomorphs.

 

[Krafty_Krocodile]

Uhhh... I really don't see how anyone could be offended by them.

That's like taking offence to a BLT because it mixes bacon and tomatoes.

Mixing Bacon with Tomatoes? What blasphemy is this?

On topic: I honestly don't care either way, you cant choose who you fall in love with and whether they are different race or not shouldn't be a deciding factor on who you love.

 

[HeySeansOnline]

No reason to be against them, unless you're a racist, which I doubt anybody on The Escapist is, except for perhaps a very small, silent, minority.

Now I'm not saying all relationships should be interacial, just find someone you wish to be in a relationship with, regardless of their race.

 

[Yopaz]

i oppose them
"bestiality" is just... not right. humans are supposed to mate with other humans, not some other animal; just as animal x doesn't mate with animal y, because it's unnatural, for it won't create any offsprings
also see: biological imperative, and the like

so, and now flame me, because i took the liberty of taking the word interracial literally ^^

You've completely missed the meaning of the word race. Race means that 2 separated populations of the same species are separated enough to make the genetic variations affect morphological qualities of it, but they're still the same. Such as a bulldog and a collie and are still dogs. They can reproduce just as well, but the variation of genes will make the puppies different than their parents.
Bestiality is when you have sex with a different kind of animal which wont produce fertile offspring.
Said simply you didn't take the word literally, you didn't take it at all, but I get your point.

A biologist would claim that there's no such thing as interracial relationships with humans since we're one race. If I am to stretch far enough to say we actually are multiple races I would say interracial relationships are good because we need to take care of the genetic diversity to keep each generation fresh with a new genetic variety.
However I don't really care who you choose to reproduce with as long as it's no-one closely related.