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Ha Thi Lan Anh
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Mixed Couples
March 16, 2003 - 11:28 AM
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hey guys
What do you think about mixed racial couples?
Is it ok in your religion,your culture,tradition,family value to date or marry someone from another race?
Do you like to have a partner from other race yourself?
If we have more mixed couples on earth, will that create more love and less war? Will that be a good way to promote better understanding and tolerence in diversity?
What do you think?
Lan Anh 
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Re: Mixed Couples
March 17, 2003 - 04:46 AM
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first of all, i have to say that there is no race despite the HUMAN race ... maybe you meant ethnicity 
hey, don´t forget i´m austrian, maybe you remember adolf hitler? i´m very sensitive to these issues ...
well, i see your point, marrying someone from another setting (based on physical, cultural, religious/ethical, etc. background). let me put it this way: whenever love is TRUE and people try to achieve common ground, everything goes. there is just one thing everyone has to face: things can change during the time, but this has little to do with the environment i think.
true love, respect, gratefulness, a caring heart, self-initiative and honesty are ingredients which i believe to be universal.
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on the term "race"
March 17, 2003 - 07:11 AM
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yes, i agree to these notes:
"... Citing this and other points such as the fact that a person who is considered black in one society might be nonblack in anothermany cultural anthropologists now consider race to be more a social or mental construct than an objective biological fact."
in my opinion, the term "race" is just a construct, nothing that really describes humankind in any appropriate way.
ok enough on that.
let´s come to the point ...
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Re: Mixed Couples
March 17, 2003 - 07:29 AM
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The concept that race could possibly make a difference at all in a relationship angers me. People are people, regardless or where they are from or who they descend from.
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Re: Mixed Couples
March 17, 2003 - 07:37 AM
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this is what The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
defines *race* :
A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.
A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race.
A genealogical line; a lineage.
Humans considered as a group.
Biology.
An interbreeding, usually geographically isolated population of organisms differing from other populations of the same species in the frequency of hereditary traits. A race that has been given formal taxonomic recognition is known as a subspecies.
Usage Note: The notion of race is nearly as problematic from a scientific point of view as it is from a social one. European physical anthropologists of the 17th and 18th centuries proposed various systems of racial classifications based on such observable characteristics as skin color, hair type, body proportions, and skull measurements, essentially codifying the perceived differences among broad geographic populations of humans. The traditional terms for these populationsCaucasoid (or Caucasian), Mongoloid, Negroid, and in some systems Australoidare now controversial in both technical and nontechnical usage, and in some cases they may well be considered offensive. (Caucasian does retain a certain currency in American English, but it is used almost exclusively to mean “white” or “European” rather than “belonging to the Caucasian race,” a group that includes a variety of peoples generally categorized as nonwhite.) The biological aspect of race is described today not in observable physical features but rather in such genetic characteristics as blood groups and metabolic processes, and the groupings indicated by these factors seldom coincide very neatly with those put forward by earlier physical anthropologists. Citing this and other pointssuch as the fact that a person who is considered black in one society might be nonblack in anothermany cultural anthropologists now consider race to be more a social or mental construct than an objective biological fact.
Personally, i like ur point about we are all one same kind and same human race.
And you are so right that true love is universal.personally i totally agree!
But still reality is there has something to do with the environment we live,the culture we breath ,the religion we believe in, dont you think?.For example, as i know,Muslim girls can not date non muslim guys.Do you have the same rules in other religions or culture?
And racism still exists.How does that effect mixed racial or mixed ethnics romance around the world?
And how the world will be if more and more mixed romance.. will that be more beautiful or less identical?
Id like to know what u guys see, feel, think.
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Laurent Straskraba
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Re: Mixed Couples
March 17, 2003 - 07:39 AM
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I can´t say for all Austrians but as far as I experienced, there are prejudices to foreigners in general. Also sexism is not unknow and I found myself in some discussions perceived as a "woman´s friend" (meaning a weak guy). Well, the fact is that I am not a friend of discrimination. To me, only personality and behaviour counts. I do not care about other things, though do I have personal preferences.
In Austria one can experience a strange situation: in general, people do not want to be xenophobic. But a lot of people are - and so it happens that if "culturally concerned" Austrians are among themselves they sometimes speak out what is on their mind.
Yes, racism still exists. That´s why mixed ethnic couples also have hard times in their lives. But in some countries it is no longer a "big deal", like in the Netherlands or others.
Well, most of all it depends on the couple itself how the deal with the situation. Even if both of the families have obstacles to their relationship, a TRUE loving couple will be able to survive pressure.
In my point of view, identity has much to do with personality and experience. Mixed couples would not be something special to open minded people, let me say it again: just true love is the answer =)
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Re: Mixed Couples
March 17, 2003 - 08:09 AM
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Laurent said it neatly.Love is love colors or age matter not what matter is if you luv someone ,maybe they luv you cack.In my religion a christian boy cant date a non christian girl you must turn to christ first.but who cares,rules can be broken becaus of luv.If you luv someone it never matter what religion or culture you belongs to. I agree as well theres many colors and one race it makes no diference in the world.
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Re: Mixed Couples
March 17, 2003 - 11:12 AM
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There is a discussion on this topic that was started, about interracial dating/marriage. Personally I think love is beyond anything. Question is how do you begin loving someone without actually looking at certain aspects about that person. In other words some people will not allow them selves to love anyone out of their culture while others will not allow themselves to love anyone within their culture. Why is that?
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Re: Mixed Couples
March 25, 2003 - 11:31 AM
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I think that having mixed couples are a good thing because you get to know more about diffrent cultures.I don't think there will be less war because if something happens to a country and they want to go to war then of course they will it dosn't matter on what race's are together. In my family we are allowed to have a diffrent race to marry.
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Re: Mixed Couples
September 26, 2004 - 11:00 AM
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Originally posted by trish
I think that having mixed couples are a good thing because you get to know more about diffrent cultures.I don't think there will be less war because if something happens to a country and they want to go to war then of course they will it dosn't matter on what race's are together. In my family we are allowed to have a diffrent race to marry.
I support the above quote. It will indeed make love spreed and there will less war. But at the same time, let talk about the spiritual part of the thing. Mixed couple is allow for cultural purpose and not allow in spiritual aspect of it.
Female that marry male religion differece from her own religion she will authomatically be that part of that new religion that person may find herselve. Careful need to be taken.
Thanks.
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