How is the 30 somethings/interracial dating scene in Minneapolis?

[MN-Born-n-Raised]

Originally Posted by uptown_urbanist

You mean in the United States, in Minnesota, or the Twin Cities? I grew up in Minneapolis, and many of my friends had parents of different races, in almost all cases one white and one black parent. There certainly was nothing odd about that. It might be different in some parts of the state, but there's nothing unusual about a white/black relationship in Minneapolis, and I think that anyone who does care is the odd one out, not representative of society.

I don't know the answer to that one because I don't live in MPLS. Certainly it's viewed that way in the burbs. Of couse I cannot speak for everyone but it seems there is a consensus.

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by srsmn

Could we maybe stop using the term 'Anglo', as it has never had a positive connotation in the United States for the vast majority of white people who do *not* classify as 'Anglo'? It is at best inaccurate, and at most offensive to those of us without a shred of English (Protestant) heritage...

I think you'll find there are just as many Protestants who are of German or other non-English heritage. Martin Luther was German, and I think the largest group of whites in the US are of German descent.

[itsathrill]

I don't think you have to worry about the inter racial thing, anybody that is looking for true love isn't looking at the color of the skin anyways. I overhear women that I work with talk about not finding dateable men but they are looking for them sitting on a bar stool. If and when you get here don't be afraid to look at parks and other public places, some of us do not like the bar\club scene.

[srsmn]

Originally Posted by rcsteiner

I think you'll find there are just as many Protestants who are of German or other non-English heritage. Martin Luther was German, and I think the largest group of whites in the US are of German descent.

Well, that wasn't really my point. Protestant was in parentheses because the Anglo-Protestant power elite in this country were the ones traditionally keeping everybody else down. It's one of those triangle-square things, where if you were *both* of English descent, and Protestant, you were in the clear....but if you were one or the other or neither, you were in trouble. The poor, rural English and Scotch-Irish had an equally tough time to the Germans (both Catholic or Protestant), or the Irish, Italians, etc., when they first came to the US.