Interracial dating in my life
This was part of my homework for my family studies class
Maybe it is because I lived in an incredibly diverse for a large portion of my life, but the numbers that I came across were lower than I expected, disappointing even. I decided to write on interracial relationships. My mom is Korean and my biological dad is Black. They got a divorce and my mom married my Black step-father. I have had a huge amount of exposure to interracial relationships for my entire life. Even my girlfriend of almost four years is a product of an interracial relationship. If we had children, they would be Black, White, Korean, Mexican, and confused. The articles that I read on interracial relationships gave statistics on the rise of interracial marriages. In 2010, the percentage of interracial marriages in the US was about 8.4 which is personally surprising due to my background and expose to the subject. I have just seen so many couples dating outside of their race where I grew up that I just expected the rest of the US to be similar. Sacramento, particularly, Elk Grove had a very diverse community where White people were more like a large minority. The dating pool in the area probably allowed for a lot more interracial dating. I personally think that it is a good thing to date outside of your ethnicity so I hope that the rest of the country will catch up to the area that I grew up in. It is on the rise and my generation is regarded as the most “tolerant and open-minded” to issues such as this one. As much as I support interracial relationships, I do think that it is also important to keep dating within the same ethnicities and in no way am I trying to say that everybody should date somebody outside of their race. I am more for the advocacy and trying to make sure that it will continue to shed the taboo. So maybe the next time my girlfriend and I go to hometown buffet, we don’t draw attention and sly remarks by groups of older people just for holding hands.
I was just thinking about this today and how beautiful it is to be able to see another person as a human and not think so much about race and other things but just them and their soul. Like Joe, I’m not pushing for everyone to date outside the race, but instead not make a factor. Just follow the person that really makes you whole inside. A soulmate.
