How Does the World feel About IR Marriage

Blacktiger2005 · Jun 19, 2011

Is there a source I can go to in order to research how many nations and the cultures within them feel about interracial marriage across their borders and the changes going on in the world that is forcing more people to look beyond race in choosing a mate?

Mikey · Jun 19, 2011

http://www.hubbynet.com/interracial_marriage.htm

This article was from 1996, but it gives a good explanation. I'll quote out the important parts.

In a perfect world, everyone should celebrate this. However, the world does not look at all marriages as love between two people without regard to their race.
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"If we were truly color blind, we accept interracial marriages. Nearly 500 years after America was discovered "Americans" are still preoccupied with race. Today, America is still billed internationally as one of the best multicultural societies in the world. Nevertheless, most Americans would disagree.
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Considering all the biological differences within the human species these are at best superficial, and they cannot come up with any significant set of differences that distinguish one racial group from another. Why do interracial couples still have trouble being accepted simply as two humans that love each other?
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Unless interracial families live in cosmopolitan cities where interracial marriages are becoming more common, they face challenges monoracial couples don't experience. "They need to use more energy and imagination to balance and celebrate two cultures. They must be strong enough to endure the stares, tough enough to keep working at their cultural differences and confident enough to raise confident children" (Perkins 33).
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More closer to home there are racial differences that are not specific with marriage relationships. They are the differences that occur across the board regardless of relationship, which happen because of prejudice and ignorance. Prejudice which has existed since the beginning of time along with it's twin sister ignorance.
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Take these common cultural differences combined with a marriage relationship with its own kind of problems and there are all the ingredients necessary for conflict. Each person in an interracial relationship has taken a chance. They have entered into a relationship that might not be acceptable by the prejudices of their own family or friends. For myself bringing my new Korean wife home in 1983 met with a lot of indifference from my family while other accepted her into the fold/
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