[Secret__Police]

After reading This that and everything else on the rants and raves boards of Graigslist.org regarding interracial couples.
I thought I would ask the membership of MacNN about how you fell about interracial marriage and the benefits and problems that can and have presented themselves.

I will honestly answer all questions posted to this thread.

[mitchell_pgh]

The only issues you will have with it is other people's issues with it.

I see nothing wrong with it, but where I grew up (98% white), I'm sure you would run into a few ignorant people that might say something inappropriate (many not knowing what they were saying was wrong) [Example: Calling someone "Oriental"]

Again, while I have nothing wrong with it, I find it interesting that some people are more accepting to caucasians marrying asians as compared to african americans.

[cjrivera]

Not me...

my wife is nuts!

[Uncle Skeleton]

What race are you, S_P?

[torsoboy]

I think marrying a person of a different race is fine, but unless you have both grown up in basically the same way you will have problems that you will need to work out (more so than people that were raised in the same society). For example, marrying a Filipino woman that has grown up here is the USA would be WAY different than marrying a Filipino woman that grew up in a rural community in the Philippines. The race is not the cause of the difficulties, it is the difference in upbringings, beliefs, and all the different social aspects of it. Does a white man feel the same way about seemingly harmess black jokes as his black wife might? Does he value families in the same way she does? Do they both believe in raising their children in the same way? There is a whole lot of differences that are brought out when two people from (practically) different worlds try to make things work out.

Marriage by itself is difficult, and I think marrying interracially probably makes things even more difficult. I am in no way saying it can't work out well, I just believe that it would take more work.

And no, the problems are not just other peoples' "issues" with it.

[moonmonkey]

Orientals are OK, but they can get a bit grumpy and they don't age well.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Secret__Police 

After reading This that and everything else on the rants and raves boards of Graigslist.org regarding interracial couples.

-t