there is tremendous learning opportunities here, and good for honing people skills, and ruling out friendship and relationship misconceptions and stereotypes, as well as gaining wisdom toward better relations with all types of people, from all walks of life, with new respect and insight you might not see any place else...

hmm
For the most still frowned upon.
I really don't care as long as we have things in common.
Its only been 200 yrs lots of hurdles to go.

MirrorMirror will date any race except reptilians.

((( SexyTime)))

Well shoot, where are you women? Guess I need to move to Louisiana then, here in Denver it's a double standard. Most black men hook up with white women but few black women hook up with white men.

yesssss ive dated outside my raceeee. *rolls eyes*

It's like that everywhere, white women with black men, but rarely the opposite. Where I live now if you see a black man with a black woman, it's a huge surprise and you wonder if she's his sister.

... Well since the space ship abandoned me here and all ...

I date the human race ... and I make 'em to be 2009 AD and gaining ...

But I'm more an amateur archeologist cum anthropologist ...



BESIDES ...

In this world of Heinz 57 mutts???

... The ONLY way to actually date wholly w/in one's own race, would be to date a sibling ...














Streuth

Well perhaps the question should be, do you prefer to date people of your own skin color since so many people take offense to the term "race" and try to make a big deal of "we're all the same, we're the human race." I wonder would that make the answers any different? Or would we still get the same generic, politically correct responses?

Think your question comes closer.

Think also what you consider a generic answer, is really some folks truth.

But, I agree ... some hide behind these veiled cookie cutter answers.

Another way to query might be to ask of the various branches of tribes.

Feel as if I've almost sampled EVERY tribe on the global menu ...

I think you correct in some aspect. But I think race and culture are very much a like and I think that is where the differences are. I should have said dated outside your culture. But this was the easiest way to get my point across. I'm not only multiracial but multicultural as well. Maybe that is where the most diffulties lie.

I agree that to some people it's not an issue, I used to know people like that when I lived in other places, but it's become the "in thing" to say, "ohhh I'm not racist, it's about what someone is like on the inside, not the outside, we're all human, blah blah" and then they make light of it and say "we're all people, not aliens, har har." When they know full well they're not willing or able to do anything like that, either because of their own beliefs, family, friends, or the area where they are. So it gets old.

But like I said in an earlier post, to each his/her own, interracial dating can be a pain the a$$ depending on where you live, but if some people think the other person is worth it, more power to them.

Yes, culture can be interesting. Right now I'm living in Wes Virginia, and as far as I'm concerned, they all share the same culture- black, white, whatever, because they think pretty much the same, and they have shared values. So that can be interesting....

However, you shouldn't base your decisions on what other people think. If you and someone else decide you like each other, that's all that's important, you're an adult, and you can do what you want. Just keep yourself safe, because in some areas, racist people will try to hurt interracial couples because of their hatred. Good luck in whatever you decide to do.

I truly meant it when I said I feel we are a ALL a huge mixing bowl of cultures, races, tribes, ethnicities, whateva we call it!

I'm from the south, where I TRULY believe there are SO many skeletons in the closet leftover from the slave years.

Any families on that ground for a couple or few centuries??? C'mon, every black OR white "appearing" family has some of the other in their bloodline, though the secret was muffled all those years ago! My belief anyway!

My daughter is half Native American and LOOKS completely Anglo~Saxon ...

Appearances have pulled off many an illusion ... look at old Hollywood ...

And, Calliegh, I SO hear ya!!!

... I loved my years living in London. There were SO many mixed marriages w/ mixed offspring. It was so "normal" there...

...NOT the primitive separatists notions I'd been so repulsed by in my childhood in the South ... WHAT a bad trip that was! ... ....

I don't date black guys either

Calleigh, just an innocent fair question for you. Regarding a white man with a black woman, what do you do if one or both sets of parents have a racial bias? And the couple is very much in love and comfortable with each other. I had a relationship with a black woman several years ago, but it only lasted 3 months because her father didn't approve of my skin pigment deficiency. Tried to tell him it was vitiligo, but he wasn't buyin' it. Oh well. Didn't really have vitiligo that was a joke.

Saw a program today about our genetic past. Turns out every single human being alive can trace their ancestry back to the same 2 genetic ancestors about 75,000 years ago. Makes a mockery of 'race' really.

Black, white or any other skintone, what matters is the person underneath.

... ... Tell it!

Cue ... the MJ ...

Next time find a woman who doesn't need her daddy's approval to be happy and you might have better results. Good luck with that.