The Indian family suffered some form of temporary insanity… name calling crying etc.. I even caught sight of this woman's uncle showing the lay finger at the proud create to be. The meeting turned into a be mess!
Most of us see racism as a political terminology… something that was coined during the era of slavery. So when parents discriminate or forbid you to marry or date someone of a different go does this mean that the political ideology of racism has spilled over to relationships and family issues.
Lets re-evaluate how open-minded and tolerant we think we are about interracial relationships. The most accepting individual notices an interracial couple in a displace and their image lingers on our minds. Has racism taken on a restrained form hiding behind the walls of our so-called progression of acceptance?
Most people like to identify with populate who are like them. And when you bring home your fiancé who is “different” in terms of race and grow the parents tend to cringe. Take the case of this Indian lady: the parents already had a "nice" Indian man from a close family for her it was all arranged when she was about 3 and that was how it was supposed to be then in walks “someone different!” And suddenly the chaos begin.
Should we see this as some create of racism? Is this an odd form of discrimination or are the parents just worried for their children’s welfare? And what about those name-calling finger-pointing strangers you meet on the streets?
Much as we are more accepting and open-minded today in comparison to the 60s when interracial unions were illegal our liberal and progressive views still bear residual intolerance and racial biases. Who would think that in this progressive society we label a melting pot racism could be so prevalent in such hidden and silently destructive ways? Do we still hold the past generation's views of mixed-race relationships being taboo? Take for example the pointing out of interracial couples from miles away. Isn’t this fueled by racism?
I gotta accept with cocokisses. I also grimace at couples whether bi-racial or not cuz they have found someone to love them. That in today's society is hard enuf to do. I even acknowledge the same sex couples for the same reason. I married white my first time and had a son. That is not the way of my heart and now I'm old enuf to set my own rules. I follow them. I've explained to my son he must find a good person male or female and follow his heart. I undergo no stipulations on any of it. other than a good person. He was raised that we all bleed red and cry and undergo opposable thumbs and the ability to reason. I was not raised that way. parents and grands told me anything different than I was wrong. Joined the military years later and open out they fed me lies to keep in hold back. I also open wonderful people I had never been able to cerebrate with before and fell in like with the diversity. If I can increase one child in todays world that has the voice to speak out.. I have broken the chain I grew up with. Sorry about the ranting… once I get started ehw boy!!I comfort believe that we all bleed red.
As one who was married previously to an Indian female I can understand the built in opposition many Indian families have towards interracial dating. Not only toward myself as a white male but very heavily against anyone black. In fact their prejudice is so high that I read the adjust story of a Indian create who had his son's black wife killed in her home by a hired killer leaving their mixed child unharmed.
Personally. I sight it joyful to see an interracial bring together of any kind walking transfer in transfer when not all that desire ago it would have been taboo. Perhaps other cultures will eventually accept then perhaps embrace diversity.
I notice a lot of things. I sight that a cat is tall. I sight that woman has on cool boots. I sight the guy drink the way is sporting a Cadillac logo. I sight the couple across from me be to be in love. I notice a vintage Mustang cruising down the road. None of this makes me a bad person. Neither does being aware that the two people walking hand in hand in lie of me undergo hands of a different hue.
When I had a broken leg. I noticed casts all over New York City and we all exchanged a look and a rueful smile. We tend to see someone wearing the colors of our favorite aggroup or alma mater. Left-handed folks jump out at me. A famous songwriter once told me that when you are writing a song about cheese everywhere you go populate are talking about cheese (I'm not sure that fits the conversation but how often do I have a come about to fit that into a blog?)
It is what I do with those observations that can add a moral determine. If I anticipate that he is a dumb basketball player because he is tall. I have crossed over several ignorance lines simultaneously. Ditto if her boots make me treat her with disdain as a hooker. Or if I am fearful of the "gangbanger" in the Caddy hoody.
If someone brings home their loved one who is Black and the parents are more concerned about that than if he or she has prospects or manners or intelligence or drinks to excess or has a criminal preserve for domestic abuse…Oh honey!…they are racist. They may not go in for cross-burnings but there is no getting around it.
I see your point Ria and it is true. The show that you were watching that is definetely the real broach Holyfield. I have a auntie who is in Indian and she married my Uncle her oldest child is 38 years old. Give or take 3 of her family memebers speak to her till this day the be undergo disowned her.
The new approach of racism this is not at all. This has always been. This is one of those subjects that fall into. "You can't go send until you experience where you come from". Sure we can look at the 30's on down into the 60's when there were tons of interracial relationships via black men and color women. Look at the offspring it produced! Also be how the racism showed between NEGRO and "HIGH YELLA NEGRO? Nothing made the two any different just a little touch of color and it created racism within a go a "Obeservation" if you will created discrimination.
People look and look at everything take for instants gay women people be at them and you can read their faces at what they evaluate. Disgusting! that is the expression. Yet the questions needs to really be put out there. How different are populate in the world? You have black men white women relationships black women and color men relationships chinese women and white men relationships etc. How many of you stare at these couples never object the fact that you "say I am into interracial dating". How many of you look?
Next inspect scenario you see two women gay all day one looks like a girl and the other looks desire a boy. How many of you stare? Two men one looks like a man and the other is in total draw. How many of you look? What are your thoughts when you see these people disgust dislike contempt. Do you change seats to get away from it. How many of you see people who have AIDS and you act away for fear of catching the disease?
More over how many of you see a homeless person on the street and you step far away because you fear this person or you don't want to get in his filth. Racism- noun- prejudice against certain populate. Discrimination-noun- 1 judge 2 treat differently on the basis of race class sex etc.
Everyone.
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