NationStates Jolt Archive


Inter-racial Marriages

Dhaka
20-05-2004, 08:58
I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF INTER RACIAL MARRIAGES WORK...
WHEN TWO PPL FRM TWO DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUP MARRY.

SO DO THEY WORK OR DONT THEY?
WHAT ARE THE PRO'S AND CON'S?
WHAT IF THY ARE FROM DIFFERENT RELIGIONS? :roll:

:!: :?: :arrow:
Mutant Dogs
20-05-2004, 08:58
It's all good
Colodia
20-05-2004, 08:59
It's all good
Argyres
20-05-2004, 08:59
My Mom's Greek and Greek Orthodox..my Dad's Indian and Hindu...I'm dating a Chinese girl who is CAtholic. Works ok for me ;)
Raysian Military Tech
20-05-2004, 09:00
what would be wrong with different races? It's just skin color... it's not like blacks or latinos are any less able to have children, or their genitalia aren't compatible :P

But as for religions... it depends on the religions :)
Soviet Democracy
20-05-2004, 09:00
I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF INTER RACIAL MARRIAGES WORK...
WHEN TWO PPL FRM TWO DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUP MARRY.

SO DO THEY WORK OR DONT THEY?
WHAT ARE THE PRO'S AND CON'S?
WHAT IF THY ARE FROM DIFFERENT RELIGIONS? :roll:

:!: :?: :arrow:

In other words...

I just want to know if inter racial marriages works...
When two ppl frm two different ethnic group marry.

So do they work or dont they?
What are the pro's and con's?
What is they are from different religions? :roll:

:!: :?: :arrow:
Free Outer Eugenia
20-05-2004, 09:02
Marriages don't work. Period.
Mutant Dogs
20-05-2004, 09:02
Marriges don't work. Period.

Its all good
Soviet Democracy
20-05-2004, 09:02
Marriges don't work. Period.

Awwwww...they can, if the sex life stays healthy.
imported_Celeborne
20-05-2004, 09:03
I have seen sevral work, and I am in an interracial relationship right now. She is Cuban, I am Danish/Native american.
Free Outer Eugenia
20-05-2004, 09:04
Marriges don't work. Period.

Awwwww...they can, if the sex life stays healthy.Yes, if you bring other people into the mix... but that's not a conventional marriage.
Chivikistan
20-05-2004, 09:18
Yay, marriage is evil. I feel similarly towards that institution as I do towards capitalism, organised religion, sobriety, and party politics.

Terms need qualification- work? What do we mean by that, in this context?

No, screw it, I can't talk about marriage anymore, I shall start swearing and/or drinking again.
Dhaka
20-05-2004, 09:39
But as for religions... it depends on the religions :)yaa.just think.muslim and jews geting married. :wink:
imported_1248B
20-05-2004, 09:42
My bro is caucasian and his wife colored. I'm caucasian and my gf asian. Works like a charm :)
Dhaka
20-05-2004, 09:46
My bro is caucasian and his wife colored. I'm caucasian and my gf asian. Works like a charm :)Great.Btw i'm asian want caucasian gf.so do you have any sister :wink:
imported_1248B
20-05-2004, 09:51
My bro is caucasian and his wife colored. I'm caucasian and my gf asian. Works like a charm :)Great.Btw i'm asian want caucasian gf.so do you have any sister :wink:

I got a 4 year old niece. :D Who knows? Maybe when she's "all grown up" she'll go for older asian guys. 8)

What is it exactly that makes you want a caucasian gf?
imported_1248B
20-05-2004, 09:57
BTW I thinks race has nothing to do with marriage unless they are racists. So interracial or not... makes no essential difference.
Dhaka
20-05-2004, 09:58
[quote="Dhaka"][quote=1248B]Great.Btw i'm asian want caucasian gf.so do you have any sister :wink:
I got a 4 year old niece. :D Who knows? Maybe when she's "all grown up" she'll go for older asian guys. 8)
What is it exactly that makes you want a caucasian gf?no ofence to asian girls but i think caucasian girl's more open mine'd .spl frm south asian girl's.
Sliders
20-05-2004, 10:03
Well, my best friend's dad is Irish Catholic (though he certainly doesn't practice the religion) and his mom is Vietnamese-French (as in, vietnamese, born in vietnam, then lived most of her life in france) not really sure on the religion there, if any...But they are quite happily married and have been for 20 years.
I am of generic American background- my mom's parents were Irish and Scottish and my dad was adopted, so I don't know about his parents, but they were probably also western European- and agnostic, while my boyfriend is Irish-Vietnamese by nature and American/French by nurture and he's an atheist (for the slower of you, it's the same best friend mentioned above)
so there's some more anecdotal evidence for you! Nothing wrong with interracial couples...
Buzzadonia
20-05-2004, 10:07
I have an interracial marriage and we are both of different religions. We have been together for 14 years and are happy.
I know another couple in the same situation who have been together for 17 years.
In my experience these marriages work.

Do you have any evidence to suggest the opposite is true ?
imported_1248B
20-05-2004, 10:19
no ofence to asian girls but i think caucasian girl's more open mine'd .spl frm south asian girl's.

Oki, I wouldn't know. My gf grew up in Ecuador, educated by the nuns there too, and I'm very much the atheist myself, and next moved to LA. I got no compaints about her not being open. In fact, I find her to be among the most open individuals I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. Maybe the influence of her ecuadorian background? Or maybe just her wonderful character? :)
Groovedom
20-05-2004, 10:26
The only barrier I can see is if both parties were really orthodox... but I can't really see most orthodox folk marrying outside the religion anyway.
Joseph Curwen
20-05-2004, 14:36
I'm Mi'maq, and my wife is Scottish. We've been together for almost 11 years now happily. We're not married because neither of us believe in the institution, and really have no need for it. We love each other regardless of a stupid piece of paper. We have 3 beautiful children whom we are raising to be aware and well versed in both of their cultures (Native and Gaelic), as they represent a bond between my tribe and her clan
I guess with children, it depends upon whether the parents are mature enough to be able to recognize the importance of both cultures that their children represent.
imported_Terra Matsu
20-05-2004, 15:29
I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF INTER RACIAL MARRIAGES WORK...
WHEN TWO PPL FRM TWO DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUP MARRY.

SO DO THEY WORK OR DONT THEY?
WHAT ARE THE PRO'S AND CON'S?
WHAT IF THY ARE FROM DIFFERENT RELIGIONS? :roll:

:!: :?: :arrow:Inter-racial marriages work. I know this for a fact. My sister is hispanic, and is married to a white man. They have a happy marriage. Inter-racial relationships also work. And I'm living proof that (for now anyway) inter-religious relationships work.

My sister is Catholic, my brother-in-law is one of those Christian types, I really donno.
Ydirland
20-05-2004, 15:53
I fail to see a problem with it.
Boolari
20-05-2004, 16:16
Why is this question even being asked...? :shock: Lol.

I am Asian and I've had relationships with Caucasian guys. It definitely 'works.' But the same thing goes for any relationship/marriage regardless of color. Both people still need common ground - similiar experiences - likes/dislikes - expectations - the whole bit. Color is just a perception. We're all of the human species. Dogs don't think "Wow, that bitch (female dog) is hot because she's spotted" or "I can't be friends with that brindle."

Not saying we're dogs or anything... just some random example.
Garaj Mahal
20-05-2004, 17:38
I'm in a "mixed race" marriage and it's just wonderful!!

However, I think we work out because despite being "different races" my wife & I are essentially of the same culture - modern, fully North American in every way. Our parents & families are too.

But if two people are of very different cultures then I think there will be a lot more challenges to overcome - and even love might not be strong enough to make it work. For a start, consider that some highly-traditional cultures will even disown someone for dating/marrying outside that culture. I would sure be hesitant to ever get involved with someone from a cultural background vastly different from my own, no matter how attracted and in-love with them I was.

But some people from very different cutures *do* marry nonetheless, and I deeply admire their commitment and resolve. These are extraordinary people who deserve our respect.
Collaboration
20-05-2004, 17:48
In the city we recently moved from, a niper shot four mixed-race couple over a period of 30 months. Two people died.

The chief of police did nothing. He was white, and his wife had left him for a black man; he hated all interracial couples as a result.

It took the FBI to finally bring the sniper to justice. He was a KKK member.
Garaj Mahal
20-05-2004, 17:56
In the city we recently moved from, a niper shot four mixed-race couple over a period of 30 months. Two people died.

The chief of police did nothing. He was white, and his wife had left him for a black man; he hated all interracial couples as a result.

It took the FBI to finally bring the sniper to justice. He was a KKK member.

Yikes - which city was this?
Hakartopia
20-05-2004, 18:16
All people who get married outside their race are hideous space-aliens from the planet Blobnar!
For that matter, so are people who marry outside their own religion, caste, military rank and love of pineapples.
Lioness Sapplings
20-05-2004, 18:32
All people who get married outside their race are hideous space-aliens from the planet Blobnar!
For that matter, so are people who marry outside their own religion, caste, military rank and love of pineapples.
I can only hope that you are Joking, it only shows what closed minded people can do. Inter-racial marriages are just fine. They all work, granted some have some difficulties, but most can over come peoples reaction to them.
Garaj Mahal
20-05-2004, 18:58
All people who get married outside their race are hideous space-aliens from the planet Blobnar!
For that matter, so are people who marry outside their own religion, caste, military rank and love of pineapples.

I can only hope that you are Joking,

I feel very, very sure he/she was joking - sometimes a great way to critique racism is to show how utterly ridiculous it is :wink:
Collaboration
20-05-2004, 19:01
In the city we recently moved from, a niper shot four mixed-race couple over a period of 30 months. Two people died.

The chief of police did nothing. He was white, and his wife had left him for a black man; he hated all interracial couples as a result.

It took the FBI to finally bring the sniper to justice. He was a KKK member.

Yikes - which city was this?

Johnstown PA, aka "Flood City".
Daistallia 2104
20-05-2004, 19:11
"inter-racial" marriages might be something to consider, if the traditional ideas of race were more than outdated artificial constructs....
Joseph Curwen
20-05-2004, 19:17
All people who get married outside their race are hideous space-aliens from the planet Blobnar!
For that matter, so are people who marry outside their own religion, caste, military rank and love of pineapples.
I can only hope that you are Joking, it only shows what closed minded people can do. Inter-racial marriages are just fine. They all work, granted some have some difficulties, but most can over come peoples reaction to them.

Of course he's not joking, I mean really, there's no way that two people should ever marry if they differ on their opinions on pineapples

Hell anyone that hates pineapples should be jailed for life or until they repent of their unholy ways. Come on now, somethings are just asking way too much..
HotRodia
20-05-2004, 19:19
All people who get married outside their race are hideous space-aliens from the planet Blobnar!
For that matter, so are people who marry outside their own religion, caste, military rank and love of pineapples.
I can only hope that you are Joking, it only shows what closed minded people can do. Inter-racial marriages are just fine. They all work, granted some have some difficulties, but most can over come peoples reaction to them.

Of course he's not joking, I mean really, there's no way that two people should ever marry if they differ on their opinions on pineapples

Hell anyone that hates pineapples should be jailed for life or until they repent of their unholy ways. Come on now, somethings are just asking way too much..

Indeed, a common love of pineapples is the key to a healthy relationship. If you don't have that, what's the point?
Daistallia 2104
20-05-2004, 19:25
:::Looks at picture of Japanese Gf. Considers Scot-Irish/French/Cherokee (1/4) self:::

We both like pineapples.

:::wanders off in search of a ring...:::
Insane Troll
20-05-2004, 19:38
Everybody knows that interracial couples can't have babies, it's like trying to mate a cat and a dog.
Superpower07
20-05-2004, 20:00
Anybody here watch 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'?
Conceptualists
20-05-2004, 20:14
Anybody here watch 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'?

Yeah.

Are you talking about the one where Larry accidently sabotages the wedding?
Superpower07
20-05-2004, 22:11
Anybody here watch 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'?

Yeah.

Are you talking about the one where Larry accidently sabotages the wedding?

Well I don't watch it; all I know is that it has to do with an interracial couple (a jewish guy and a christian woman right?) so i thought it'd be fitting to post about it
Hakartopia
21-05-2004, 06:53
All people who get married outside their race are hideous space-aliens from the planet Blobnar!
For that matter, so are people who marry outside their own religion, caste, military rank and love of pineapples.

I can only hope that you are Joking,

I feel very, very sure he/she was joking - sometimes a great way to critique racism is to show how utterly ridiculous it is :wink:

Well for one thing, if they were indeed aliens from Blobnar, thery'd be of the same race and not inter-race-marry, and thus not be aliens, and then they'd be inter-racing again, and they'd be aliens, and then....

So yeah, people who are serious about this stuff generally do not make much sense.
Filamai
21-05-2004, 07:44
But as for religions... it depends on the religions :)yaa.just think.muslim and jews geting married. :wink:

I've seen that one work.
Soviet Democracy
21-05-2004, 07:45
But as for religions... it depends on the religions :)yaa.just think.muslim and jews geting married. :wink:

I've seen that one work.

What about Satanists and Christians?! :shock:
Rotovia
21-05-2004, 07:59
I'm Catholic and my ex-girlfriend was agnostic.... that was fun
Sliders
21-05-2004, 08:31
All people who get married outside their race are hideous space-aliens from the planet Blobnar!
For that matter, so are people who marry outside their own religion, caste, military rank and love of pineapples.

I can only hope that you are Joking,

I feel very, very sure he/she was joking - sometimes a great way to critique racism is to show how utterly ridiculous it is :wink:

Well for one thing, if they were indeed aliens from Blobnar, thery'd be of the same race and not inter-race-marry, and thus not be aliens, and then they'd be inter-racing again, and they'd be aliens, and then....

So yeah, people who are serious about this stuff generally do not make much sense.
oh, so now all the Blobnarlings are the same? Just like how all the Asians look alike, huh? Racist.
Sheilanagig
21-05-2004, 14:15
The distinction should be drawn between marriages and relationships. I guess my first thought when I see an interracial couple made up of a black man and a white woman in a bar or some such, is, admittedly, that they are very possibly together for mutual status.

Being honest, many black men who date white women do it to have "the Man's" woman on their arm. It's more a form of social protest and showing off to their friends and the world at large that they have a white woman. Many white women who date black men do it so that they can show off to their friends that they have a man who, it is rumored, has a big dick. And it pisses off her folks, more often than not. If and when this is the case behind the relationship, I can't say I approve. I think when it is, they're together for all the wrong reasons.

If a couple made up of a black man and a white woman marries, on the other hand, I see more committment, at least in theory.
Hakartopia
21-05-2004, 15:02
All people who get married outside their race are hideous space-aliens from the planet Blobnar!
For that matter, so are people who marry outside their own religion, caste, military rank and love of pineapples.

I can only hope that you are Joking,

I feel very, very sure he/she was joking - sometimes a great way to critique racism is to show how utterly ridiculous it is :wink:

Well for one thing, if they were indeed aliens from Blobnar, thery'd be of the same race and not inter-race-marry, and thus not be aliens, and then they'd be inter-racing again, and they'd be aliens, and then....

So yeah, people who are serious about this stuff generally do not make much sense.
oh, so now all the Blobnarlings are the same? Just like how all the Asians look alike, huh? Racist.

Liberal! Hippie! Commie!
imported_1248B
21-05-2004, 15:14
Being honest, many black men who date white women do it to have "the Man's" woman on their arm. It's more a form of social protest and showing off to their friends and the world at large that they have a white woman. Many white women who date black men do it so that they can show off to their friends that they have a man who, it is rumored, has a big dick. And it pisses off her folks, more often than not. If and when this is the case behind the relationship, I can't say I approve. I think when it is, they're together for all the wrong reasons.


I seriously hope you are joking...

If not, care to show those surveys?
Nazi Deutschland Axis
21-05-2004, 16:01
Inter-racial Marriages should be outlawed :!:
Garaj Mahal
21-05-2004, 16:51
Being honest, many black men who date white women do it to have "the Man's" woman on their arm. It's more a form of social protest and showing off to their friends and the world at large that they have a white woman. Many white women who date black men do it so that they can show off to their friends that they have a man who, it is rumored, has a big dick. And it pisses off her folks, more often than not. If and when this is the case behind the relationship, I can't say I approve. I think when it is, they're together for all the wrong reasons.

I can't believe you mean this with any seriousness! How many people choose their dates based on such shallow, stupid thinking? And even if they did, you could never base a longterm relationship on that.

When my wife and I first met, we never *once* considered what we looked like to the world or what kind of a "statement" we were making. It was mutual admiration, attraction and love - plain & simple. Why would anybody want to read more into it than that?

It really turns my stomach to imagine that any bystander would mentally cheapen and soil an inter-racial relationship with thoughts like you expressed.
Fuhrer landw
21-05-2004, 17:19
I'm against it..generally the "mixed" offspring become ostracized and must form their own miniority...we got enough of those
Insane Troll
21-05-2004, 17:27
I'm for interracial marriages, but against white trash marriages that result in nazi children.
Sheilanagig
21-05-2004, 17:41
I'm sorry if I offended, but you have to admit that there are such shallow people out there who do indeed date for reasons like that. I've known women who openly admitted it when you asked them, and I've known black men who sometimes would say the same, or would theorize such about the men who did. My statement is not based on surveys, and I'm not talking about the people who aren't so shallow. There are many many couples out there who genuinely care about the other, and what they think and feel, but there are the other type too. Unfortunately, the people out there who care and think and feel seem to sometimes be outnumbered by the people who don't care about anything more than impressing other people who don't matter with things that don't matter.

I never said that I was against it, and I never tried to shuffle around it with, "it's fine, but what about the children."

I guess part of what I was saying might have been that the latest generations aren't doing anything for love or for the right reasons, and you have to suspect that there might be less than respectful reasons on both sides.
Sheilanagig
21-05-2004, 17:44
I actually respect marriage between any two people, provided that they do it with love and honesty and communication.
Garaj Mahal
21-05-2004, 17:44
I'm against it..generally the "mixed" offspring become ostracized and must form their own miniority...we got enough of those

No, eventually the big majority of people in the world will be "mixed" and the "non-mixed" will be the minorities. This will be a great advancement in human evolution as everyone knows hybrids are far stronger/healthier (and better-looking too). Hallellujah to that!
Sheilanagig
21-05-2004, 17:49
I'm against it..generally the "mixed" offspring become ostracized and must form their own miniority...we got enough of those

No, eventually the big majority of people in the world will be "mixed" and the "non-mixed" will be the minorities. This will be a great advancement in human evolution as everyone knows hybrids are far stronger/healthier (and better-looking too). Hallellujah to that!

You almost make it sound as if you believe that different races are actually different species. Almost.
Garaj Mahal
21-05-2004, 18:15
Garaj Mahal
21-05-2004, 18:16
I'm against it..generally the "mixed" offspring become ostracized and must form their own miniority...we got enough of those

No, eventually the big majority of people in the world will be "mixed" and the "non-mixed" will be the minorities. This will be a great advancement in human evolution as everyone knows hybrids are far stronger/healthier (and better-looking too). Hallellujah to that!

You almost make it sound as if you believe that different races are actually different species. Almost.

Hmm...perhaps you're correct that somebody *could* wrongly read that into it. It's never wise to react against shoddy thinking with off-the-cuff flippancy - I should have answered diferently I guess.
Sheilanagig
21-05-2004, 18:22
Look, maybe I'm bringing some prejudice into this. I admit that, and it's because yesterday outside of this forum, IRL, I was reminded again that there are a lot of people out there who just don't care about the other people in this world or about anything beyond the me and the here and now.

I guess my observation is based on the worst of culture, rather than anything at all to do with race, or maybe even with upbringing and having been raised to be a good person versus not having been raised at all, but people who were allowed to grow up with no more upbringing than bad examples and pop culture.

I didn't mean to sound as though I were talking about all or even most. Maybe I should have kept the pessimistic thought to myself in the first place.
Dempublicents
21-05-2004, 18:38
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/05/20/science.dogs.reut/index.html

Funny, when two dogs of different breeds mate, no one says "think of the puppies! No one will want them!" (except maybe snobby breeders) because puppies are puppies. And breeds of dogs are much more different than races of humans.
Sheilanagig
21-05-2004, 18:44
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/05/20/science.dogs.reut/index.html

Funny, when two dogs of different breeds mate, no one says "think of the puppies! No one will want them!" (except maybe snobby breeders) because puppies are puppies. And breeds of dogs are much more different than races of humans.

I'm sorry, but from the time I've spent around dog breeders, many of them have standards which should never be applied to humans. Sometimes it's acceptable to breed a son to a dam, and there are some breeders who believe that if a dog of another breed even unsuccessfully breeds with their purebred bitch, that she is ruined forever because she will retain traces of his semen and possibly throw mongrel puppies.

I just don't believe that the two should be compared. Maybe dogs in their wild form, and even the purebred dogs don't care whether their puppies are one thing or another, so long as they're healthy, but we rely on our social conditioning instead of our instinct. Somehow I believe dogs are happier.
Sliders
21-05-2004, 18:55
I'm sorry if I offended, but you have to admit that there are such shallow people out there who do indeed date for reasons like that. I've known women who openly admitted it when you asked them, and I've known black men who sometimes would say the same, or would theorize such about the men who did. My statement is not based on surveys, and I'm not talking about the people who aren't so shallow. There are many many couples out there who genuinely care about the other, and what they think and feel, but there are the other type too. Unfortunately, the people out there who care and think and feel seem to sometimes be outnumbered by the people who don't care about anything more than impressing other people who don't matter with things that don't matter.

I never said that I was against it, and I never tried to shuffle around it with, "it's fine, but what about the children."

I guess part of what I was saying might have been that the latest generations aren't doing anything for love or for the right reasons, and you have to suspect that there might be less than respectful reasons on both sides.
It sounds like you're saying that you're against all relationships. i mean, it seems very naive to say that same-race couples never become involved for the wrong reasons. In fact- it's just as bad to get into a relationship because your parents would like your partner as to do it because they would hate him/her. I know a lot more intraracial couples that are shallow than the interracial couples I know.
I guess you never said your problem was only with interracial couples, but since that's what the topic is about...I can see how someone would construe it to be your meaning anyway
Sheilanagig
21-05-2004, 19:02
For all intents and purposes, I think everyone might agree that the subject is a barrel of fishhooks anyway. Anything you say, and the way you say it, can be taken the wrong way. Especially when you don't really make yourself clear about what you're saying.

Mea Culpa on all counts.
Dempublicents
21-05-2004, 19:27
I just don't believe that the two should be compared. Maybe dogs in their wild form, and even the purebred dogs don't care whether their puppies are one thing or another, so long as they're healthy, but we rely on our social conditioning instead of our instinct. Somehow I believe dogs are happier.

I wasn't trying to make a direct comparison. HUMOR PEOPLE! LOL

Anyways, the point I was making is that the genetic differences between races are much less pronounced than those between dog breeds and there is no physical problem with two breeds intermingling. In fact, mutts tend to be much healthier animals.
Sheilanagig
21-05-2004, 19:35
Sorry, insomniac midnight shifter, at your service. The thing I was trying to point out was that dogs don't care, ever. People do. It's people who care which dogs breed to each other and which people marry each other. It's all about racial purity and sex to people, to dogs, it's a matter of not having any choice, that bitch is in heat. ;)

I guess that's what really is being discussed here is the artificial concept of racism and hatred that was created by our founding fathers in this country, at least. What happens if they have children and one day we can't create division that way? What if you can't tell the difference, and you have to find a way to pit one kind of brown people against another, because there is no black or white anymore?

It's all about maintaining the status quo. My initial statement was based on the fact that most people in this country have been exposed to the brainwashing they're supposed to have, and they never look any further than that, let alone to the fact that it's a person and not an object being discussed, or crossbreeding strategies.
Sheilanagig
21-05-2004, 19:42
If you ever get close to a human
And human behaviour
Be ready to get confused
There's definitely no logic
To human behaviour
But yet so irristible
There's no map
To human behaviour
They're terribly moody
Then all of a sudden turn happy
But, oh, to get involved in the exchange
Of human emotions is ever so satisfying
There's no map
And a compass
Wouldn't help at all
Human behaviour


And with that I leave you.
Baclumi
21-05-2004, 23:42
God himself is for inter racial marriages, in Numbers 12, Aaron and Miriam spoke out against Moses because he married an ethiopian woman. And God got so mad that he struck them with leprosy. Yeah, i think God takes the subject pretty seriously.
Sheilanagig
22-05-2004, 08:44
God himself is for inter racial marriages, in Numbers 12, Aaron and Miriam spoke out against Moses because he married an ethiopian woman. And God got so mad that he struck them with leprosy. Yeah, i think God takes the subject pretty seriously.

No, Baclumi, I think if you read that without trying to interpret it according to your own agenda, you'd find that it was about marrying someone outside his own religion, and that Aaron and Miriam were alarmed that he was turning into a drunk.

Also, if you think the old testament is all about telling us what rightiousness is, look up the story of Lot. "NO! Don't rape my visitors, that would be bad hospitality...Here. Have my two daughters instead, they're virgins." or later on, "Hey, let's get dad drunk so that we can sleep with him and get pregnant."

Noice. And Lot was the ONE rightious man they could find. Says something, doesn't it?
Runica
22-05-2004, 10:46
It shoudl work as long as neither of them are racist.
imported_Celeborne
22-05-2004, 10:56
God himself is for inter racial marriages, in Numbers 12, Aaron and Miriam spoke out against Moses because he married an ethiopian woman. And God got so mad that he struck them with leprosy. Yeah, i think God takes the subject pretty seriously.

No, Baclumi, I think if you read that without trying to interpret it according to your own agenda, you'd find that it was about marrying someone outside his own religion, and that Aaron and Miriam were alarmed that he was turning into a drunk.

Also, if you think the old testament is all about telling us what rightiousness is, look up the story of Lot. "NO! Don't rape my visitors, that would be bad hospitality...Here. Have my two daughters instead, they're virgins." or later on, "Hey, let's get dad drunk so that we can sleep with him and get pregnant."

Noice. And Lot was the ONE rightious man they could find. Says something, doesn't it?

In fact Baclumi is correct. The passage goes like this :

1 Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite. 2 "Has the LORD spoken only through Moses?" they asked. "Hasn't he also spoken through us?" And the LORD heard this.
3 (Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)
4 At once the LORD said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, "Come out to the Tent of Meeting, all three of you." So the three of them came out. 5 Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the entrance to the Tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When both of them stepped forward, 6 he said, "Listen to my words:

"When a prophet of the LORD is among you,
I reveal myself to him in visions,
I speak to him in dreams.
7 But this is not true of my servant Moses;
he is faithful in all my house.
8 With him I speak face to face,
clearly and not in riddles;
he sees the form of the LORD .
Why then were you not afraid
to speak against my servant Moses?"

9 The anger of the LORD burned against them, and he left them.
10 When the cloud lifted from above the Tent, there stood Miriam-leprous, [1] like snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had leprosy; 11 and he said to Moses, "Please, my lord, do not hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed. 12 Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother's womb with its flesh half eaten away."
13 So Moses cried out to the LORD , "O God, please heal her!"
14 The LORD replied to Moses, "If her father had spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp for seven days; after that she can be brought back." 15 So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on till she was brought back.
16 After that, the people left Hazeroth and encamped in the Desert of Paran.

There you have it. God is not against inter-racial marriage, he is against messing with his prophets.
Dragoneia
22-05-2004, 11:02
My friends step Dad is black and they dont look like devorce will ever be on the table i mean they got a nice house a pool ect. My Dad is catholic and my mom is something else another form of cristianity but i cant remember right now...to early to think...must..find...cafine :lol:
Catholic Europe
22-05-2004, 11:30
Yes, mixed-race relationships do work. My Aunty has been with a black guy for the last 20 years. I have a black girlfriend. My cousin has a black boyfriend. They are all perfectly fine and they do work.
imported_Celeborne
22-05-2004, 11:31
I have a Cuban girl friend and everything is great.
My ex-wife and I were of the same race....not so good.
Catholic Europe
22-05-2004, 11:31
I have a Cuban girl friend and everything is great.
My ex-wife and I were of the same race....not so good.

Is the cuban white, black or hispanic?
imported_Celeborne
22-05-2004, 11:36
Hispanic.
Catholic Europe
22-05-2004, 14:45
Hispanic.

Okay. Wicked!
Sheilanagig
22-05-2004, 16:22
I just really hate it when people use the bible to forward their own agenda. If you want to, you can make that book say anything you want. Besides, I'm sure God resents anyone presuming to speak for him directly.
Tenete Traditiones
22-05-2004, 22:26
To commit to an inter-racial marriage is to betray one's own heritage and bloodline. Of course I am staunchly Traditionalist Roman Catholic, however religion need not be involved in such a grave matter. For a White to marry outside the White race, is to betray the diverse-enough people they were born into. No more different-colored eyes or a rainbow of hair colors. The end of diversity! Asians in Asia and Africans in Africa aren't faced with this problem so why must we be bombarded with inter-racial marriages in America and Europe by these people. It is a matter of having pride in who you are. Let the races stay amongst themselves!
Colodia
22-05-2004, 22:28
To commit to an inter-racial marriage is to betray one's own heritage and bloodline. Of course I am staunchly Traditionalist Roman Catholic, however religion need not be involved in such a grave matter. For a White to marry outside the White race, is to betray the diverse-enough people they were born into. No more different-colored eyes or a rainbow of hair colors. The end of diversity! Asians in Asia and Africans in Africa aren't faced with this problem so why must we be bombarded with inter-racial marriages in America and Europe by these people. It is a matter of having pride in who you are. Let the races stay amongst themselves!

Okay...what is you have a mixed race BY genetics that go back a couple hundred years? Should I continue mixing races or find someone else who happens to be Colombian/Indian/Greek/Burmese?
SilverCities
22-05-2004, 23:15
SilverCities
22-05-2004, 23:17
Hmmm... interracial relationships, I am the product of such a marriage, (black/white) and my parents got on fine until my Dad couldn't keep it in his pants and they divorced... :lol:

I will soon be married to an Englishman, our relationship is just peachy, can't wait to settle down and go all domestic... I dont see any problems cropping up at all... it all comes down to the individuals involved, nothing is ever garunteed no matter what race or nationality the persons are....
Tenete Traditiones
23-05-2004, 00:34
To commit to an inter-racial marriage is to betray one's own heritage and bloodline. Of course I am staunchly Traditionalist Roman Catholic, however religion need not be involved in such a grave matter. For a White to marry outside the White race, is to betray the diverse-enough people they were born into. No more different-colored eyes or a rainbow of hair colors. The end of diversity! Asians in Asia and Africans in Africa aren't faced with this problem so why must we be bombarded with inter-racial marriages in America and Europe by these people. It is a matter of having pride in who you are. Let the races stay amongst themselves!

Okay...what is you have a mixed race BY genetics that go back a couple hundred years? Should I continue mixing races or find someone else who happens to be Colombian/Indian/Greek/Burmese?

One mestizo from the 18th century is not the same as having a somalian for a father.
If your second question is referring to yourself, its not very specific. By Columbian, do you mean a White Latino or mestizo. Are you an Amerind or an Indian from India?
You should find someone who is not White. Everyone else is multiplying like roaches so it doesn't matter who you choose. Just stop endangering the worlds' minority even more.