| Interracial dating - love has no color | | Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 10:19:45 AM by Alex Molin | Nowadays society is more opened, tolerated and can accept others who are different. However, interracial dating and interracial relationships still suffer from prejudice and cause many conflicts, but why? What wrong with sharing your love and life with someone with a different skin color? 
After all, love has no color? It could have been perfect if one didn't have to think about it at all, but unfortunately, we still take into consideration our family and friends opinion because we want to be accepted as a couple and because it is a lot easier and convenient than having to explain our relationships all the time or even being confiscated (is some cases).
Yes, it is difficult to ignore the surroundings opinions, (especially when these negative opinions are found in the close family) but in spite of that difficulty, some don't give up, and find interracial dating and relationship more challenging than most relationships. Is it hopeless? Should you give up just because it is difficult?
There is a light at the end of the tunnel: First, as mentioned before, the society is becoming more and more opened to the idea of interracial relations and dating, and second, there is a way to better communicate this situation with the stubborn other significant people in for life, while maintaining your relationship. You can help your family understand and accept your decision.
There are institutes like "Love-Sessions" help you use different methods to ease the situation on everyone and keep your relationship strong and meaningful in spite of the problems and difficulties it faces.
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| | | Politial posturing transparent at Selma | | Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 2:50:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | One tabloid called it the "Battle of the Bridge." Another dubbed it a "Civil War." "It" was the mugging for the camera at the recent anniversary celebration of the historic Selma, Ala., civil rights march. There they were, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on one end of the front row of marchers, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama on the other as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge. In 1965, protesters, most of them black, were beaten and tear-gassed at the bridge by police looking to uphold segregation. The protesters were marching to, among other things, register blacks to vote. Forty-two years later, politics was the point again. Clinton and Obama appealed to black voters, trying to make some claim to the civil-rights movement. Trying to make sure the other doesn't close out a constituency that could be key in the Democratic presidential primaries.... | |
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| | | McCain says he hopes to make amends with Dobson | | Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 12:51:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Sen. John McCain said Tuesday he hopes to patch things up with conservative Christian leader James Dobson, who recently said he wouldn't support the Republican's presidential bid under any circumstances. In a radio interview with KCBI, a Dallas Christian station, Dobson argued that McCain didn't support traditional marriage values and complained that the campaign finance legislation he co-authored hurt Christian broadcasters. "Speaking as a private individual, I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances," Dobson said on KCBI. The 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance legislation stifled "Christian radio" and "kept us from telling the truth right before elections," Dobson contended. "He is not in favor of traditional marriage and I pray that we will not get stuck with him." During a campaign stop in Columbia, S.C., McCain said: "I'm obviously disappointed and I'd like to continue and have a dialogue with Dr.... | |
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| | | McCain reaching out to conservatives | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:52:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | Sen. John McCain said Tuesday he hopes to patch things up with conservative Christian leader James Dobson, who recently said he wouldn't support the Republican's presidential bid under any circumstances. In a radio interview with KCBI, a Dallas Christian station, Dobson argued that McCain didn't support traditional marriage values and said he has prayed "we won't get stuck with him." Dobson is founder of Focus on the Family. "I'm obviously disappointed and I'd like to continue and have a dialogue with Dr. Dobson and other members of the community," McCain said Tuesday during a stop in Columbia. McCain has said gay marriage should not be legal but has angered some conservatives with his opposition to a constitutional amendment banning same-sex unions.... | |
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| | | Naughty or Nice in 2006? | | Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 12:52:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | While Santa Baby is checking to see who was naughty or nice, I am reflecting on the past twelve months of being single in the city. I must say that 2006 was a great year for me in the romance department. I have met some great guys, not all love connections, but I have two great potentials on deck going into 2007. I only met a few duds, and I had absolutely no dating drama whatsoever! My goal was to double my dating from the previous year, and I definitely did that. Being single in Atlanta, you get the chance to mix and mingle, attend cool activities around the city, hang out with your friends, and actually enjoy the single life. You also have opportunities to be naughty or nice – which I guess depends on what you are into at the moment. I think I have had a little of both this year.... | |
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| | | Mom needs lesson on race | | Posted Monday, November 27, 2006 12:56:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | QI've been in a nine-month relationship that's going great. I've often met her parents and some of her extended family. She hasn't met my family, because my mother doesn't approve of me dating her (she's white and I'm black). We really care about one another and I'm not sure what to do. Confused AFear is often the motivator for parents' disapproval of interracial dating. Your mom may be worried that somehow you'll be the one that gets hurt in this relationship, that despite her family's openness, you'll experience prejudice and lack of acceptance as a mixed-race couple. It's up to you to convince her of the strength of your feelings and commitment, and to reassure her that you're mature enough to handle whatever comes of this romance. However, if your mom is deeply prejudiced against whites or mixed-race dating, you have to ask yourself honestly whether you can handle a future in which you may become increasingly distanced from your parents, perhaps even estranged.... | |
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| | | Down (to the finish line) and dirty | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:08:16 AM by Blog57 Team | | With designs on the White House, Republican Sen. George Allen hoped all along that his 2006 Virginia re-election campaign would draw national attention. But this probably isn't what he had in mind, a stumble-marred race that is so close his party recently felt obliged to pay for $1.4 million in television ads to defend a seat long thought safe. Allen's attempt to hold off Democratic challenger Jim Webb is one of four races that strategists in both parties say will probably settle the overall battle for Senate control. In a reflection of the stakes, the two parties will spend more than $20 million combined on television in the campaign's final two weeks in Tennessee, Missouri, New Jersey and Virginia, a lineup that could not have been forecast even a few weeks ago.... | |
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| | | Candidates hope debate starts strong week | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:53:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The candidates in one of the country's tightest Senate races disagreed on a strategy for the war in Iraq in their last of three debates Saturday. Democratic Rep. Harold Ford Jr. said he wants to "chart a new course in Iraq" by dividing the country into three autonomous states that would share control over international borders. .... | |
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| | | Commentary: Bias Against Minorities in Math and Science Continues | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 2:57:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | It was a Cold War love story. Julia Robinson had never met the man she was writing. He was from Leningrad; she was from Berkeley. And yet they did one of the most precious things a man and a woman can do together. They did mathematics. And they did that beautifully, solving one of the twentieth century's greatest conundrums, Hilbert's “Tenth Problem." This puzzle had to do with how you tell if you can solve a “Diophantine equation," an equation exactly like the kind you dreaded in high school, like “xy-x2=0." And yet when the message went round the world—“Hilbert's Tenth Problem has been solved by Julia Robinson of Berkeley!"—and reporters flocked to the University of California to interview Professor Robinson, they couldn't find her. She was not Professor Robinson. The University of California would not give Julia Robinson a job.... | |
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| | | Who s the daddy? It s in the eyes | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 6:57:33 AM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK | A new study from Norway finds that eye color may provide clues as to why blue-eyed men prefer women with the same eye color. Bruno Laeng and colleagues at the University of Tromso wrote that blue eye color "can provide a highly visible and salient cue to the child's heredity." The study was published in the October issue of the Journal of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. "If men choose women with characteristics that promote the assurance of paternity, then blue-eyed men should prefer and feel more attracted towards women with blue eyes," the researchers wrote. With the brown-eyed gene being dominant and the blue-eyed gene being recessive, a person inherits eye color as follows: If both parents have blue eyes, the children will have blue eyes.... | |
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| | | Would you allow interracial dating? | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 2:19:18 AM by Blog57 Team | | There was a story in the paper last week about a man who is charged with masterminding the contract killing of his daughter-in-law. The twist to this story is the alleged hit appears to be racially motivated – the father-in-law is from India and the daughter-in-law was African-American. (Here's the full story.) So it just got me thinking: Do today's parents accept interracial dating? Is it a big deal to bring home somebody not of your race? If you don't approve of persons from certain races, how are you letting your teens or kids know this? Is it through subtle messages or are they outright forbidden? People, I know this is a touchy issue, but please try to keep it clean. Permalink | Comments (243) | Post your comment | Categories: Ethics of rearing kids today .... | |
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