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Interracial Relationships
What's your opinion on this topic?
-Is there still a stigma attached to them?
-Why are IR's still quite uncommon?
-Why were they seen as being "wrong" in the past?
Just a couple of suggestions there to get you talking.
I thought of this topic after reading an article today about a woman who gave her daughter up for adoption because her family wouldn't accept the child because she was mixed race.
She is now trying to find her daughter 40 years later, but so far has had no luck tracing her. I thought this story was quite sad, but then I started thinking is this still happening in some families today, or have times really changed?
Discuss.
Interracial Relationships
What's your opinion on this topic?
-Is there still a stigma attached to them?
-Why are IR's still quite uncommon?
-Why were they seen as being "wrong" in the past?
Just a couple of suggestions there to get you talking.
I thought of this topic after reading an article today about a woman who gave her daughter up for adoption because her family wouldn't accept the child because she was mixed race.
She is now trying to find her daughter 40 years later, but so far has had no luck tracing her. I thought this story was quite sad, but then I started thinking is this still happening in some families today, or have times really changed?
Discuss.
Also they found that people mostly found their own race more attractive than others. But this isnt anything to do with the races it's just a think about people.
I see nothing wrong with it.
To be a parent of an adopted child, and to have them seek out their biological parents must be incredibly hurtful. I just can't understand why anyone would do it.
I have no idea who my biological parents are, or where they are. And I don't care.
I think dating people from another race may be more interesting and different to dating your own although WE ARE all human beings no matter what colour.
Another reason why IR are uncommon is because of the way a person has been brought up from birth - say a kid was raised in a a certain way, well when they look for mates (for love and friendship) they have a bias towards attributes that most fit their upbringing.
Hope that makes sense.
Our minds have a certain image of what is visually attractive in a mate, and if you have grown up almost exclusively with white girls, you may find the looks of girls from other races 'unorthodox', even 'abnormal'. So your mind is confused in this way, you are unsure whether or not they are attractive.
I say generally, as this is not set in stone. For example, I have always had a soft spot for chinese/asian women, but have never really found black women attractive. And this has nothing to with racism, it's just the way your own mind defines beauty. It's only the same as saying 'I don't generally like fat/skinny women' or 'I don't like tall/short women'.
Of course, once you get to know someone, all that goes out of the window - their personality is the thing that you form an opinion on, and the thing you ultimately fall in love with, but I am talking first looks/impressions here - that we all make upon meeting.
Thankfully, society is, for the most part, over such fatuous nonsense.
I can't say that I never would have had a relationship with a black girl anyway, as I don't find them especially attractive, but that's noit always the deciding factor in some relationships anyway.
As a teen, I was mightily attracted to Chinese/Japanese girls, and had I ever got the chance would certainly have tried for a relationship with one, and wouldn't have expected anyone to see anything wrong with it.
> As a teen, I was mightily attracted to Chinese/Japanese girls,
it seems to be a common trend, that, I wonder why ....
> it seems to be a common trend, that, I wonder why ....
Heh, because a good looking oriental girl is a marvelous sight to behold.