Find Love With Inter Racial Relationships

Mar 04, 2018

Although interracial marriage has been legal in the US since 1967, the idea of interracial relationships is often still a controversial topic in this country. In 2014, Cheerios played a commercial featuring an interracial couple with a biracial child, and the internet couldn’t take it. The company had to remove commenting on the YouTube video because of so much backlash. Many people think that companies are trying to push an agenda on them.

The statistics According to the Pew Research Center, more people are in multiracial relationships than ever before. For many people, this is such a hot topic because it’s more prevalent.

Those statistics don’t even include those in non-marriage relationships. Overall, people are waiting to get married or staying together without marriage indefinitely.

Not in my day

For many people who have a problem seeing people in interracial relationships, it’s a matter of thinking that one’s own traditions should apply to everybody. This is especially true when it’s an African American in a relationship with a white person, since the difference between the two is easy to see.

For some, it comes from a familial history of deep racism. For others, it’s just a matter of ignorance of the fact that multiracial relationships can be successful and healthy without it impacting anybody else.

The reality

The truth is that people who identify as biracial are growing in numbers. More than nine million Americans identify as multiracial, and the number increases dramatically when accounting for people who don’t self-identify or don’t realize they are of more than one race.

Interracial relationships have always been around; they just weren’t always in the open. Few people are purely of one race, so it is difficult or impossible to be in a relationship without being with someone who is at least partially of another race.

Overcoming the stigma

Understanding other people and their motives is the way to understanding why interracial relationships exist. Do people actively seek out someone of other races, or did they just find someone they felt was right for them?

Many date only others of another race. Some white women date black men because they like their culture: the music, language, and food. Maybe they have dated white men before but never found one they could identify with. White women with weight trouble especially can be attracted to black men who don’t mind being with a woman with a “few extra pounds.”