Yahoo reports interracial relationships are on the rise

The United States prides itself on being a melting pot of cultures. In light of current events, it’d be naive to say that the contents of the pot has seamlessly mixed together, but there’s one statistic suggesting a positive uptick in one part of life: personal relationships. A recent study revealed that fifteen percent of newlyweds are in an interracial relationship—or 8.4 percent marriages overall—a marked increase since 1960 when only 0.4 percent of marriages were multi racial.


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Of course, these statistics aren’t totally shocking when you consider what’s happened over the past 50 years. Interracial marriage was only decriminalized in most states in 1967 (although Alabama didn’t officially legalize it until 2000), and even then, 41% of voters were against it. Alabama might not have actively enforced the law, but the fact that it took them this long to overturn it says a lot about people’s prevalent feelings about race and relationships, especially in small towns and states with a history of segregation and tense race relations. Interracial marriages and relationships might be more common than ever, but does it mean we’re living in a post-racial America?





The answer is yes and no, although probably mostly no. Interracial dating is much more common for young people in urban areas, like New York City, where you meet and interact with a variety of people from all around the world. Attitudes toward these relationships are not the same across the board, and vary based on the ethnic makeup of the couple. For example, the same study found that Asian women tend to marry white men more often than the other way around. “I’ve never had any experiences that made me really think about the fact that my relationship is ‘bi-racial’,” says John Refano, a 34-year-old New York-based web developer. “It might be a sort of cultural bias since I am a white male and my partner is an Asian woman, and maybe our particular ‘mix’ is now quite common.”


Estelle Tang, a 31-year-old Chinese literary scout who also lives in New York City had similar feelings, “We’ve never really had any issues unless we leave the country,” she says, of her relationship with Sam, a 30-year-old white lawyer. “We went to Thailand once and got a lot of catcalls and we got stared at a lot, although obviously Thai people have a reason to be suspicious of white guys with Asian girls, given the sex trade in certain cities there.” At home, Tang acknowledges that there “isn’t really much stigma around Asian girls going out with white guys,” but that the same is not true for Asian men: “I have a friend who is an Asian guy who is convinced white girls aren’t into him because of his race.”





The same cannot be said of people in other races, Genesis Whitlock, who is black and works for a hedge fund, face many “curious glances” on the subway when she and her partner, a white lawyer, hold hands or kiss on the subway. “He does get the side eye from black people age his age or older,” Whitlock says. “Never any words, but the glares are obvious.” Whitlock and her partner are in the minority of multiracial relationships, as only 9 percent of black women marry outside of their race, versus 24 percent of black males. “Once, we were at dinner and he kissed me before going to the bathroom,” Whitlock recalls, “Three women—two black, one white—stopped me on their way out and asked, ‘How did you guys end up together?’ I was initially insulted, but they seemed genuinely surprised and explained they never see ‘our kind of interracial couple’ where they live. One of the black women even added ‘I wish I could find a white guy!’ and it made me realize that I have a certain amount of privilege, I guess, living in a large multicultural city.”

Reported by Yahoo news.


Wow Alabama didn't legalize interracial relations:freehug: until 2000 I guess I would have been a dead mofo a long time ago if lived there..That is fucking sad!:smt009

 

And once again they leave out bm and ww even though we are the faces of this shit and the vast majority of bias surrounding this shit is directed at us. No one else has a history of lynching based on who they couple with or even show the slightest interest.
And my God I am seriously tired of hearing bw talk about the glances they get when dating wm. Real talk no one gives a fuck. Ww have all the options in the world and bm are very ok with dating other types of people so who the hell really cares?

 

Haha

It's truth tho

White men aren't oppressed and can generally get away with much more, because as a group they wield the most power and influence..but u already know this

Yahoo fails once more

I bet the comments are tame compared to an article featuring black men stealing white women lol

 

Maybe that'll be the new trend. If you want to stop racism just take bm out of the conversation altogether lol

 

There you two go again, playing the race card. Lol

 

Call it what you want but look at porn

A white guy screws an asian girl...it's called asian porn

A white guy screws a black chick...it's called ebony porn

White guy screws latina....it's called latina porn

Black guy screws any of the above except a black chick and it's called 'interracial' porn

Let that think on your head for a minute

 

"Interracial" pretty much means "black man screwing...X"

 

This shit is subtle.....but trust me I see it

 

I think it's also because the supposed racial characteristics of the black male are on display as part of the movie. That's why I still think the bulk of interracial porn is directed at white men's fetishes.

 

INTERRACE magazine is definitely needed now more than ever to set the record straight. Why hasn't that online publication stepped forward? Bm married to ww is just as common as wm with Aw or L/Hw. If Kerry Washington can be on a show where she can romance a white man, what is wrong with a black man doing the same? A Latino/Hispanic male can do it. Even an Asian male can do it. Are black men that forbidden? What is so frightening about us? Is it that black men have a power that we have yet to realized, but others outside know about and obstacles are put in place to hold him down? If that is so, then black men have to look beyond the ports and entertainment fields to prosper in this world in order to develop this power everyone seems to fear that we might have or will get sooner or later.

 

Aww shit now we turned gorath into a militant

 

Not militant. Passionate. If I posted a picture of me with a gun in my hand, then I've become an extremist. There is so much talk about equal rights from both sides of the socio-philosophical spectrum, but what people from both sides are really talking about is rights for themselves(a prison inmate named Costello sued to have better food and other things for himself, but he ended up getting it for all inmates). I AM A MAN. A HUMAN BEING. I AM SOMETHING THE LORD MADE AS WELL AS EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING ELSE ON THIS PLANET EARTH. I AM NOT AN ANIMAL. I AM NOT A MONSTER. I AM NOT AN OFFSPRING OF SATAN.

I am just one man. A speck of dust adrift in God's universe because that is where we as human's will begin and end.

 

the article states bm marry IR more so than bw

 

...and once again you didn't bother to read the article. Black men in interracial relationships was mentioned. Stop making everything about you bro. BM/WW may be the focus of this particular site, but the overall message of understanding of bi-racial relationships relates to the situations everyone that dates outside of their own races face.

 

There's no first person account taken like they did with the Asian woman, black woman and white male. And like I said black men and white women are the faces of this shit and it's interesting how neither are given any mention outside of 24 percent of bm date outside of their race.
It's barely a similar experience for all because we as interracial couples face a harsher climate and much heavier stigmas. No one white woman is at home crying trying to convince anyone that Asian and black women are taking all their good men. Black and Asian men aren't seething at the idea of a white guy with black and Asian women. People don't lose their fucking minds at the very sight of them together ie the Cheerios commercial from a few years back. Sorry to burst your little happy bubble but that shit is different.

 

That boy don't take no shit

 

theres no first person account of latino , indian and muslim men....

who gives a fuck?
dudes all ways wanna pull out the victim measuring stick.

dudes didnt have major butt hurts when article came out over who get chosen up for IR

smh

 

Learn to read Goodlove, learn reading comprehension

BLACK AND WHITE WOMEN ARE THE FACES OF INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS YET NEITHER ARE ASKED ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES DATING OUTSIDE OF THEIR RACE. NO MENTION HOW IT EFFECTS THEM.

 

again, dont give a fuck.....u guys wasnt overly butt hurt on the chosen up IR article.

dudes gonna find reasons to get butt hurt.

 

Have no clue what you're talking about and could care less if you approve. But don't play this bitch game where you try to call people out for being insensitive when it's a valid critique especially for a man who claims to "date" white women. You don't see a problem with an article about interracial dating where you black and white women are left out of the conversation?