I never thought about if marrying someone from another white nation was considered interracial marriage; it's an interesting concept. It should be considered just as interracial as, let's say, a white and a black marrying, but it's not. This issue probably has its roots way back in human history; when our ancestors had tribes. Marrying someone from an enemy tribe was probably just as taboo as a black and a white in the post Civil War south, even though the rival tribes most likely had the same skin color. Even a conquering tribe would want to separate themselves from the conquered; not wanting to gain any weakness that that tribe had. Eventually the conquered tribe would integrate into the new tribe and any old difference would be forgotten, especially since the two tribes really didn't look that different in the first place. Now add group of people who look completely different from you; not in some minor physical thing, but in actual skin color and so on. It would make assimilation a lot harder than it used to be. There is also this whole idea on keeping your race "pure". The royal families of Europe are a great example of this. They were so inbreed that is lead to mad kings and fatal diseases, all in the name of keeping their blood pure and trying to keep power. That idea is probably still around in some form today, but I'm hopeful that it's getting better.(sorry that was really long)

I would rather date someone who is compatible with me rather than someone from the same race who utterly offends me with their personality. I'm just worried about whether they fit my qualifications. If they do, then it doesn't matter where they are from. I don't mean to sound conceited with that "fit my qualifications" remark. I mean if they are someone that I would love not, are they good enough for me because I'm so great. Maybe that wasn't the best way to word it...

The royal families of Europe actually are not considered inbred, since they do have a sizable pool to chose from... if they were marrying first cousins, siblings, etc then that would be considered inbred. However, the pool is small enough that it does make it easy for genetic defects to become common, such as hemophila... though that isn't as common as it was.

Tribes actually would encourage the absorption of the stronger elements of the conquered tribes, and they definitely took the women no matter what. There is that instinctive "this looks different, different bad" that played into the reaction between Europeans and other groups. It plays into how the Romans treated the Germanic tribes and the people of North Africa and Asia Minor, just as it played into how the Western Europeans treated Africans, Asians, Middle Easterners, and Eastern/Southern Europeans.

Yeah... for awhile if you were Italian, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Serbian, Polish, etc you were considered lesser beings... undesirables. Then again, so were the Irish, but that was for other reasons.

my 27 year old cousin just had a baby last week with a black women : the baby is full white

I wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for a mixed race relationship- so I grew up with the idea that it's fine for someone to marry any1 they love and are compatible with. The main thing is that you should share the same morals, interests, etc.

I think the reason why most people marry within their own race is because of they share cultural similarities- which is fine too

cooleo : The baby will probably get darker as he/she gets older. I looked mostly asian when I was born but as I got older- my hair got curlier and nappier and I got darker 

I don't know why people have trouble with mixed race relationships. People are just people, regardless of culture.

We're all part of the human race. Skin color should have no effect on what's right and wrong in society.

I find it funny that the ad at the bottom of my screen is for an Asian - American dating site do to the name of this thread.

Well I have to say that I do not really care. Honestly it is what's inside that counts anyways. If you like being with them you like being with them simple as that.

Its wrong,wrong i say/sarcasm.
Prejudice based on race is the sign of a weak/corrupted mind.

I'm Mixed Race. My Mum Is Guyanese And My Dad Is English. I Hate Being Called Half Caste Though, Its Like Saying I Have Half A Body...

It really seems that the majority of the more recent generations are getting past the mixed-race relationship issue as far as seeing it as a right and wrong thing. I mainly only see that with the older generations, unless the whole family is just intolerant. Otherwise, it just isn't even a big deal anymore.

Personally, I think that its silly to even have that thought in mind.  I myself, can't even bring my mind to question if mixed races should date. Its just ignorant for someone to say, "hey! your that race, you shouldn't be dating the other race!"  JEEZ.  Its plain and simple and common sense. Color, sex, size or whatever does not matter. Love whomever you want.

I don't see the problem. I don't even see the point of that question. It shouldn't be seen as a black/white person dating a white/black person or an Asian/brown person dating a brown/Asian person, it should be seen as two PEOPLE being able to express their feelings for each other openly and honestly. Love doesn't discriminate between gender, culture, race, or religion, so why should we?

Inter-racial relationships I actually strongly encourage in the sense that there should be no physical barriers regarding the limitations of love. if two people are compatible and they genuinely do love each other, regardless of ethnicity they should be permitted to be together.

That being said...

I`m going to go a slightly controversial route...what of inter-species relationships? What I refer to is humans and another sentient species, presumably an "alien" one or something along those lines, getting together. Even then...I have to say love who you love regardless of differences if possible. I admit some wouldn't be feasible in some cases in regards to necessary environments for survival (like maybe one requires intense temperatures for instance) but if both species could theoretically survive the same environments...I have to say I would encourage that as well.

zigimusprime :
.........i really hope you are trolling....
but I get the feeling you are not. What we can do to make the world a better place is to NOT segregate. I can not believe that you don't even consider your daughter -your flesh and blood- as your own. And yeah I'm taking this personally as a human being who is 100% mixed (Black AND Japanese). I would go on but I don't want to waste my time on swine like you.

I do, however, agree with you about dating people who share the same values and beliefs as you BUT race doesn't define that. The individual person does.

unknown0s : well said.

zigimusprime : You know what sickens me? people like you. i can understand wanting to keep your bloodline of mostly the same race. but hating others for interacial dating in an interaticial world is f***ed up. pure blooded people are no different no better than mixed people. what damage is interacial dating doing? aside from making your self-righteous skin crawl.