<p>I would be happy with sons-in-law that would allow me to the the number one grandparent.</p>
<p>I will hate that woman, whoever and whatever she is, that marries The Precious Baby King.</p>
<p>“they are beautiful”</p>
<p>I suspect they are smart, too. I wonder if many high stats kids on CC are bi-racial.</p>
<p>If the guy treats my daughter well, I don’t care if he is purple.</p>
<p>A guy just broke up with my D because she is supposedly acceptable to date but not to marry because she is of a different religion/culture.
I was very hesitant of the relationship but kept my mouth shut.Both H and I are happy about it because frankly we couldn’t see what she saw in him.</p>
<p>Race has never been an issue with us, either.</p>
<p>Don’t care about race, but would prefer they be Jewish!</p>
<p>But isn’t that thinly veiled about race really? You are not going to find many Asian/African/Hipanic Jews.</p>
<p>cbreeze–You have no idea. In our congregation there are 3 women with bi-racial children, and one family with 5 adopted Asian children. It so happens that these delightful kids are all too young for my kids, but you see the possibilities, right?</p>
<p>So it’s not “thinly veiled” anything, thankyouverymuch.</p>
<p>And don’t forget all the Ethiopian and Sephardic Jews! </p>
<p>Oh and I know many, many Cuban Jews (who live in Fla. now)</p>
<p>I met a Chinese immigrant at a craft show last spring and was talking about this topic (Yes I can talk to anyone about anything it seems). I asked whether he had married an American. He said he had not, but would have liked to. He added that he had bad teeth and thought that mixing up the gene pool a bit might help!</p>
<p>amtc–exactly. </p>
<p>And many Sephardi Israelis are quite dark…some I know originally from Yemen.</p>
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<p>Have you read this article? The shared genetic elements suggest that members of any Jewish community are related to one another as closely as are fourth or fifth cousins in a large population, which is about 10 times higher than the relationship between two people chosen at random off the streets of New York City.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/science/10jews.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/science/10jews.html</a></p>
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<p>When you said ‘an American’, do you generally mean caucasians?</p>
<p>“I don’t think the term “interracial dating” has ever crossed the lips or the minds of most current HS students. It doesn’t occur to them that it’s something that wouldn’t be done…to them it would be akin to dating guys with blue eyes but not green eyes. When kids come home from school with stories about their classmates, race is never brought up unless it’s crucial to the story (e.g. the dance teacher requiring a hairdo that the African American girls can’t manage). Sometimes I’ll hear them say a first name I’ve never heard in my life, and I’ll ask them where the kid is from and what he or she looks like, just because the level of diversity is interesting to this mom who grew up with zero diversity in school.”</p>
<p>Missypie took the words out of my mouth. Even the part about being curious when an unusual (to me) name is mentioned. My kids have grown up in fairly diverse schools and have a wide variety of friends -varied racial groups, personalities, cultures, interests, etc. I think it’s great. My primary concern with my kids dating is that they are kind, respectful, compassionate, fun, dependable, caring human beings to those they date and that they receive those qualities in return.</p>
<p>I forget that my kids are biracial. So, no, I guess I don’t care.</p>
<p>My neighbor is vietnamese, she came from a large family. I dont think any of them married someone from their culture, those kids are gorgeous, particularly one little girl who is vietnamese and Indian. My daughter’s friend is half asian and half caucasian, she does everything in her power to look asian. she doesnt like the "white " part of her.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the responses, good posts :)</p>
<p>As to the term “interracial dating” I only use it to describe the situation, I don’t categorize relationships or think in those terms obviously.</p>
<p>I guess I shouldn’t worry. For practically all conceivable rational reasons, my parents would have a hard time to not like her - she has excellent values (very hard worker), is extremely bright, attractive physically (was a model), ‘classy’ and always respectful and helpful to everyone.</p>
<p>Still, in the case of my dad there’s no doubt he’d oppose it if he knew, at least until (if) he ever accepts it. I don’t necessarily want to keep my parents from knowing, it’s not like it’s a secret or anything, but I don’t want to create unnecessary tension either. I guess I’d just need to think of a way to subtly prepare him.</p>
<p>My brother’s wife is half Japanese by ancestry, news to us that the Japanese don’t marry outside their group. Personally I can’t wait till we are all a little more mixed up. I think we’ll all be better looking when we are brown!</p>
<p>I heard that in Hawaii the Asian intermarriage rate is 50%. And that was a few years ago.</p>
<p>As for Jews and genetic relationships: The closest relationship is with…Italians.</p>
<p>And, no it is absolutely not racist to say that one would prefer a Jew to marry a Jew. There are so many Jews of different colors and countries of origin it is amazing. In Hawaii, in Oahu, the synagogue greeted my parents with “Shaloha!” Shalom with aloha. And the Jewish man who greeted my parents? Japanese Jewish American.</p>
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I was basically quoting my dad, not saying it was true. Obviously it’s 2010, and things aren’t that way any more (although the Armineans still marry internally with few exceptions).</p>
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Agreed… reminds me of this video: [YouTube</a> - Girls are Like M&M’s](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBwFqudGac8]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBwFqudGac8) :)</p>
<p>I wouldn’t care about any of that – whether my kids dated outside their race, economic class, background, gender. But after meeting my D’s now ex-BF, I have come to realize that I do not want them dating anyone who has no sense of irony.</p>