What do you guys think about interacial dating...?

[Harleyq]

I've never been in a relationship but I prefer the idea of interracial dating, it's so much more interesting to learn about different cultures.

People always seem to try to pair you up with those of your own race though.

That's because people are naturally more attracted to others who look like them. Even in platonic relationships, people tend to group with their own races. I think it's a part of human nature (survival instinct or what have you) to want to associate with people who you perceive to be like you.

I notice it around my university campus and both my home town and my college town. I don't think there are many people who are racist at all, and of course there's some interracial mingling, but for the most part, black people tend to be in groups with other blacks, whites are in groups with other whites, etc. It doesn't mean they wouldn't openly invite someone of another race to join them, but they just tend to go off with people who look like them.

Some people think it's sad but personally, I'm pretty indifferent. As long as people don't separate into groups as a result of hate, then my attitude is "eh...it happens."

 

[limetree]

Oh I know, I was just referring to how whenever people casually gossip about who should hook up with who, they always pair people up racially. It's just a minor annoyance when those people aren't even friends but the immediate categorisation is focused on ethnic pairings. Maybe you don't view it as such, but it subtly, even unintentionally discourages interracial dating as a social norm, not a moral/equality issue.

One of my closest friends was asian but I was actually more paranoid that people would take our friendship for ethnic familiarity when it was primarily her introversion and loyalty that felt familiar. A hyperactive, party-going asian would feel more foreign than a more subdued black person for example. Unconsciously, sure, ethnic familiarity might play a part but there are other often overriding variables which make me prefer to view people primarily as individuals. It's not racist but if you feel like challenging your own notions of familiarity, human nature doesn't have to be static either.

 

[Mikefly]

It's fine. I've dated a couple asian girls and i'm caucasion I never really thought about it too much when we went out.

 

[taint]

I've had 2 relations that fizzled out before they got anywhere, both with white girls. (I am white).
Now, I am in a relation with a black girl & it already has gone further than ever.



Racially, just a coincidence? I don't know...

 

[chained]

giiiiirl, i love me some dark eyes! haha.. i've always drifted towards men with dark hair and dark eyes, and i love brown eyed women! i have blue eyes, but actually have some brown contacts, lol.. they make my eyes look bigger and more round.. that's why i love brown eyes, so beautiful!

I guess opposites attract.. I have greenish- blue eyes and love darker men!!!!! and u shouldn't wear brown contacts.. women with brown eyes would kill for blue ones.. but I guess that's just the way it is..