i see your point and appreciate the history lesson. while i don't think they're beautiful because they look more 'white', i just think they're beautiful for who they are. but i can see the historical side, although that is not what i personally was referring to.

First thing of I thought was my neice and nephew :)

The cutest damn half-Filopino babies around :D

But anyway, I know around here if you're white and you're seen (let alone dating) with anyone a different shade of you, it's frowned upon. Sucks doesn't it?

Re: Re: Re: Interracial dating question
 

So, I still consider myself Korean or Asian....

If you look at my pics, that's what I mostly look like...it's the Hawaiian in me as well.

If you check out my post again you'll see that it begins "Your statement kind of implies . . . " Not "Oh my god, I can't believe you said that . . ." Plus I concluded with "I know that's probably not what you meant." I fail to see where I put words in your mouth.

I think that lovelyivy and I were just trying to educate because there WILL be people out there who would take your statement the wrong way. I'm sorry if that was misunderstood.

39 posts and I haven't heard any from the "horses' mouths". :(

I guess it's too sensitive of a subject, oh well.

what horses you looking for?

I did post a direct post
http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...029#post507029

In my area (Pacific NW) stares are rare.

My husband and I have not had any problems out here

Smiley21, when you say "but i just mentioned birracial people cause they COULD have skin color that we are not normally used to seeing" , what unusual color is it that does not already exist within the our ethinicity? (I say our because I am Af. Am too).

As you know, skin color wise we run the gamut of skin tones from extremely light, to tan, to deep brown. (I read somewhere that we have over 48 documented skin-tones, while other ethinicities only have about 7-10). So what does make the skin tone of a biracial child so "special and different" when its same exact shade already exist in many african americans? (Honestly, who knew Halle Berry was biracial until you saw her Lifetime Intimate Portrait?) :D


The only difference is the fact that the child is BIRACIAL - which some folks would interpret as reinforcing the twisted notion that "being mixed" is somehow better or more beautiful that those who are not "mixed". (Shelacious's post gave us the historical reasoning).

This post is not to criticize your intent, but I did want to shed some light on it for other people who may be looking at this discussion like " WTF are they talking about?" :confused:

Seriously, there is no need to get upset. The reason that nobody is "jumping on" sigmagrrl for her post is that nobody is jumping on you. All that those of us who posted were trying to do was let you know that there are people out there who wouldn't understand what you were trying to say and would be very upset. Your post was quoted because it was the first one, but that doesn't mean that sigmagrrl's would be any less offensive to them.

I posted. :confused:

I don't get many stares. My father was concerned that Mr Munch and I would get static the first time I visited his family, as opposed to my smaller, more bigoted, and much less cosmopolitan home. Ha ha ha.

Nevermind. I was talking about the Black male/White female and White male/Asian female combo specifically.

But the comments about the other combos were just as interesting.

The science...
 

First of all, this topic has been discussed and re-discussed. So do a search...

Second of all, the term RACE is a socio-political construction of some a$$wipes back in the 19th century to justify why certain groups of people should be enslaved vs. others and White Supremacy...

(Off the soapbox, switchin' gears with major CD, CD, CD...)

From a genetic perspective, there is no such thing as RACE. We are all "gradations" of one another... The coloring in our skin is derived from the "tyrosinase" gene the generates degrees of melanin. Other issues such as hair texture and facial feature might be related to the environmental impact--called genetic pressure...

Genetically, the mitochondrial "Eve" and the "Out of Africa" Theory, all Homo sapiens sapiens came out of the southern tip of Africa and traversed thru the what is now the Middle East into Europe and across Asia.

The Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in a given population is suggesting the same result... All humans came from Africa--genetically...

The difference is skin color may be a result our hues needing to adjust to a variety of conditions such as cold, darkness, less light, viral, mutation, etc., etc.

But overall, if we can mate with each other and produce babies, we are all but one in the same...

I do not like these kind of discussions because I find the knowledge base so very lacking. Folks really need to know all of their history before rattling off what they think ought to happen.

I will leave it at that, because I will start putting a ironic spin to it where I can get the very folks you want in here and then this topic will be shut down...

Re: The science...
 

Do it.
Do it now! :D ;)

i missed this one...but anyhow,

are you kidding? how the hell is choosing by race NOT a sign of prejudice? being happy has nothing to do with skin complexion. on top of this, excluding your own race from your dating spectrum shows that you might have some sort of issues with it. if i walked around saying "asian women are this, asian women are that.." that's why i date black women....that makes me extremely ignorant.

Re: Re: The science...
 

You really do not want me to go there now, do you??? ;)

Given my last silly questioned topic, it was amazing with the answers I got...

PM me if you want...