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Interracial marriage in the U.S. hits all-time high, 1 in 12 marrying interracially

  • 29-02-2012 8:54am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭


    US Interracial marriages have hit an all time high.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102111/Interracial-marriage-U-S-hits-time-high-12-marrying-outside-race.html

    It will only be a matter of time before we are all coffee coloured. The world is becoming mixed race and this is fantastic. I've always said this is the way the world is going and people were laughing at this prospect.

    Ireland, Britain and Western Europe, with its increasing non-white immigration should follow suit at some point. I firmly believe we will have a mixed race majority within 50-100 years without a shadow of a doubt in some european countries. This means no more BNP threat, or far right parties in europe etc.

    Western Europe really could have a beige majority within a short time frame, and then humanity will be moving closer together and potentially a one world government with no patriotism or nation states. That would be fantastic! It sounds dreamy but in the current age of globalisation anythings possible.

    Very good and very pleased it's important to get rid of race and we're doing that, just hoping for those statistics to look favourably in many of the census across europe (including Ireland).


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    I suspect obesity rates will continue to rise as the constant reminder of chocolate will be unavoidable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭peckerhead


    What about magnolia?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Gnobe wrote: »
    ...humanity will be moving closer together and potentially a one world government with no patriotism or nation states. That would be fantastic! It sounds dreamy but in the current age of globalisation anythings possible...

    To be honest, it sounds like the world Gene Roddenbury visioned in many of his Sci-fi films and TV series.
    Not knocking the notion of the above happening, would be nice to see to some extent, not so sure about one world government though.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Let me get this right, "1 in 12" that's less then 10%. How is that considered high?

    And even then, not all married couples go on to have kids, so how does that make it a matter of time before we are all coffee coloured?

    :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    how does that make it a matter of time before we are all coffee coloured?

    coffee with cream... blackish chicks are hot! I look forward to the future.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭mysteries1984


    Gnobe wrote: »

    Very good and very pleased it's important to get rid of race and we're doing that, just hoping for those statistics to look favourably in many of the census across europe (including Ireland).

    I like diversity, myself.

    And come on, The Daily Mail is your source?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    And come on, The Daily Mail is your source?

    The Daily Mail don't write most of their USA articles
    You'll see at the top of the page this was written by Associated Press

    It's not unusual, all papers buy in other articles and give credit to other sources

    You will find the exact same article all over the internet this morning

    Just because it's in the DM doesn't mean it's an agenda article


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,900 ✭✭✭✭Riskymove


    Let me get this right, "1 in 12" that's less then 10%. How is that considered high?

    And even then, not all married couples go on to have kids, so how does that make it a matter of time before we are all coffee coloured?

    :confused:

    PLUS

    It's not all about white and black marrying, it's also hispanics and asians etc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Gnobe wrote: »
    US Interracial marriages have hit an all time high.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102111/Interracial-marriage-U-S-hits-time-high-12-marrying-outside-race.html

    It will only be a matter of time before we are all coffee coloured. The world is becoming mixed race and this is fantastic. I've always said this is the way the world is going and people were laughing at this prospect.

    Ireland, Britain and Western Europe, with its increasing non-white immigration should follow suit at some point. I firmly believe we will have a mixed race majority within 50-100 years without a shadow of a doubt in some european countries. This means no more BNP threat, or far right parties in europe etc.

    Western Europe really could have a beige majority within a short time frame, and then humanity will be moving closer together and potentially a one world government with no patriotism or nation states. That would be fantastic! It sounds dreamy but in the current age of globalisation anythings possible.

    Very good and very pleased it's important to get rid of race and we're doing that, just hoping for those statistics to look favourably in many of the census across europe (including Ireland).

    will never happen, too many old white guys would lose too much without governments in their pockets protecting their oil and resources.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭mysteries1984


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    The Daily Mail don't write most of their USA articles
    You'll see at the top of the page this was written by Associated Press

    It's not unusual, all papers buy in other articles and give credit to other sources

    You will find the exact same article all over the internet this morning

    Just because it's in the DM doesn't mean it's an agenda article

    Fair point. I still think it sounds a bit one world order for my liking though.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Fair point. I still think it sounds a bit one world order for my liking though.
    We should move to a different world! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭mysteries1984


    smash wrote: »
    We should move to a different world! :D
    If you start one, I'll come. I could do with getting out of this one right now.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Who wants to live in a world of beige?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    But aren't we all the same race, the human race?


    /said in Carl Sagan voice


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    But aren't we all the same race, the human race?


    /said in Carl Sagan voice
    and we all speak the universal language of love!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    YAY LOOK HOW PROGRESSIVE WE ALL ARE!

    :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    Gnobe wrote: »
    Western Europe really could have a beige majority within a short time frame, and then humanity will be moving closer together and potentially a one world government with no patriotism or nation states

    This will never happen till we get rid of religion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    Gnobe wrote: »
    It will only be a matter of time before we are all coffee coloured. The world is becoming mixed race and this is fantastic. I've always said this is the way the world is going and people were laughing at this prospect.

    You are surely some sort of Stromfront plant fishing for fawning responses to use against said posters.

    Honestly. Fcuk yeah, my favourite type looks wise is half Indian/ Mid East and half white....but a world without blondes, without women having a look specific to their region....you are really talking sh1te if you think its all great. My favourite type might be half Indian half white, but we are fed on what we dont see. Here in Australia, alot of local women are quite surprised by how mad Irish lads here are for the aforementioned, and Lebanese girls. The reason being that back home we saw little to none of these type of women growing up. Its a novelty. And lets be honest, most of the Polish etc women who came to Ireland were generally less attractive than Irish women, so it wasnt exactly mixing the market up looks wise. If every woman in our world looked mixed race the few blondes left would become the novelty. Its grand for peopole to get with who they want but neither would you want to see a world without stereotypically good looking women of x and y nationality simply ceasing to exist.
    . I firmly believe we will have a mixed race majority within 50-100 years without a shadow of a doubt in some european countries. This means no more BNP threat, or far right parties in europe etc.
    [
    Western Europe really could have a beige majority within a short time frame, and then humanity will be moving closer together and potentially a one world government with no patriotism or nation states. That would be fantastic! It sounds dreamy but in the current age of globalisation anythings possible.

    Alan Partridge. Except a leftist version.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    what the hell is wrong with being different?

    I like having whites, blacks, asians, latins and whatever else. if we all looked and spoke the same it'd be ****ing horrible.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    It's so utterly naive to think that humans require a difference in skin tone in order to form cliques and castes. Have you never heard of Rwanda (or Northern Ireland)?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 Mr Johnson


    It won't create one race, it'll just create lots of new races all slightly different colours who'll all hate each other. In other words we'll still be the same old b@stards on the inside whatever colour we are !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    Looks like we have a Beige Alert on our hands.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


    Bet a lot of it is Asian women marrying white men. A lot of Asian girls don't like marrying Asian men in certain parts of America. It's a stereotype just like Asian being bad drivers. But there is an element of truth to it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Gnobe wrote: »
    I firmly believe we will have a mixed race majority within 50-100 years [...] This means no more BNP threat, or far right parties in europe etc [...] then humanity will be moving closer together

    I don't think you've thought this through properly.
    and potentially a one world government with no patriotism or nation states. That would be fantastic! It sounds dreamy but in the current age of globalisation anythings possible.

    Yes, because then the sociopaths of the world can gravitate to one power centre to achieve their ambitions. I hate the idea.

    Just think. Everyone would be a coffee colour. Everyone would speak the same language. Everyone would wear the same clothes. Everything would be distributed equally.

    The ultimate goal would be if we could we could develop a bi-gendered hybrid human with both genitalia then we could all go and fuck ourselves.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 739 ✭✭✭papac





    the sociopaths of the world can gravitate to one power centre to achieve their ambitions. I hate the idea.

    +1
    the cnuts will always find a way to fcuk it up.

    The best thing about the inevitable increase in "race mixing" (hate the term-couldnn't think of a better one.)is that people will become healthier and stronger due to the expanded gene pool.
    Make the world one big Brazil I say. The football might be better.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 79 ✭✭Cybercubed


    Bet a lot of it is Asian women marrying white men. A lot of Asian girls don't like marrying Asian men in certain parts of America. It's a stereotype just like Asian being bad drivers. But there is an element of truth to it.

    Same could be said about black men.

    For a ethnicity that's supposed to be marginalised and racially segregated, 24% it's pretty darn high. That's 1 in 4 black men marrying interracially.

    I've never been to the US but you here all sorts of stories about how blacks are marginalised, US cities are very segregated. So this statistic comes as a shock to me.

    Black men don't seem to like black women very much.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭SharpshooterTom


    papac wrote: »
    +1
    Make the world one big Brazil I say. The football might be better.

    Yes this has to be humanity's dream. And we will get there through globalisation.

    I can envisage western europe being like Brazil eventually. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Gnobe wrote: »
    US Interracial marriages have hit an all time high.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102111/Interracial-marriage-U-S-hits-time-high-12-marrying-outside-race.html

    It will only be a matter of time before we are all coffee coloured. The world is becoming mixed race and this is fantastic. I've always said this is the way the world is going and people were laughing at this prospect.

    Ireland, Britain and Western Europe, with its increasing non-white immigration should follow suit at some point. I firmly believe we will have a mixed race majority within 50-100 years without a shadow of a doubt in some european countries. This means no more BNP threat, or far right parties in europe etc.

    Western Europe really could have a beige majority within a short time frame, and then humanity will be moving closer together and potentially a one world government with no patriotism or nation states. That would be fantastic! It sounds dreamy but in the current age of globalisation anythings possible.

    Very good and very pleased it's important to get rid of race and we're doing that, just hoping for those statistics to look favourably in many of the census across europe (including Ireland).

    This holds no appeal for me. Why would we want to live in a world where we are all basically a bunch of mongrels? I love the physical differences that race bring, I think that if we lose that definition, and that which makes us unique the world will be a far less interesting place to live in.

    And a 'one world government with no patriotism or nation states'?!?! Are you mad? This will never happen, and not for reasons of race, but because of economics and money and land, and more pragmatic and less fluffy things.

    I hate your new world order OP and I don't want to live in it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 566 ✭✭✭gobo99


    This is great news. We'll all be better at running and sh1t.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Getting away from the cops speed


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Cybercubed wrote: »
    Black men don't seem to like black women very much.

    Porn has taught me that black men love blonde women the most!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    Gnobe wrote: »
    Yes this has to be humanity's dream. And we will get there through globalisation.

    I can envisage western europe being like Brazil eventually. :)

    You also think Australia is a beacon of racial tolerance...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    So only "pure-bred" people can be racist, bigoted or capable of genocide?

    *chuckle*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Gnobe wrote: »
    Western Europe really could have a beige majority within a short time frame, and then humanity will be moving closer together and potentially a one world government with no patriotism or nation states. That would be fantastic! It sounds dreamy but in the current age of globalisation anythings possible.

    You have so many threads on this area

    Funny how those who most strongly claim not to be racist are obsessed with it and cannot stop talking about it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 79 ✭✭Cybercubed


    smash wrote: »
    Porn has taught me that black men love blonde women the most!

    I believe that possibly to be the case.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,013 ✭✭✭kincsem


    Disappointed this thread is not about hot aliens (the intergalactic travel type.)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Gnobe wrote: »
    I firmly believe we will have a mixed race majority within 50-100 years without a shadow of a doubt in some european countries. This means no more BNP threat, or far right parties in europe etc..

    So mixed-race people aren't racist? :confused: Or are you assuming that far right parties are the preserve of the whiteys? How boring would the world be if we were all the same colour? Not a world I'd want.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    The thoughts of not marrying or dating another person of another race to me alien I just simply would bare it absolutely no consideration. I don't even know why or how anyone could. A person is a person is a person.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    papac wrote: »
    +1
    the cnuts will always find a way to fcuk it up.

    The best thing about the inevitable increase in "race mixing" (hate the term-couldnn't think of a better one.)is that people will become healthier and stronger due to the expanded gene pool.

    It might sound callous but that's not really a good thing for humanity, long term.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    No matter how much ridin' is done. The ginger gene will never die.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    And a good thing too

    If there were no gingers then who would we bully?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    No matter how much ridin' is done. The ginger gene will never die.

    Phew thank you for the reassurance, gingers are hot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    It's so utterly naive to think that humans require a difference in skin tone in order to form cliques and castes. Have you never heard of Rwanda (or Northern Ireland)?

    protestants are more much more tanned to be fair:p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 609 ✭✭✭Dubit10


    But aren't we all the same race, the human race?
    /said in Carl Sagan voice
    I take it youve never been to finglas


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    Gnobe wrote: »
    It will only be a matter of time before we are all coffee coloured. The world is becoming mixed race and this is fantastic.
    And even then, not all married couples go on to have kids, so how does that make it a matter of time before we are all coffee coloured?
    smash wrote: »
    coffee with cream... blackish chicks are hot! I look forward to the future.
    Who wants to live in a world of beige?
    Just think. Everyone would be a coffee colour.
    Absolute shocking disregard for basic genetics here. This whole beige/tan/mocha skin colour evolution was dreamt up by some sociology professor as far as I know and not an evolutionary biologist.

    Notwithstanding the fact that there are several different alleles for skin colour and it is not simply a case of black + white = brown, in a randomly mating population (with no selective pressure towards any particular skin colour) I'd expect it to reach Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. So no homogenous 'mixing' would occur


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,861 ✭✭✭RobbieTheRobber


    This holds no appeal for me. Why would we want to live in a world where we are all basically a bunch of mongrels? I love the physical differences that race bring, I think that if we lose that definition, and that which makes us unique the world will be a far less interesting place to live in.

    What a disgusting way to describe any human!
    I really wont waste anymore of my time on a person who makes statements like that, what a disgusting comment and one which negatively defines you as person more than facial features or skin tone could to any other!


    :mad::mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Jimoslimos wrote: »
    Absolute shocking disregard for basic genetics here. This whole beige/tan/mocha skin colour evolution was dreamt up by some sociology professor as far as I know and not an evolutionary biologist.

    Did you leave your sense of humour at home today?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Fromthetrees


    I just have to point out, that this has nothing to do with Ireland. This is an American article about America, it is not in anyway applicable to Ireland today or in the near future, 95% of the Irish population today is white, 1% is black, you are living in delusional cuckoo land if anybody thinks that the population of Ireland will be coffee colored in 50-100 years, it simply will never happen at the current demographic.
    In America most Hispanics are considered white anyway as far as I know.
    Furthermore, if you actually want everyone to be mixed the government would have to force everyone to have children outside of their race for generations because if you have one black grandparent and 7 white than you will look white, and vice versa.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    smash wrote: »
    Did you leave your sense of humour at home today?
    Yeah, I'm in Buzz Killington mode today.:mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 669 ✭✭✭Fr D Maugire


    I love the way people automatically stereotype everyone based on their colour/race. In the US and indeed most countries with different racial groups, I have met black people who I would describe as more in line with the white stereotype and vice versa and that goes for all ethnic groups.

    Anyone remember that Asian/Indian skit show from back in the 90s, "Goodness gracious me", there was one skit with two Asian couples trying to oudo each other on who was more white/English. Obviously exaggerated for effect but they obvioulsy got the idea from somewhere.

    Its not just about ehtnic mixing but mixing of cultures also. My brother is married to a beautiful black girl who we adore and I have a good friend who is married to a white girl and they have two adorable kids. To me anyway its all good, cant be worse than useless white skangers bringing more children into the world;)


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