Interracial marriages surge across U.S.

[foreverido 2]

When i told my co-workers that i was getting married...they were happy for me..but as soon as i mentioned that my fiancee was a USC some asked if i was doing it to get a green card and migrate to the US. I hate it but it but i am not in the mood to justify the love that i have for my SO

[panamania79 2]

When i told my co-workers that i was getting married...they were happy for me..but as soon as i mentioned that my fiancee was a USC some asked if i was doing it to get a green card and migrate to the US. I hate it but it but i am not in the mood to justify the love that i have for my SO

Don't you just hate the "haters ?" I know I do.

[cdancer 0]

omGAAAAWWWWWWWWWWdddd!!!

I have read these stories with a lot of interest!

some people just don't get out the front door much!

if the grannies or uncle don't like the color of color...

tellem to get their heads outta their @ss its a whole new world!

[Imua 0]

When i told my co-workers that i was getting married...they were happy for me..but as soon as i mentioned that my fiancee was a USC some asked if i was doing it to get a green card and migrate to the US. I hate it but it but i am not in the mood to justify the love that i have for my SO

Don't you just hate the "haters ?" I know I do.

I had a woman who is an acquaintance of my roommate tell me that she had had a 'message from God' that my husband was only using me for a GC. This is based only on knowing the bare facts of the relationship and only talking with me for maybe 3 minutes in Walgreen's.

[panamania79 2]

When i told my co-workers that i was getting married...they were happy for me..but as soon as i mentioned that my fiancee was a USC some asked if i was doing it to get a green card and migrate to the US. I hate it but it but i am not in the mood to justify the love that i have for my SO

Don't you just hate the "haters ?" I know I do.

I had a woman who is an acquaintance of my roommate tell me that she had had a 'message from God' that my husband was only using me for a GC. This is based only on knowing the bare facts of the relationship and only talking with me for maybe 3 minutes in Walgreen's.

OH no,it doesn't seem if she's wrapped too tight.

[jundp 191]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-0...-marriage_n.htm

My question is how many of you have experienced some form of racism as a result of your interracial or mixed nationality marriage? Personally, when a member of my family found out I intended to marry a Vietnamese woman she asked me "How can you do that after what they did to us". I was shocked to say the least. My response was that

1.) I was relatively certain she had nothing to do with the war since she wasn't even born yet. and

2.) That it was us that probably owed amends since we bombed them to the stone age and then bailed out leaving one hell of a mess behind that continues to kill today. Sounds sort of familiar doesn't it? Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

P.S. I still haven't asked if a white German would be acceptable.

I have endured comments from ignorant people (not friends...just acquaintances) who want to know what it's like being engaged to a German. My respoonse is "pretty much like being engaged to an American." I've also heard comments made in a joking manner about "Nazis" which is of course, highly offensive to most Germans today. It is very difficult for some people to disassociate war/atrocity from general group of people.

You could always make a smart-### remark like "well, I was hoping no one would notice she wasn't American!"

[sj5 4]

I have no problem with my inlaws and other friends of my husband..I'm welcome to them. just when I going out e.i Target, restaurants and so on.. I noticed some female caucasian want to eat me.(I don't know but I can tell their body language) but I try not to care isn't my business its theirs, if they have problem on me then too bad for them

Edited February 6, 2008 by SJ

[panamania79 2]

I have no problem with my inlaws and other friends of my husband..I'm welcome to them. just when I going out e.i Target, restaurants and so on.. I noticed some female caucasian want to eat me.(I don't know but I can tell their body language) but I try not to care isn't my business its theirs, if they have problem on me then too bad for them

I'm glad that you handle it that way.What makes me mad is that here in this day and age ,we should be over all that stupidity.

[garya505 2]

When i told my co-workers that i was getting married...they were happy for me..but as soon as i mentioned that my fiancee was a USC some asked if i was doing it to get a green card and migrate to the US. I hate it but it but i am not in the mood to justify the love that i have for my SO

Don't you just hate the "haters ?" I know I do.

I had a woman who is an acquaintance of my roommate tell me that she had had a 'message from God' that my husband was only using me for a GC. This is based only on knowing the bare facts of the relationship and only talking with me for maybe 3 minutes in Walgreen's.

I get messages from God too. Well it's really just a voice in my head but I think it must be God. Who else would be able to talk directly to me in my head? One day the voice said "stay home and clean the guns". I don't know why he wanted me to clean the guns. Maybe that will be in the next message.

[Cassandra+Yuibi 0]

Both of our families have been totally accepting of Yuibi and I, which we are incredibly thankful for. Most of the negative comments have been from total strangers. For example: When in Japan, a hobo came up to me and started to cuss me out for being a non-Japanese person with a Japanese guy. It was more creepy than anything- he smelled like feet.

More positively (but also strange), when we were first dating we were getting out of my car at Best Buy when I teenaged guy saw us holding hands and yelled, "WOOO! INTERRACIAL COUPLE! RIGHT ON!!!!!!!!!" Starling, but at least he meant well.

[panamania79 2]

Both of our families have been totally accepting of Yuibi and I, which we are incredibly thankful for. Most of the negative comments have been from total strangers. For example: When in Japan, a hobo came up to me and started to cuss me out for being a non-Japanese person with a Japanese guy. It was more creepy than anything- he smelled like feet.

More positively (but also strange), when we were first dating we were getting out of my car at Best Buy when I teenaged guy saw us holding hands and yelled, "WOOO! INTERRACIAL COUPLE! RIGHT ON!!!!!!!!!" Starling, but at least he meant well.

A hobo of all people cussed you out.oh nooooooo!

[Anonymous 0]

I noticed some female caucasian want to eat me.(I don't know but I can tell their body language)

You might want to change that statement (tell your husband what you said and he can help you correct it).

My Filipina wife and I have been married for 3+ years now. I have not had any comments (other than my brother questioning my wife's motives by calling her a green card hunter) and I haven't really noticed any strange looks when we're out in public. That goes for here in the US as well as the Philippines. In the Philippines provinces I do get a LOT of strange looks and jaw-dropping, but I don't think it's because I'm married to a Filipina.

Maybe I really haven't experienced any racial tension or maybe I've just grown so used to ignoring it that I don't notice it anymore. I've been dating outside my white race for probably about 15 years now (Mexican, half-Vietnamese, Brazilian, Chinese and, of course, Filipina). Aside from a couple of dirty looks from Mexican men when I was dating one Mexican woman, I've really not encountered any racial adversity.

[frustrated1 0]

i'm married to a 'white' bread. haven't seen any racism because of it. what is interesting is when the kids come along, and you're filling out ethnicity information on forms, you usually don't get to pick 2 options. the most recent example was the biometrics form. there was asian, hispanic, white, etc. but there was no 'brown' option in there! and you could pick 'unknown' so i left it blank. the lady at the counter looked at the kids and circled 'asian' despite the white dad in the back.

interesting experiences all around. will only make the kids smarter, fair, well-rounded individuals.

[lirachadsbaby 0]

my husband's friend(not a close one) once called me a GOOT. Hubby told me about it and I didn't really get mad and was thinking then to let that man pay his word to me. Now, I really don't mind at all if I hear again that word against me coz me and hubby know the truth.

[panamania79 2]

I have no problem with my inlaws and other friends of my husband..I'm welcome to them. just when I going out e.i Target, restaurants and so on.. I noticed some female caucasian want to eat me.(I don't know but I can tell their body language) but I try not to care isn't my business its theirs, if they have problem on me then too bad for them

Maybe they're jealous and want you for themselves.

my husband's friend(not a close one) once called me a GOOT. Hubby told me about it and I didn't really get mad and was thinking then to let that man pay his word to me. Now, I really don't mind at all if I hear again that word against me coz me and hubby know the truth.

I haven't heard the "G" word in over 20 years,I thought it was a thing of the past.What a shame.