My mixed emotions

[appleton]

We all know the theory: love is colour blind. It is a somewhat simplistic and sugary ethos, but one that many of us were brought up on. My parents - my mother was a magistrate, my father a prison reformer - were hand-wringing liberals, who fervently held to this notion. When I went to the local primary school, my class was a boisterous melee of white British, West Indian, Greek Cypriot, Irish and Ugandan Asian kids. It wasn't all happy, smiley multi-culturalism, but all we rubbed along pretty well.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/family/story/ ... 52,00.html

Only saw this story today. Was posted ages ago. Seems to have caused quite a stir. Never though she would have prejudices in her but I guess they are found everywhere these days.

Read it.. what do you think?

[Dom]

Well not having had kids of my own, I cant say I would have expected that kind of reaction either, but there you go.

I have to say though, that I don't think I'd find myself in a situation like that. Personally speaking, I prefer white women to women of other races, but that's purely a physical thing.

Also, I think that the cultural differences between white people and others might put off the families of any girl I met who wasn't white. Not because of any racist viewpoint, but simply because I've found from experience that members of other races hold their own cultural traditions and values in a much higher light than your average white person. So whereas a white person and their families might not have any real cultural values and traditions that they might expect their new, coloured spouse to repect, the spouse may have many, and they may find it difficult to be with someone who just doesn't have those same values.

Anyways, that's just my thoughts. At the end of the day, it shouldn't matter what colour you are.

[periphrastic]

[quote=Dom]Anyways, that's just my thoughts. At the end of the day, it shouldn't matter what colour you are.[/quote]


well, living in america, that's purely idealistic and oh so foreign, lol - i guess i'd say there's not an issue with "color mattering" - it's the prejudicial attitude behind the "color mattering" that's the problem

i'm black - and i know many of my cousins, for example, have expressed intentions on marrying only black men. why? because they're more comfortable with them, probably, "know" them (in terms of what to expect, how they'll interact, etc), are already familiar with "black" culture (which is really a simplification) - and are just already in their element around other blacks - it's not a prejudicial anti-white folks thing at all - it's about familiarity

but yeah okay