I find this a very interesting topic. I have friends of all different races, and also have a lot of girl-friends!
Now, I wouldn't mind dating some of them, but the more friends of different races I've made, the more I have noticed this issue! See, I have no issue with it, my ex was mixed race, and I find girls of all races attractive!
I find that people nowadays are quite happy to mix with people of different races, even if a lot of social groups are of the same race.
But dating, thats seems to be very non-existent. People I know only seem to date their own race. A few black girls I know, they seem not to notice white guys who may like them. One of my friends said she purely does not notice white guys, she looks straight past them at the first black guy.
2 of my best friends, both of the black, do much the same. I was talking to them on the bus about if they had found any nice black guys, and they'd said no. One even said she liked black guys with no ambition who are thuggish. Almost accept a lower standard of guy just because he was the same skin colour.
I find it amazing, it's like the thought didn't even cross their mind to date a guy of another skin colour. My head was screaming ask them if they would consider white guys!
A lot of people say they would date other races, but in reality never would. It's amazing that people let skin colour affect who they love, love shouldn't have constaints!
It seems in nowadays society, a lot of people are happy to settle for a lower quality partner, someone they don't even love, just because they share the same skin colour!

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Would you date a person of another race?

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well personaly it does not matter what race someone is. Only if they are someone who is beautiful on the inside. I am white and my boyfriend is Mexican (actually born in Mexico) and I don't notice the differance. When I look at him I don't see tan skin I just see the man I'm in love with. We are to have a daughter in July and she will be mixed race and if one day she comes to me and says mommy I want to marry this Chinese man or Black man I will be perfectly fine with it. Color means nothing to me.....

I don't have anything against mixed race dating. Personally, I think it's wonderful being with someone who's so totally different from you because you can be exposed to so much more. It doesn't really matter what my boyfriend's skin color is because hey, it's just color. It doesn't define who you are. I think guys from other races are exceptionally handsome & totally boyfriend material.

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Originally posted by ERIK213213:
WHITE PEOPLE DIDNT STEAL AFRO AMERICANS...WE BOUGHT THEM WHOLESALE...SO WHITE PEOPLE STOP FEELING SORRY FOR THESE AFRO AMERICANS...

Whoa whoa whoa! No need to be harsh.
We all know that Africans were the ones that sold their own people to Europeans, but that didn't give these Europeans the right to mistreat these 'bought' beings. The Africans that were sold off to the bunch of heartless white people didn't ask to be taken away from their home country...you'd think a decent human being would have taken pity on these people instead of BUYING them.

Back to the whole interacial relationship deal, I believe it isn't that big of a deal. People can fall in love with whoever they darn well please...no matter what their ethnic backgrounds. As a matter of fact, I believe mixed race relationships are the richest kinds of relationships. Heaven knows they're the most INTERESTING.

WHITE PEOPLE DIDNT STEAL AFRO AMERICANS...WE BOUGHT THEM WHOLESALE...AFRICANS SOLD THEM TO US .........WE DIDNT STORM THEIR BEACHS OR GO TO WAR WITH AFRICA...THEIR OWN PEOPLE ROUNDED EM UP LIKE GOATS OR CHICKENS..RAPED THEIR WOMEN,BURNT DOWN THEIR VILLAGES...THEN SOLD THEM TO ANOTHER RACE...AFRICANS CONTINUE TODAY TO DESTROY AND ENSLAVE OTHER AFRICANS....NOT THE EVIL WHITE MAN.....SO WHITE PEOPLE STOP FEELING SORRY FOR THESE AFRO AMERICANS.....

My mom mixed but for some reason she never has wanted me to date a person from another race.I guess she saw how hard it was for her mom and didn't want that for me.But, what people have to understand that attraction is attraction and they shouldn't distinguish it by color.I've dated countless guys of another race and of my race. I even fell in love with a guy of another race but with the problems we were having and with the world not wanting us to be together it just didn't work but a lot of realtionships like that do.So I'll never give up hope that people will look past the skin, past the sla ng, and past the stereotypes and see everyone for what they really are.....beautiful.

Being single-minded when it comes to what race you date is something I don't understand either. I think guys of any and every skin color are wonderful. I like guys of all different cultures.
But another thing I don't get is, where I live, If an African-American male dates or marries a Caucasin female, it's alright. But if an African-American female dates or marries a Caucasin male, the African-American community usually has a problem with it, as if the Caucasin men are trying to steal the African-American men's women...that's the most rediculous thing I have ever witness and it drives me crazy. Someone PLEASE explain that to me!

I wouldn't have a problem dating someone of another race... but I can see why it's become such a problem in society (unfortunatly).

There are hardly any T.V shows that have an interacial couple or marrige the people who are together always seem the be the same Race or Ethnicity.

Weird. I just got RaceDriver's post in my email, and yet it says it happened almost a month ago...

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Then we are in agreement, with the loss of the race - the loss of the culture.

The two are not necessarily correlated in that way. I'd be more likely to say "loss of culture, loss of race," not the other way around, especially considering how many different cultures there are under the blanket of "white."

I think that's incredible sad that people limit themselves because of racial borders. We're in the year 2007 why not mix and mingle because what i've noticed is diversity yes. But theres a difference between being in the same area together and mingling. Personally if your cute your cute it doesn't matter which race, or religion, or all those other things people use to isolate teogether. I'm an open minded person and i try to broaden my horizons and way of thinking because I love meeting new people and seeing what they're about. So, i dont discriminate because of race so, i dont really have a preference. My only thing is i dont like close minded ness and the unwillingness to give others a chance because of prejudices.

I personally have nothing against mixing race. As a matter of fact I think races are just catergories that society has imposed on people to define and subdivide us. Race is a name, a title, an identity, which those who identity with, unite under separating them from other people with different titles, names, identities..etc...However that is very different from mixing cultures or erasing it. Culture is a totally different ball park. CUltures mix and create new ones. The more the merrier, I say. I can never be bored with exploring the infinite numbers of cultures out there. And the best part is culture is not a title or box that restricts but an ever evolving entity that gives birth to only more.

Racecar, if you're trying to be an antagonist, it's not working. You're just making yourself look, ah, less than admirable, to the rest of us.

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Dude, you creep me out, I don't care if your blind, I don't really want to talk to you. Im sure everyone hates you equally too.

One Noisemaker down, a million to go. Why do I creep you out again?

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Oh, your a homo, I understand you a bit better now.

You reserve a little bit of hate for everyone, don't you?

everyone has there own preference, i personally am for the equallity of everyone, weather your gay, strait, black white...shit you could be blue. idc everyone should c past color and see everyone as there equall.

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"In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group..."

Thats nice, if you visit wikipedia, there is a black man who under US law is white. Geno - genetic, cide - killing.

Well I think you've made your point clear ampmaster. You want the white race dissolved so there can be no racism. (Maybe we should also dissolve classes so there can be no classism). You sir should be proud that you are a devout Race Communist.
Your problem is you think all races are the same, except for their skin colour. You are blind, or at least, you have been taught to be so (lest you be the Austrian with the moustache ).
I mean, obviously, any one who says races are different except for their skin is a Klan member, naturally. Best say we are all the same and its OK to mix, or we are German National Socialists in the extreme.

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We need to go back to one human race instead of race as a definition of skin tone

Maybe we need to go back to one genus, and try to absorb the worlds gorilla and chimpanzee populations.

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But their culture still exists in the remnants of Mexican Indians.

I don't think so. You might want to have a look at what the native men of central America produced. Their 'culture' is but a scrap of what it was, if at all. You might all like to know, that inspite of the mexicans being mixed spanish-amerindian, they often exercise outright racism against the remaining pure natives. (Sorry, ampmaster).

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I would argue that culture is the more important of the two. What distinguishes race more than culture?

Then we are in agreement, with the loss of the race - the loss of the culture.

On jews being a race. I may be wrong here, or I may not. I just don't understand how I was unable to tell that this man was Jewish before I checked:

Same goes for other men, like Spielberg.

Anyway, Im kind of bored of this discussion now. Im going to take a punt at how things are going to go down now. (These are based on figures
Zimbabwe Collapses - last Boer flees for his life
South Africa follows
Whites become minority in USA. Unrest begins.
Whites become minority to Chinese in Australia.
Europe decends into civil unrest as Muslims achieve numbers high enough to make a bid for power.
China becomes No.1 World power, Chinese-Australia allies with China. Japan not strong enough to resist China.
Russian population becomes too low to defend against Chinese expansion (maybe).
History repeats itself.

After all, has it not been the White man taking charge of this new Race Doctrine? If he ceases to be a majority his (our ) countries, can he guarantee the new majority will echo his ideology? And when the white man dissolves his race, and there are no more filthy blonde-hairs and red-hairs, will there still be blacks in Africa, and Yellows in Asia? Certainly.

Big picture people. Big picture. Im no racist. I respect my own race the least.

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YV shoots and she scores with an assist from ampmaster!

Yay!

I think I'd know a thing or two about genocide. :P

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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide define genocide:

Article 2
"In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group..."

YV shoots and she scores with an assist from ampmaster!

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Tell that to the Aztecs and Incas and their great cultures. Oh yeah, I forget, THEY DONT EXIST.

As a people they might. But their culture still exists in the remnants of Mexican Indians.

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Ive clearly stated that my argument is that race mixing will destroy races, not cultures.
Race is not equal to culture.

I would argue that culture is the more important of the two. What distinguishes race more than culture? Certainly not skin color, or language. It's culture. Without some kind of culture, your race doesn't matter at all.

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A jew is a semite, but a semite is not a jew.

Wrong. Judaism is a religion. Semitism is a race. The two are connected, but not the same. Not all Jews are Semites, and not all Semites are Jews. The connection stems from the fact that Judaism originated in the same region that Semites originally came from. The Semitic race has been spread all over the place, and non-Semites regularly become Jewish. So, not a race.

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and the holocaust WAS genocide.

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide define genocide:

Article 2
"In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group..."

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Touche. I'll get you next time Amp! *shakes fist*

I am now paranoid because of this statement *checks behind self*

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A jew is a semite, but a semite is not a jew.

exactly because being jewish is a religion not a distinct race

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the holocaust WAS genocide.

uh duh? Genocide is a select targeting of a group of peoples it doesn't require the target of said horror to be a race. A religion the opressing faction doesn't agree with will work just as fine under a genocide defenition. Don't belive me? go ask the UN I'm sure they can explain it.

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Reality is to be accepted, not to substituted with a convenient fantasy

then you really need to start listening to me because in this case. I am right and you are wrong.

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it seems people are a race when its convenient, and religon when its not, and some other grouping when neither of those fit their agenda.

I've never said anything of the sort. Judeism is a religion. The only man to have really said other wise was a nut job with a tiny mustache who was convinced that blondes should rule the world

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Jews do share distinctive facial features

Nope again. Go to your local Jewish temple and look around. I know that in my area you can see a wide vareity of body types, skin tones and all sorts of features that don't match with any one else's but their direct kin. And that whole big nose thing is complete bull shit I should know the majority of my close friends are jewish and my fine german/irish honker is bigger than most of their noses.

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that race mixing will destroy races

and isn't that a good thing? that we have to go find something else to hate each other about? that the klan will have to take off their sheets and go home because there are only people instead of white and black people? I'm really not seeing the problem with the elimination of race as it's defined now. We need to go back to one human race instead of race as a definition of skin tone

You really need to get your nose out of your ass racecar or at least get it out of Mein Kampf

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Not forced, but neither have their respective cultures been erased.

Wha? Is this debate going backwards or something? Tell that to the Aztecs and Incas and their great cultures. Oh yeah, I forget, THEY DONT EXIST.

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Your argument rests on the basis that race mixing will ultimately result in the erasure of distinctive cultures.

No its not! When on earth did I say that? Ive clearly stated that my argument is that race mixing will destroy races, not cultures.
Race is not equal to culture. BUT multiculturalism is generally actually multiracism, and critics of it are often called racists (not monoculturalists). People will twist the notions of race an culture into one another whenever it suits them.

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I am still very Irish and somewhat Italian, and all-around a white chick. My girlfriend is 100% Japanese. She hasn't let go or forgotten about her Japanese heritage, and I know more about it as a result. The cultures will mix, yes, but they'll stay the same regardless.

What! What on earth are you talking about. This is not about culture mixing. Its about race mixing. Oh, your a homo, I understand you a bit better now. No, <other thread> I guess you wouldn't ever abort your child, because you'll never fall accidently pregnant, will you?

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wrong! the jews as a people are semitic which is composed of a wide vareity of religions ranging from islam and kurdish to small out croppings of hinduism. Being semitic means you come from the area we now define as the middle east (not iran, iran is actually an aryan descendant nation unlike it's neighbors)

A jew is a semite, but a semite is not a jew. Stop twisting things. Jews ARE a race. Jews do share distinguisable facial features, and the holocaust WAS genocide. Reality is to be accepted, not to substituted with a convenient fantasy. Geez some people, it seems people are a race when its convenient, and religon when its not, and some other grouping when neither of those fit their agenda.
The sky is blue and the clouds are white.