Is love really colorblind? Colorblind enough to agree with interracial
marriage? According to author Steve Sailer, it would depend on who you
were talking to.
Black men, Asian women, and white men and women do not seem to have
a real problem with it. There are two groups, however that srtongly disagree
with it.
These are Asian men and black women. One of the things this article
talks about is their anger over white women and white men marrying Asian
women and
black men. Their reason is that this is making the opposite sex less
availale to them.
Also in this article are possible explanations why different ethnic
backgrounds would want to intermarry. Several of them are that men tend
to be more attracted
to light skinned, long haired women (generally white or Asian women),
women tend to look for the strong, masculine type (primarily white and
black men), and
opposites attract. There are also number presented that show a relationship
between body fat percentages.
All in all this article was very interesting and definately made clear
the preferred point of view which was that intermarrying was not the best
idea. This article is
not saying that there should not be interracial marriages, only that
intermarrying can cause some difficulty between an already racial stressed
people.
I chose this article because at one point in time I asked my dad what
he thought of me marrying someone with a different ethnic background then
me. He did not
think it was a good idea because it would create too many problems.
I wanted to see what others thought and this article just happened to come
my way.
Five questions I had:
1. Don't you think that if two people of different ethnic backgrounds are really in love, their differences won't matter and they will be able to work anything out?
2. What if intermarrying really isn't a good idea because their differences will overwhelm any chance of a happy marriage?
3. Has anyone had an ethnically mixed marriage where everything has just fallen into place and things run smoothly?
4. Do ethnically mixed marriages last on a whole longer or shorter than same background marriages?
5. Has anyone had an experience with dating a person of a different
ethnic background and the parents were very unhappy about the situation?
If so, did
everything turn out alright and how were you able to make things better?
Submited by Christine Kay John