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Exploring interracial couples and dating
2008-01-11 05:58:00
Making it past the racial divide reveals the difficulties all couples ultimately face in their relationshipsWill they understand our table manners? Can they get used to our culture? Are they willing to learn our language? The clash of cultures has a resounding impact on the lives of those involved in interracial dating. Yes, they are aware that they look like “weird” couples on the outside, but the couples themselves don’t see colour, religion or anything else that causes separation. This is what carries over when culturally diverse people interact with one another in their work environments and in their day-to-day lives.Karen is mixed – Caucasian and Chinese. Her boyfriend, Chris, is Jamaican. She said her male friends sometimes made racial comments about black people directed specifically towards her boyfriend that are “so stupid, but really bothered me.” Her friends thought it was funny, but as the two started dating longer, she started to become defensive.She said sh...
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Interracial families personify promise of tolerance
2008-01-02 05:59:00
Swiss-born artist Saba Djamila, formerly known as Djamila Lininger Strauss, was born to a German mother and Algerian father. As a result of her travels and extended stays with Rastafarians in Jamaica and the Tuaregs in Timbuktu, she developed a keen interest in interracial bonding.This subject is the theme of her paintings on display through Jan. 31 at the Baobab Cultural Center. She further witnessed the complexity of interracial love when her white daughter married a black Jamaican. Would her grandchildren be black, white, sambo (quarter-white), mulatto (half white), quadroon (three-quarters white), or mestizo (seven-eighths white)? Would Santa be the white or black grandpa?Interracial issues add to the complexity of family dynamics during the holidays. Interracial adoptions have increased the prevalence of such challenges. Close to 2 million children in the United States are of a different race than one or both parents.Nonetheless, interracial coupling remains a thorny issue. Soc...
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Interracial SoulMate Relationships
2007-12-24 15:30:00
Interracial relationships have existed for thousands of years, but are just now becoming common. The very first of interracial soulmates was documented thousands of years ago. This interracial relationship was between Moses and his Ethiopian wife. Moses could not find a suitable wife within his own race. In order for him to not feel alone, he had to travel to East Africa. There, he found his mate.Moses’ experience is a classic example that shows three things. First, just because you are of one race does not mean your soulmate will be the same race as you. Second, Moses’ experience shows that your appropriate mate is not necessarily a person from the same town or locale where you reside. Lastly, it shows that while most people will find their soulmates within their own race, others must look beyond their own people.There is a disturbing and re-occurring problem I find with the dating habits of men and women. The problem is that some limit their chances of finding happiness by set...
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What do you think of interracial relationship?
2007-12-24 15:13:00
There are two viewpoints about interracial relationship:1.Let's face it. We live in a multicultural society.While in the past, people were more likely to "stick with their own kind," we are seeing a significant growth in interracial relationships. By integrating with different cultures and nationalities, we are doing away with the seeds of hate, racism, and prejudice.Interracial relationships provide individuals with the unique opportunity to learn, experience, and appreciate different cultures and backgrounds. We are given the opportunity to see the beauty in different nationalities and peoples. Most importantly, we are finally learning that the outer shell of a person does not change who they are on the inside. Deep within, we are all one in the same. Interracial relationships strengthen individuals and build harmony between different races. Learning and experiencing different cultures enrich us.Some will argue that interracial couples need to deal with more differences and a gre...
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Interracial Dating In Today's Society
2007-12-15 02:47:00
“Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight,” are lyrics from one of the most commonly known children’s church songs.Yet the state of Alabama did not legally endorse the meaning behind this religious tune until 2000 when it became the last state to overturn its anti-amalgamation laws, which had prevented whites and blacks from being married. Although law states that people of different race can now marry, date and procreate with their person of choice, it remains a divided issue today.The Civil Rights Era has come and gone and despite the removal of this unconstitutional law, society still stigmatizes mixed-race couples. The ethical and emotional fence straddling interracial dating remains divided and black and white is not yet an equal opportunity phrase. To some, Bull Connor, who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and a strong advocate of racial segregation, and white supremacy are more alive than ever. According to the opposition, it is black or white and...
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Tips For Online Interracial Dating
2007-12-14 06:47:00
Interracial online dating is popular and successful. A unique challenge in interracial dating is not how the two people of different ethnicities feel about each other, but how others react to the couple. Clearly, introducing a new boyfriend or girlfriend of a different race or ethnicity introduces another dimension. Talk openly and honestly with each other from the beginning about what you may be facing as a couple in terms of friends' and families’ reactions. There is no easy solution to prepare for prejudices. However, an honest and mutually supportive dialogue can help a couple feel they are working together as a team to deal with these challenges. Here are the important tip for interracial dating online.• Guard your identity. Remain anonymous until you feel safe and ready to explore other options. Don't include your real name or city of residence within your email address, username or interracial personals profile.• Go slow. Take your time getting comfortable talking onl...
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Successful Interracial Love Story
2007-12-10 14:14:00
I am a whtie woman. I met the black man of my dreams, litterally, at blackwhitekiss.com.I found someone who spoke to me and it clicked from day one We talk on the phone basically every day. We have always been relaxed, casual, and have fun joking. We're long-distance, but have now made the comittment to move in together. I'm leaving Indiana to live with him in California and plan on marrying.It can happen, take your time and be patient and honest. I am in love for the first time in a long time! Thank you!!!
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Interracial Couples Invest More in Kids
2007-12-09 14:48:00
Parents who are of different races, such as a white father and an Asian-American mother, spend more time and money on their kids than parents who are both of the same race, new research shows.So-called biracial (aka interracial or multiracial) parents are more likely than their "monoracial" counterparts to provide their children with a home computer, private schooling and educational books and CDs and to make sure they participate in reading activities, dance, music or art lessons outside of school and get trips to the zoo, library and other cultural venues.The "biracial advantage" only holds for comparisons with same-race couples from the two racial groups represented by the parents—for instance, if a Latino and white couple is compared with a Latino-Latino couple or a white-white couple. The finding disappears if all biracial couples, regardless of racial pairing, are compared with the entire pool of same-race couples (combining all couples that are white-white, black-black, Lat...
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Interracial Couples May Meet Four Challenge
2007-12-09 14:19:00
The Family Challenge ...There is the problem of each one merging with the other's family. After all, one's immediate family and their acceptance (or lack of it) is important. For a mate to be rejected by relatives due to color, it can be devastating and cause a rift in the relationship. Regardless of how much acceptance there might be, the individual prejudices of family members can wear on a relationship and possibly even destroy it. Interracial couples will need to discuss the possible effects that such a situation might have on their relationship.The Societal Challenge..Then there is the tendency of society to disapprove of such relationships. It is a rare workplace where one feels comfortable with introducing a mate who is from another race. Not only that, but there is always that feeling of being noticed by someone when out in public. Interracial couples have to get used to others staring at them and also being able to read lips which obviously disapprove of their presence in ...
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Primary Relationship:Interracial Couples
2007-12-09 14:05:00
Love even trancends racial bounds but that doesn't mean that everyone will be acceptingFew caucasians (whites) have a problem with anyone who would marry a native American, Hispanic, Oriental, or Mid-Easterner. The real problem with those who have racial prejudices is their disdain for anyone who mates with someone who is black. That is, unless it is another black person.This attitude stems from racial bigotry that has it's roots in slavery. Blacks are still seriously looked down upon by some in our society who have convinced themselves that they are somehow superior. As a result, the idea of a white being in a romantic relationship with a black is enough to make them go ballistic. Their narrow minds find it impossible to understand that true love knows no bounds.The good news is that younger people are less apt to be as bigoted. Despite the news coverage given those who have been caught up in the Neo-Nazi movement, more young adults than ever accept those in interracial relations...
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European women find love on death row
2007-12-09 13:20:00
Romina Deeken is a classic beauty – long and lithe, cascading blond hair, green eyes set in alabaster – not the type of woman who needs to solicit attention from men.But last year, the 24-year-old German reached out to a convicted killer on Texas' death row. Her motives were altruistic, she said, not romantic. In time, after more than 50 letters posted back and forth across the Atlantic, Ms. Deeken said, mutual feelings grew. "I have a connection with him," she explained recently, shaking slightly, tears running down her cheek. "Everyone in life has a vision, has dreams, has fears, is searching for something. He is the person I can talk deeply with about these things."Ms. Deeken's story is coffee shop talk in this small southeast Texas town, home of the maximum-security Polunsky Unit and death row.Each month, dozens of travel-weary, love-struck European women arrive in Livingston for visits with condemned inmates, a pair of four-hour chats through Plexiglas. There is no touchi...
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2007-12-08 09:45:00
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2007-12-08 09:40:00
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2007-12-08 09:30:00
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2007-12-08 09:14:00
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2007-12-07 03:53:00
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How Far Have Interracial Couples Come?
2007-12-05 15:19:00
In 1954 in a small town in Western Pennsylvania, a young white man married a young black woman with whom he had two daughters. They were married for 22 years before she died of leukemia. To date, their union has produced three daughters, nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. I am the granddaughter of those brave people. Although what my grandparents did in the racially segregated 1950s was illegal and may seem like a risky feat for the time, over four decades of racial healing later, we may not be much better off.As recently as 1967, marrying a person of another race was illegal in at least 16 states. Thanks to The Loving Decision, a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court which overturned the existing laws against interracial marriages, no one can send an interracially married couple to jail today. In the November 2000 elections, Alabama removed the last remaining traces of anti-miscegenation laws in their state when citizens voted to amend their 1901 Constitution to remove a u...
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Why More Black Women Are Dating White Men
2007-12-05 15:11:00
It looks like Black women have found a way to resolve the problem with the shortage of Black men. Black women have begun to expand their options, within recent years, by dating outside their race.Statistics show that more Black women are dating White men. Black female/White male marriages went from 27,000 in 1980 to 80,000 by 2000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.The reason for this increase in more Black women dating White men may be attributed to educational attainment, says Renea D. Nichols-Nash, author of Coping With Interracial Dating ."A study revealed that the number of Black women earning degrees increased by 55 percent since the mid '70s, but 20 percent with men," says Nichols-Nash, a journalism professor at Arizona State University. "Women who go to college and graduate want someone with the same educational level or more. Black men just aren't there. That could be one reason why more Black women are dating White men."Nichols-Nash says that opportunity, environment an...

Love Across a Cultural Divide
2007-12-05 14:29:00
Love conquers all, or so we'd like to think. But when a relationship comes up against the ties of family, culture, and tradition, it helps to have the patience of a saint and the skills of a diplomat. Increasing numbers of American couples claim mixed racial heritage, and millions of others come from mixed religious backgrounds. While many of these couples are indeed drawn to one another in part because of their differences, the same qualities that may have attracted them can become relationship stumbling blocks.Susan and Arturo are part of this growing trend toward multicultural, multiethnic relationships. Susan, a strawberry-blond optometrist from Seattle, prepared to travel with her fiancé Arturo to spend Easter at his family home in New York City. The couple had met just seven months earlier when the dashing sales rep, originally from the Dominican Republic, came into Susan's store to check his prescription. "One of the things I noticed immediately about Arturo is that he is ...
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Interracial Marriage:Love can take its toll
2007-12-03 03:13:00
In many cases, interracial families embody a mix of nationalities as well as races. Michelle Cadeau, born in Sweden, and her husband, James, born in Haiti, are raising their two sons as Americans in racially diverse West Orange, N.J., while teaching them about all three cultures.“I think the children of families like ours will be able to make a difference in the world, and do things we weren’t able to do,” Michelle Cadeau said. “It’s really important to put all their cultures together, to be aware of their roots, so they grow up not just as Swedish or Haitian or American, but as global citizens.”Meanwhile, though, there are frustrations — such as school forms for 5-year-old Justin that provide no option for him to be identified as multiracial.“I’m aware there are going to be challenges,” Michelle said. “There’s stuff that’s been working for a very long time in this country that is not going to work anymore.”The boom in interracial marriages forced the fed...
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In-your-face racism is pretty rare
2007-12-03 02:30:00
Major Cox, a black Alabamian, and his white wife, Cincinnati-born Margaret Meier, have lived on the Cox family homestead in Smut Eye, Ala., for more than 20 years, building a large circle of black and white friends while encountering relatively few hassles.“I don’t feel it, I don’t see it,” said Cox, 66, when asked about racist hostility. “I live a wonderful life as a nonracial person.”Meier says she occasionally detects some expressions of disapproval of their marriage, “but flagrant, in-your-face racism is pretty rare now.”Cox — an Army veteran and former private detective who now joins his wife in raising quarter horses — longs for a day when racial lines in America break down.“We are sitting on a powder keg of racism that’s institutionalized in our attitudes, our churches and our culture,” he said, “that’s going to destroy us if we don’t undo it.”
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Tough times for some multiracial families
2007-12-03 02:25:00
More often, though, the difficulties are more nuanced, such as those faced by Kim and Al Stamps during 13 years as an interracial couple in Jackson, Miss.Kim, a white woman raised on Cape Cod, met Al, who is black, in 1993 after she came to Jackson’s Tougaloo College to study history. Together, they run Cool Al’s — a popular hamburger restaurant — while raising a 12-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter in the state with the nation’s lowest percentage (0.7) of multiracial residents.The children are homeschooled, Kim said, because Jackson’s schools are largely divided along racial lines and might not be comfortable for biracial children. She said their family triggered a wave of “white flight” when they moved into a mostly white neighborhood four years ago — “People were saying to my kids, ’What are you doing here?”’“Making friends here has been really, really tough,” Kim said. “I’ll go five years at a time with no white friends at all.”Yet some of...
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7 percent of couples interracial
2007-12-03 02:11:00
Factoring in all racial combinations, Stanford University sociologist Michael Rosenfeld calculates that more than 7 percent of America’s 59 million married couples in 2005 were interracial, compared to less than 2 percent in 1970.Coupled with a steady flow of immigrants from all parts of the world, the surge of interracial marriages and multiracial children is producing a 21st century America more diverse than ever, with the potential to become less stratified by race.“The racial divide in the U.S. is a fundamental divide. ... but when you have the ’other’ in your own family, it’s hard to think of them as ’other’ anymore,” Rosenfeld said. “We see a blurring of the old lines, and that has to be a good thing, because the lines were artificial in the first place.”
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Black women: date outside their race
2007-11-29 09:31:00
This week's report called "African-American Women : Where They Stand" on NBC's Nightly News sparked a flurry of e-mails, conversations and thoughts throughout the network I share with women across the country.The following is a sampling of the issues discussed in the NBC report:* Finding: Forty percent of black women ages 25-34 have never been married compared to 16 percent of white women.Result: Many black women are opting to date outside their race, with the number of interracial couples for this mix hovering at around 117,000 in the U.S. alone.This growing trend is fueled by Internet dating, where people tend to let down their guards and try things they may not have considered before. Other women choose to date men who may not match them educationally or financially, but connect with them on a soul level. Some accept their state of singleness and make the most of it through vibrant careers, single parenting and social and religious activism.* Finding: More than two-thirds of bla...
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Crossing cultures on the dinner table
2007-11-27 07:42:00
Another Thanksgiving has come and gone, an event that's viewed as an exercise in cultural tolerance at our place.That's because my two elder siblings, like myself, are involved in cross-cultural, interracial relationships.My wife is of Irish/German descent, while my sister's boyfriend can trace his roots to Lawrenceville and then back to Poland. My brother, on the other hand, has arrived at dinner escorting a wider ethnic palette than the menu at the U.N. cafeteria, dating women from as far afield as Puerto Rico and Italy. One year, he brought along the only Icelandic woman within 700 miles of our hometown of Wilkinsburg.This year's dinner was no different. My side of the family, being black and hailing originally from the Deepest South, likes everything fried, greasy and fattening. My wife's side is into healthy eating so much that they're convinced watercress is a spice. As a result, our dinner choices are as divided as the Gaza Strip.Consider before-dinner beverages. My wif...
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Interracial Story:Boy meets parents
2007-11-27 07:29:00
Meeting the parents is a time-honored tradition that everyone dreads. Will they like me? Will I like them? How will this affect my relationship with my significant other? Even if you're not nervous about the meeting, you still ask yourself these questions. I know I did when I met my boyfriend's parents. Last week it was his turn to bite the bullet.I usually go home for Thanksgiving, but this year, with plane ticket prices at $450 round-trip, my parents decided to drive the 17 hours to visit me instead. They said this gave them an opportunity to take a mini-vacation and see the daughter they have not seen since early May. Of course, the other motive of the trip was to meet Johnathon, the guy I've been dating for 15 months. I met his parents about two months after we began dating. Because we are an interracial couple, I was very nervous about what they would think. But they love me. Once we got to talking, I found myself hanging out at their house, going out for birthday dinners an...
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interracial dating and the impact of hip hop music on black women
2007-11-27 07:22:00
Mara Schiavocampo, Digital Correspondent for "Nightly News," will address hot topics on interracial dating in the African American community:An Interracial friends.com poll found that 81% of participants approved of black women dating non-black men. According to a U.S. Census Bureau report in 2000, 95,000 black women were married to white men. In 2005, that number increased to 134,000. Schiavocampo will talk to experts about the trend and discuss how this defines the "Black family" of the future. . Schiavocampo will convene a panel of leading black men and women from the hip-hop industry for a discussion on whether hip hop lyrics and videos positively or negatively affect black women. The roundtable also will address how these portrayals are affecting relationships between black women and black men.
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Meet Interracial Lovers Over a Drink with InterracialFriends
2007-11-06 12:38:00
Sex and spontaneity are the two magic ingredients for a new startup called Interracial Friends, which launches today in Boston, New York City, and San Francisco after beta testing in Austin, Texas for over a month.The idea behind InterracialFriends is to bring the scheme of color-blind dating to the web. Sign up, answer some personal questions (age, height, body type, what type of date you’re looking for, etc.), and indicate the times and neighborhoods you are available to go on a quick date, even if its on very short notice. The site will then use its algorithm to match you up with someone in your area who is available during one of your time slots. Both single and double date arrangements can be made, and you can bring a friend, too, if you’re overly nervous about meeting strangers on your own.InterracialFriends is a dating site that cuts straight to the chase. Don’t expect to spend endless amounts of time filling out personality quizzes or browsing the profiles of potential ...
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What's race got to do with it?
2007-11-06 12:19:00
Alexandria MooreThe success of a man or woman does not determine whom society thinks they should love or who they will love. Love is not a counterpart to fame, so it does not matter how famous someone becomes - they are going to love whoever their heart tells them to.I've often heard African- American women say that they hate it when a black man becomes famous - he's always quick to run to a Caucasian woman to marry.They say that he forgets about the sister that stayed with his ass when he had nothing and was a nobody, and they feel that now that he has a little bit of fame and fortune, he wants to kick her to the curb like she never existed. Although this may be true for some, I don't think so.Now we do have a few brothers that chose to marry someone of a different race once they became successful, but we also have some that stuck to their beautiful black women. I hate to see women get mad over interracial marriages or dating.Ladies, it is not your business whom that man decides...
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The Color of Love
2007-11-05 10:00:00
Vivian YunThe Color of Love , an interracial dating forum presented by Alpha Kappa Alpha Incorporated and the Junior Class Council, was held on Nov. 1.Professor of the school of communication studies Thaddeus Herron led the forum in which he spoke about a variety of different aspects of interracial dating.Herron showed a 10-minute clip called “The Colors of Love” which reviewed interracial stereotypes and included montages from different movies. In addition, Herron provided a handout about stereotypes concerning interracial dating, a PowerPoint about myths and facts defining interracial dating.“Intercultural dating is more appreciated,” Herron said, “It’s so much more than the skin color, and culture plays a bigger role than race because we all come from different cultures.”AKA Chairperson junior Chiquita King thinks that it is important for students to have an open mind about things such as interracial dating.Herron agreed.“It’s important to raise awareness about i...