What are your thoughts on interracial couples?

My mother was born and raised in Mexico and my father was raised in the south. They've been together for a long time and they're happy as can be. You can't let what people think bother or worry you. You do whatever makes you happy because in the end, those people won't matter!

I know what you mean. I am Native American from a rural reservation in the Arizona desert. English was my 2nd language. In adulthood, I got a job as an engineer in the southeastern USA. My girlfriend was a blonde white woman from the south - a "southern belle."

At first, I thought it was truly ironic - a "4/4" Native American from a reservation and a blonde southern woman in a relationship. But when I studied the history of the south I found that it was very common. Most of the indigenous populations that had lived in the southeastern USA intermarried very frequently with European colonists to the point where most of their descendents are part white. The Cherokees are the perfect example. Their ancestry can be traced to Georgia and the Carolinas. But they have intermixed with whites to the point where their "mixed" ancestry is obvious - a combination of Caucasian and Native American features. John Wayne showed it best in his movie "The Undefeated." A white southern woman, the daughter of a Confederate Colonel, rides off with a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, a scout for the US Army, after the Civil War. That scene was extremely realistic. Most Cherokees are now part white. See the Cherokee and southern woman in this scene eating dinner together while a young Confederate officer is caught as the odd man out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PPRPUMMyK4&feature...

Here is a modern mixed-blooded Cherokee, the former OU quarterback and Heisman winner, Sam Bradford.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFhW6o6qz0Q&feature...

I broke up with my southern girlfriend though. She was a single mother, and the stress factors were too much. But I moved on. My new friend has Native American/European ancestry. She is from South America but highly Americanized. Full-blooded Native Americans are extremely rare.

Your relationship is unusual. The Asian female/white male are more common. But I think as Asians become more common in American sports (i.e. Yao Ming) the Asian male/white female couples will become more common. For Native Americans, such mixed unions occur highly frequently with either gender. I was surprised with interest I had from southern white women - some of them were blonde and petite. Meanwhile, I am big, brown, and athletic. Not only am I Native American, but there is also a difference in religion. Most southerners are Protestant. I am Catholic. So a brown Catholic and white southern Protestant just felt really unusual for me. But southern belles are great. I've learned to appreciate the south and their women. Here is the song of the south and a tribute to SEC women. The south has "risen again" through SEC football and their southern belles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km4-eKvv3EM

http://www.walker-sports.net/2009/07/daily-erin-an...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icNq_WsKYBA&feature...

I say who cares who you date. If you're happy with someone then that is all that matters. I can't imagine why people would stare. I'm a lesbian so I get stares from people obviously haha. But I try not to let it bother me. If you're happy then who cares what anyone else thinks. I guess they stare because it is "different." Most couples are of the same race so they just stare. They are rude and stupid. You're perfectly fine :)

The oddness of interracial relationships wore off years ago (except for in maybe in the deep south); it's not something new.

A large portion of today's population was born with mixed ethnicity. I myself am two tribes of native american, okinawan, portuguese, and south asian, and I'm in my 20s. Interracial relationships go back generations in my family (my great grandmother, born in 1920, was native american and portuguese and it was FAR less accepted in her time on both sides); our family reunions look like multicultural festivals. So no matter who I date, I'm in an interracial couple.

Anyway, most non-texans get odd looks in texas, no matter who you're with.... it's just the out-of-towner effect (cuz I'm pretty sure there's asians and interracial couples in texas). In my opinion, an asian male and a caucasian female is as common as an african american male and a caucasian female and vice versa. Odd would be like Russian and Egyptian or something fairly random like that. Anyway, wishing you happiness.

You're at the top of the unusual list.

Asian guys usually don't date white girls unless they're slumming it with the fat chick or (if they're raised extremely traditionally) there's something considered "wrong" with them within their ethnicity.

Any East Asian male with anything other than an East Asian female with heritage from the same country is just plain rare. Asian males seem to not seriously date outside their own ethnicity for some reason and it seems it's extremely rare they'd marry outside of it.

EDIT: Seriously, a thumbs down for answering honestly. It's not like I said anything for or against interracial dating. He asked what the unusual was, and everyone knows statistically that it's his current relationship that's most unusual and for the reasons I gave and then some more. YAY thumbs down for dumbasses!! To answer the other part of your question though, my theory is this: Spread the genes around, we've got enough buck toothed inbreds in charge of the world as it is.

All of my friends and i mean ALL of my friends are in interracial relationships. I personally think that it's a beautiful thing. There is nothing wrong with mixing and matching. When you're attracted to someone, you don't see the colour, you see what's inside. What anyone else thinks or says is their problem. If you love her then ignore the rest of the world. It's just you and her....no one else. Interracial relationships are beautiful.

I think they're cute. I don't put a lot of thought into other people's relationships. Who you date is your business :)

i don't think much of it. alot of times i don't even notice it.