Referring to the answer by “hello there” posted here:http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?…
He says:
“if you really see nothing wrong with yourself for having mixed… why do you continue to try so hard to normalize yourself… to associate yourself with people with whom you are emphatically unlike… to the point that you so blatantly lie in how nobody batted an eyelid. are you that much in denial?”
Why would he be so sure that I am lying when I say that I have never received any backlash for marrying outside of my race, either here in Australia, or in any other country that I have visited? Why does he assume that I need to try hard to associate myself with white people, as if my family/community would rather affiliate with him than with me?
The whole white/black thing aside, are many white American communities opposed to marrying ANY alternate race?
And do Americans typically assume that other countries would be similar in this respect?
Have many Americans been over seas before?
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Do Many Americans Believe That Their Racial Tensions Are Universal?
Posted on April 9, 2013.
Why are you worried about what Americans think? have you ever been HERE? the bulk of us don’t give a flying f*ck who marries who.
Well, frankly, I don’t even understand what “Hello there” is trying to say!
“Are many white American communities opposed to marrying ANY alternate race?” No, at least not where I live, anyway. For example, my white cousin’s husband is black, and her marrying him wasn’t a big deal at all. They have mixed kids who we all adore and we’ve had no problem incorporating them into our family. I can’t speak for everywhere, but where I live interracial couples aren’t some big controversial thing.
“And do Americans typically assume that other countries would be similar in this respect?” Eh, well, I’m perhaps not a “typical” American, but I don’t know if the “typical” American would or not…but if some assume that it wouldn’t surprise me.
“Have many Americans been over seas before?” Well, I don’t have any statistics or anything, so I can’t really say, but sadly there are some Americans who are very ignorant in regards to different cultures.
But to sum it up, most Americans really don’t care about what race people are.
I don’t really agree with Sam.
White Americans seem to have a hierarchy of who is acceptable to marry other than whites. I guess if you’re going to talk about “white American communities,” which is weird–never heard that before–you could break them down into Jewish, Republican, Democrat as far as the most common. Republicans are more opposed to marrying someone who isn’t white, but for both Dems and Republicans if they go outside their race the hierarchy goes Asian–>Latino–>black, with Republicans being less likely to marry anyone from any of these groups. Jewish people when they marry outside their race seem to marry blacks most often.
The average white American will say they are open to any race, but that’s usually not true. If you go on dating sites, for example, the average white profile eliminates black people completely as potential partners. Some list every group BUT black. And most white people who say they’re open have never dated a black person.
White Americans tend not to think about other countries or what race relations are like there. But I know black people worry about traveling overseas because, yes, they assume other countries are racist or just don’t know what to expect. I don’t know that Asians worry about this the way black people do. And the majority of Americans do not go overseas.
Frankly, though, racism does seem like something that would be universal. It seems like it’s human nature for people to have issues with differences, and there are very few more obvious differences in the world than race.