This is a good story for the U.S.: Interracial marriages at an all-time high, study says – CNN.com. There’s lots of good material in there that’s well worth a read.
So while you still have the likes of people like Sen. Jake Knotts in South Carolina calling people racist names, that type of thinking and the fear it brings with it is dying out. Instead you have people loving people for who they are and people supporting that. And that is a smart thing indeed.
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I know I’m a pain in neck, but the following excerpt in the CNN article shows ignorance or prejudice:
“Adriano Schultz, 26, who is Brazilian, met his wife, Theresa, who is white, through the site in 2006. A year later, the couple married.”
A person can be both Brazilian AND white, especially somebody with a last name like Schultz. Brazil has plenty of immigrants from Germany and other countries that are as white as their Europeans counterparties.
Good point! I missed that! Brazil *is* very multicultural and multiracial, so I am not sure what CNN was getting at there.
CNN changed the text. Now it reads:
Adriano Schultz, 26, who was born in Brazil and identifies himself as having a “mixed ethnicity,” met his wife, Teresa, who is white, through the site in 2006. A year later, the couple married.
See:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/06/04/pew.interracial.marriage/index.html
That’s better, though someone like myself who has mixed Polish and Newfoundland ancestry is both mixed ethnicity and “white”, fwiw. I think what is key is that people who would be considered of different races are overloooking that and seeing how much they have in common. I think that overlooking our differences, whatever they may be, is great