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Kino Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Californicating
#1: Apr 13th 2011 at 9:09:18 PM

Somebody brought it up in this thread (end of post 277 onwards), and I wanted to know what everyone else thought about the issue. Does it offend you, does it make you wonder, or do you just not give a shit?

edited 13th Apr '11 9:10:11 PM by Kino

DrunkFloridian Since: Dec, 1969
#2: Apr 13th 2011 at 9:11:18 PM

Interracial dating is perfectly fine. I'm white and have three black in-laws, and I'm completely cool with that. Anyone who isn't can get lovingly swathed in barbed wire and shot into the sun, as far as I'm concerned.

DrunkGirlfriend from Castle Geekhaven Since: Jan, 2011
#3: Apr 13th 2011 at 9:12:15 PM

I don't care, really. I've dated outside my race before. Granted, it was the same reason why I dated most of my boyfriends.

To get them to shut up and leave me alone.

"I don't know how I do it. I'm like the Mr. Bean of sex." -Drunkscriblerian
Rottweiler Dog and Pony Show from Portland, Oregon Since: Dec, 2009
Dog and Pony Show
#4: Apr 13th 2011 at 9:16:36 PM

If interracial love was good enough for Moses, it's good enough for me. tongue

“Love is the eternal law whereby the universe was created and is ruled.” — St. Bernard
Blurring One just might from one hill away to the regular Bigfoot jungle. Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
One just might
#5: Apr 13th 2011 at 9:18:51 PM

I don't care, we are all humans, no matter what the ethnic groups are. In fact, humans should get to know each other better.

edited 13th Apr '11 9:20:33 PM by Blurring

If a chicken crosses the road and nobody else is around to see it, does the road move beneath the chicken instead?
Usht Lv. 3 Genasi Wizard from an arbitrary view point. Since: Feb, 2011
Lv. 3 Genasi Wizard
#6: Apr 13th 2011 at 9:19:21 PM

Don't give a damn, I'll date a person if I like them.

The thing about making witty signature lines is that it first needs to actually be witty.
TheDeadMansLife Lover of masks. Since: Nov, 2009
Lover of masks.
#7: Apr 13th 2011 at 9:26:41 PM

I hate my race so interracial is a okay in my book.

Please.
MarkVonLewis Since: Jun, 2010
#8: Apr 13th 2011 at 9:28:05 PM

I don't really give a damn. I say let people bang whomever they want.

Bur Chaotic Neutral from Flyover Country Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Not war
#9: Apr 13th 2011 at 9:30:58 PM

I still tend to do a double-take, though less often than I used to, but I have no problems with it. Besides, mixed-race kids are adorable. There's just something about the blending of ethnic features...

i. hear. a. sound.
Ultrayellow Unchanging Avatar. Since: Dec, 2010
Unchanging Avatar.
#10: Apr 13th 2011 at 9:32:17 PM

Who cares?

Except for 4/1/2011. That day lingers in my memory like...metaphor here...I should go.
OnTheOtherHandle Since: Feb, 2010
#11: Apr 13th 2011 at 9:34:01 PM

I'd honestly be very surprised if a forum like this had any problem with interracial dating. Tropers as a whole tend to be rather socially liberal, even if some of them might be economically conservative. Anyway, yeah, I don't give a crap. And it's not even in a "It grosses me out, but they have right to do it" kind of way, like it is with incest. It's in the "I genuinely was never bothered by it" kind of way. The cutest couple I know consists of a Chinese girl and a Caucasian guy.

"War doesn't prove who's right, only who's left." "Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future."
Carciofus Is that cake frosting? from Alpha Tucanae I Since: May, 2010
Is that cake frosting?
#12: Apr 13th 2011 at 10:07:40 PM

Not an issue.

Intercultural dating, now, that can be problematic. It is not a bad thing in any sense of the world, of course; but dating someone who comes from a very different culture than you carries its own set of potential pitfalls, in addition to those that any relationship has.

Not saying that it cannot be done, or that it cannot be done well; just saying that cultural differences in a couple can be a rather delicate matter.

edited 13th Apr '11 10:08:01 PM by Carciofus

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#13: Apr 13th 2011 at 10:08:14 PM

Don't mind at all, more power to 'em. Good to see people figure out that love is more fun than being douchebags to each other. [lol]

Rottweiler Dog and Pony Show from Portland, Oregon Since: Dec, 2009
Dog and Pony Show
#14: Apr 13th 2011 at 10:13:50 PM

Tropers as a whole tend to be rather socially liberal,

>Implying I'd have a problem with interracial love

“Love is the eternal law whereby the universe was created and is ruled.” — St. Bernard
DrunkGirlfriend from Castle Geekhaven Since: Jan, 2011
#15: Apr 13th 2011 at 10:20:40 PM

Rott, when most people say they're traditionalists, they're generally not going back to the times before Christianity. You're so traditional, you wrapped around into liberal again.

edited 13th Apr '11 10:21:05 PM by DrunkGirlfriend

"I don't know how I do it. I'm like the Mr. Bean of sex." -Drunkscriblerian
Aondeug Oh My from Our Dreams Since: Jun, 2009
Oh My
#16: Apr 13th 2011 at 10:31:15 PM

Don't give a shit.

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
kashchei Since: May, 2010
#17: Apr 13th 2011 at 10:59:37 PM

"I hate my race so interracial is a okay in my book."

That's racist.

And better than thy stroke; why swellest thou then?
TheDeadMansLife Lover of masks. Since: Nov, 2009
Lover of masks.
#18: Apr 13th 2011 at 11:06:28 PM

Yes. All others above my own.

Please.
melloncollie Since: Feb, 2012
#19: Apr 13th 2011 at 11:07:58 PM

I'm in one, so I guess I'm ok with it.

Dunno if I could date a traditionalist Chinese, Korean, or Japanese person though. From what I've heard of their cultures, I wouldn't be very compatible.

Carciofus Is that cake frosting? from Alpha Tucanae I Since: May, 2010
Is that cake frosting?
#20: Apr 13th 2011 at 11:10:51 PM

^^ If you truly hate your "race", whatever that even means, should you not be against you marrying people of other ethnicities and "contaminate their bloodlines"? ;)

Just saying ;)

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
TheDeadMansLife Lover of masks. Since: Nov, 2009
Lover of masks.
#21: Apr 13th 2011 at 11:13:13 PM

I want kids someday. It is true I am just worsening things if I breed outside my race. I am truly scum.tongue

But I really hate my race cause they are so goddamn stereotypical. So so stereotypical.

edited 13th Apr '11 11:14:27 PM by TheDeadMansLife

Please.
MRDA1981 Tyrannicidal Maniac from Hell (London), UK. Since: Feb, 2011
Tyrannicidal Maniac
#22: Apr 13th 2011 at 11:42:55 PM

Who gives a fuck? Take love/lust/friendship wherever you find it. Screw identity politics.

If someone wants to just date ther own, that's fine too, as long as they shut the fuck up about those who don't—et vice versa.

Enjoy the Inferno...
LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#23: Apr 14th 2011 at 12:47:49 AM

Sometimes it's a bit of a surpise when someone you know fairly well talks about their spouse a lot, and you picture them as being the same race, and then you meet them and it turns out they're not. It's not a bad thing though, it's more a 'oh, you don't match up to my mental picture. Oh well.'

I have no problem with it.

Be not afraid...
KCK Can I KCK it? from In your closet Since: Jul, 2010
Can I KCK it?
#24: Apr 14th 2011 at 12:54:49 AM

Believe it or not, I don't have a problem with interracial dating. What I do have a problem with is racial stereotypes influencing dating decisions.

There's no justice in the world and there never was~
Kayeka from Amsterdam (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#25: Apr 14th 2011 at 1:03:10 AM

There's not much of a discussion to be had here, eh? Oh well. For the record: Interracial dating is perfectly fine and normal. No questions to be asked, no looks to be given, no judgement to be dealt. In this day and age, there isn't that much difference between races any more anyway.


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