86% of Americans now approve of interracial marriages (date, kids, friend)

[90sman]

Record-High 86% Approve of Black-White Marriages



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[CancerianMoonPrincess]

Yep. I agree. They're all people so who cares what race they are?

[Chowhound]

The poll was missing an option.

"Who cares how other people date cause it's none of their damn business."

[Mathguy]

The biggest problem we have today is the conditional acceptance or "free pass" on racism when the originator is a minority.

I think it's not helping community relations especially between some ethnic groups in major cities.

[SifuPhil]

Originally Posted by CancerianMoonPrincess

Yep. I agree. They're all people so who cares what race they are?

Your kids will care when they get bullied in school for being "half-and-halfs".

[90sman]

Originally Posted by SifuPhil

Your kids will care when they get bullied in school for being "half-and-halfs".

I really don't know anyone who's been bullied over being interracial. My cousin is 13 and he's never had any problems. My best friend and her three sisters are interracial too, and they've never dealt with any racism.

[CancerianMoonPrincess]

Originally Posted by SifuPhil

Your kids will care when they get bullied in school for being "half-and-halfs".

No kids for me. Remember? I don't care what race they are, I'm not having kids.

[SifuPhil]

Originally Posted by CancerianMoonPrincess

No kids for me. Remember? I don't care what race they are, I'm not having kids.

I didn't mean you personally - I meant as a reason for being cautious with inter-racial pairings in general.

[buddy5]

I think that poll is a bunch of hooey. I live in the South. There is no way 79% of the people in the South approve of interacial marraige.

So from 796 non-hispanic whites, out of approximately 220, ooo,ooo, they extrapolate this finding. One out of 278,894.

No way. Ludicrous.

[Lucario]

Originally Posted by SifuPhil

Your kids will care when they get bullied in school for being "half-and-halfs".

Only idiots bully kids for any reason. I personally have never seen anyone bullied for being any type of mix. Where I live, the vast majority of people are either mixed or from a nonwhite ethnicity.