Why is interracial dating a hot topic?

Kind of long story, you can skip the story if you want (it took me time to type this, so I would appreciate if you read it loool) and answer the question.

Hey guys was happening?

So I’m Bengali and pretty much my family look mixed race, I look Latino 6ft 3in, my brother looks black 6ft 1in and my sister looks white 5ft 5in. (I don’t know why I included the height), People just seem to have an opinion on all of our skin colours (people from outside like my mum or dads friends).

Dating wise my family doesn’t care who you date, it just seem other people seem to have an opinion (people at work or some people on the streets).

My cousin is married to a white British women, my other cousin is married to a Pakistani women (not really interracial but to a Pakistani and Bengali it is looool), I myself am dating a mixed race girl. We seem to be talked about by other people.

My friends who date outside their race seem to get the same reactions or talks behind their backs.

My best friend is black and he is dating an oriental Asian girl and people have told them to not get married because it never works out.

I was always taught from young by my parents and older sisters to respect people for people and never see them as a different colour or religion.

The sad thing is I see people on forum, yahoo and in the real world talk negatively about interracial dating. What up with that?