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[Zero Gravity]

It's nothing moral or anything, I just honestly find non-white girls more appealing.
-is white-

I also think white girls are incredibly self centered and stingy and down right unreliable.

-thinks about it- does that make me sexist?

[Reyo]

It's actually bad for humanity for different races to mix. It narrows the gene pool because all the dominant genes from each "race" just crush the recessive ones. Less gene variation means we're less adaptable.

People won't listen though. Most of the time if I say something like that I just get called a racist.

This sounds like such a silly topic to argue over. It's not that you did anything wrong SheJ, but because anyone against the notion will be using the same arguments that are against gay marriage, either religious, or spawned from uneducated hatred.

It's a proven, biological fact that children from interracial "relations" tend to have a better chance at surviving than children of "pure relations". It's a matter of the immunities. African Americans tend to suffer from cycle cell anemia while Caucasian tend to suffer from cystic fibrosis, yet both of those conditions hold a resistance to both malaria and typhoid fever respectively for the individual who holds the gene. Since the gene for both conditions are incompletely dominant, a child of an African American with cycle cell and a Caucasian with cystic fibrosis will have both conditions, but will only be at half the severity as someone with full blown cycle cell or cystic fibrosis. What's more is that the immunity to typhoid fever and malaria are both just as real.

Besides, the last sentance of your first paragraph conflicts with the rest of your comment. You say that gene variation is a good thing, yet the very first thing you say that that it's dangerous to mix races...wouldn't mixing the races create MORE variations with each individual?

[Top Typhlosion]

I agree with Reyo, you sort of contradict yourself.
Nobody will call you racist, this is a forum where we can debate productively and be respectful to one another's different views and arguments.

[Galahawk]

Honestly, we're not in the time where it was taboo to date a black man or woman anymore. I see absolutely no problem with dating outside your race or finding a member of another race attractive. And what Reyo said only further justifies it.

I know plenty people who are in interracial relationships but are plenty happy and get lots of love and support, and I can guarantee that a portion of that love and support is definitely coming from me.

[ravenbird]

My next door neighbors are a mixed-race couple: She's as white as a sheet with blondey-blonde hair and he's one of the darkest people I've ever seen, and they both are some of the nicest people I've ever met and so are their kids. also, the couple who won 'cutest couple' in my school this year were mixed race, and so were MY personal favorite couple (first one white/latino, second asian/african american) So personally i dont see how people can argue against it.

[Galahawk]

My next door neighbors are a mixed-race couple: She's as white as a sheet with blondey-blonde hair and he's one of the darkest people I've ever seen, and they both are some of the nicest people I've ever met and so are their kids. also, the couple who won 'cutest couple' in my school this year were mixed race, and so were MY personal favorite couple (first one white/latino, second asian/african american) So personally i dont see how people can argue against it.

I have interracial-coupled neighbors too. One grew up in Peru and the other one's lived here in Ohio his whole life.
Very polite people, and I've been friends with their two sons pretty much since the day I moved into my current house.

[SheJ]

Sadly, there are people out there against it. They believe each race should stick to being with one another. My grandmother is one of those people. She won't even acknowledge that I am with my boyfriend. She says we're not a couple at all. It upsets me to no end she won't treat him like she did my other boyfriends who were white. He's the same as they are on the inside. He's also a wonderful human being who cares deeply for me and my mother. He loves me and wants to take care of me for the rest of my life. I just wish my grandmother would see how great he is.

[Natsume Reiko]

Personally I don't see an issue and I'm Asian. By mixing genes to to speak you're adding more variety into the gene pool. In a lot of cases mixed relations tends to have children that have better genetic odds than their parents/ancestors. Sure my mother doesn't like the idea but she can go kick the can for all I care. Her family's somewhat inbred anyhow. Huzzah for ex-nobility.

This is a time and age where people of all races and ideas can communicate with each other. One race isn't superior to the other or whatnot. Each has their own genetic strengths and weaknesses. From a biological standpoint humanity can prosper from mixed relations. The children get all the strengths and nullify the weaknesses. It's a win win situation for the most part.

[Kookie Monster]

There's nothing wrong with this. It's usually only the older generation which doesn't like it when you date or marry out of your race. There's someone out there for everyone, that doesn't mean they have to be the same color and race. As long as people find real love, it doesnt matter what color is the person they marry or date, what matters is the bond between them.

[Cassowary]

What's there to disagree with?

[Sarean]

No you should only be with people who look like you because it's completely bad and wrong to be next to different people because it looks weird and makes people uncomfortable.

[/sarcasm]

I love how the Communication Era is all ass-hurt that people of different races are...*gasp* COMMUNICATING.

[Xal]

It's actually bad for humanity for different races to mix. It narrows the gene pool because all the dominant genes from each "race" just crush the recessive ones. Less gene variation means we're less adaptable.

People won't listen though. Most of the time if I say something like that I just get called a racist.

Dominant alleles don't 'crush' recessive ones, they don't even prevent recessive alleles from being passed on. Dominance only affects whether the characteristic an allele codes for is expressed or not. It doesn't reduce gene variation at all, and even if it did I don't see much reason why that would be a problem. Characteristics from dominant alleles are generally more advantageous than characteristics from recessive ones. As well as that dominant and recessive alleles are both different versions of the same gene, so adaptability wouldn't be affected even if they did 'crush' each other. It's not as if chunks of DNA would be lost leaving nothing to code for that characteristic.

[Bora]

I find people that are my race more attractive then out-of-race people.
But yeah, I really admire people who date people who don't have the same skin color.
It might be hard for both said to adjust to their different cultures...

[Bug Catcher Jax]

Um... race is just a made-up set of "ideals" by those who had power a few hundred years ago.

Scientifically speaking, we all came from brown-skinned Africans. If Jesus Christ was real he would have had brown skin (hello Middle East?).

One of my uncles, who is Icelandic, has a Japanese wife and they have the cutest babies!

So yeah, if you can't tell, I support same-sex marriage and relationships. (Even though, unfortunately, most places I've lived are 98% white.)

[JOSEPH1103]

to me it okay if a person is hispanic that goes out with a white like me

[PATD]

I'm fine with any races dating any races they want to. In fact, it makes me very happy seeing people of different races happy and being in love together, it makes me feel like there is less racism in the world. I despise racism.

[S3iKun]

There is no such thing as human "races".
We're all the same race, just with different qualities.
And we do all come from (not from Adam and Eve but) the native humans of Africa, and from there we have emigrated and changed depending on were we live.
We're made from the same shape, but colored and dented differently because of ours ancestors' surroundings.

Therefore, you can't possibly be dating a human of a different race. In case there not a Homo Sapiens Sapiens. And that seems very unlikely in my eyes.
And because of that is the argument against dating over the Human races invalid.

This post has been edited by S3iKun: Jul 28 2010, 02:18 PM

[Blastoise]

I really dont find anything wrong with it, and thats something, coming from someone who has deep opinions about stuff.

[Stratospheric Co...]

I really see no problem with it. I mean we're all people right?

[Pokii]

My parents flat out told me they're against it, but I (presumably like most people now) don't have a problem with it. I think it's what someone said earlier about older generations being more against it, because something like it was less common and acceptable back then.