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Will
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Thumbs Up for Interacial Relationships!!
August 28, 2003 - 03:26 AM
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What are your views on interracial relationships? I am a man of African descent,and my wife is a woman of Mexican descent but I do not see her as being Mexican (I have not forgotten). I just see her as my wife. We do not deal in colour. We deal in love, respect, positive communication, and the pursuit of each others dreams.
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Re: Thumbs Up for Interacial Relationships!!
August 28, 2003 - 04:31 AM
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Well said, willsaid2003 (no pun intended). For some reason, people tend to have some kind of inclination towards people of their own skin color. I'm a Chinese guy, and I'd like to be one of those whose relationships are not inhibited because of the things I can't help (i.e. skin color).
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Re: Thumbs Up for Interacial Relationships!!
August 29, 2003 - 04:32 AM
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Race should not bare a boundary when it comes to a relationship, nor should backround, religion etc. It does and that is awful. One person is not neccissarily a picture of their country, good or bad. And your skin color does not say who you are. A person is a person, their personality should determine how they are received.
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race doesn't matter
August 30, 2003 - 02:28 AM
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...cause boys are stupid in EVERY color!!:-) cheese! :-)
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Re: Thumbs Up for Interacial Relationships!!
November 15, 2003 - 07:24 AM
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I completely agree with opinionram14. A person is a person, and to love a person is look past their color of their skin and into their heart.
I'm a Chinese person too, and I've been in a relationship with anyone not Chinese or Cantonese-fluent. It's not an intentional decision, and it's not as though I shun people of other cultures. It's just the way I've been brought up, I think. As Chinese immigrants to Canada, my parents do not speak a word of English. My family friends are all from Hong Kong, I shop at Chinese supermarkets, I go to Chinese malls, and I generally seem to feel more comfortable with Chinese people. I'd like to say that I don't allow race to inhibit me in my relationships, but I think I'd be lying. I wish I could, too, be "color"-blind, but I don't know where to begin to change all the lessons I've been taught all my life.
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Re: Thumbs Up for Interacial Relationships!!
November 16, 2003 - 03:26 AM
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beginning to change the lessons we have been taught all our lives... well put. Yes, the issues of race are important. I mean, they DO affect us; our challenge is to become more conscious about them, more aware of them. I have been together with a chinese girl for about 4 years (from Hong Kong) and well, race has both not been an issue and been an issue. The love is based on heart, not skin color. Yet race also means culture, and the cultural differences Are there.
Would the race issue be an issue even if we both lived in the same country? I don't think so, really. It depends on who you are and what your social surroundings are like. I mean, if you are a chinese living in Canada and your whole family is used to just dealing with chinese people, then perhaps it would be considered strange if you suddenly date a white canadian, or a black one. It is also a question of integration into a multicultural society.
I think interracial relationships are exciting, open-minded and culturally enriching. But this I say as in inter-cultural relationship. If say both you and your partner is born and raised in Canada and both speak Canadian and do not really have a close bond to the country of your ancestors, then the question is: Is your relationship interracial? Intercultural? Interracial yes, genetically speaking so. But would the race then matter, at all? Argh, difficult subject... easy to tangle oneself into ones notions on race and culture... 
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Re: Thumbs Up for Interacial Relationships!!
June 14, 2004 - 06:01 AM
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The only race within the humanity = The human race
So what are "Interracial Relationships" ? 
Udara
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Re: Thumbs Up for Interacial Relationships!!
July 3, 2004 - 01:26 AM
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There's a natural inclination to a mate of your own skin color for many reasons.
The first, being society-manifested rascism and prejudice that leads people to exclude certain races. (An obvious one)
And the second, which applies even to the most liberal, peace loving hippy at woodstock, is the inhereted genetic characteristics, which's natural instincts lead us to be stand-offish to persons that are different from ourselves and family. This is where racism originally is bred.
And to be honest, if we were black and white gorillas without any sense of the human reason which we pocess today, there would be alot more interracial violence.
Racism isn't a product of our times.
(I get this information from neurological and psychological literary resources which i can site upon request.)
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Re: Thumbs Up for Interacial Relationships!!
July 3, 2004 - 01:49 AM
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It's weird because my dad always made it known how much against it he is. Yet he is of a different race then my mom.
Big hypocrite if you ask me.
I personally see no reason why it can't work.
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Polly Withington
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interacial relationships
August 8, 2004 - 12:56 PM
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I just want to comment on the interracial relationships. I guess I can understand why people have an opinion about marrying or having a relationships with the same culture...to preserve that culture. However, if their opinion is hate, bias, disgust because of an interacial relationship, then they need some councilling. My husband is European, I am not. I think that this can pose problems concerning what is culturally acceptable to one and not the other. If we choose to go into relationships with other cultures etc, then we must think about respect between the couple/s first. We have to try and understand another culture and this is hard sometimes when we expect the other to 'go along' with how we think as a culture.
All I can say is that I have been married for 17 years to this wonderful, hard working man from another culture. And the bonus, we have gorgeous children, gold hair, sunkissed skin and beautiful brown eyes..
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Thumbs Up for Interacial Relationships!!
August 13, 2004 - 08:14 AM
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I am a strong supporter of interacial relationships! I myself am involved in an interacial relationship and i have learned so much! I am a portuguese canadian and my boyfriend is a chinese canadian. We too never deal with each other in terms of what race we belong to. We look at eachother as equals. We are simply to people in love. Love has no colour, no race, and no prejudice and that is how we view eachother. It is a struggle sometimes because family members will always have expectations and opinions on the kind of person one dates and my parents are not in favour of interacial relationships. This has been not only difficult to deal with but also hurtful. It's a challenge but it is one that i wouldn't give up for anything!
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Re: Thumbs Up for Interacial Relationships!!
January 15, 2005 - 02:23 AM
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Willsaid2003,
Have a great and prosperous marriage life.
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Frank Tulloch
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Love is blind ... is this a bad thing?
January 15, 2005 - 12:26 PM
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Love sees no Colour. It sees no Race. It sees someone who makes you happy. It feels warmth and all that is good in a person. Colour, Race, size, shape. These are vales that prevent us from seeing some one for who they realy are. I could go on with this but I bet all of you want to hear testaments ... Fine. I am in China and I am in a Interracial Relationship. Not with a Chinese funnily enough. This is my first Love and I pray to the heavens above that she is me only. I am from a country that is very divers in colour and race. I went to school and have lived with many many many different kids of ppl. so i know no colour. I know not nice ppl, I know not so bad ppl, I know sweet girls, I know the ones Mummy will tell you to avoid. LOL I am A strong man who Loves to talk to different ppl about what they believe Love really is and who is doing it right. I have my ideas about it all. See we all have our own ideas about what Love really is and what is to be done with it. I say find some one who believes it the same way you do or as close to it as possible. ... I could go on and on with this topic in all sorts of directions to I will sign off for now. Till the next text
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Polly Withington
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Re: Thumbs Up for Interacial Relationships!!
February 6, 2005 - 06:29 AM
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Well said Will, I'll cheers that!!
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Jessie Giles
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Cross Cultural Relationships
February 8, 2005 - 10:03 AM
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I think cross cultural relationships is a better way of putting Interracial Relationships, I don't really know why i think that but i do!
I think they are great. They promote a united world, etc etc.
Though the one issue I would like to bring up is that what will happen if one day all people are the same colour and people loss different cultures due to every one being so mixed up racially!!!????
What do people think.
Any way I think cross cultural relationships are fantastic.
I am a white australian who has only ever gone out with guys who are of a different culture.
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