Interracial Relationships

Blisterman · 09-03-2010 05:03PM #1

Just thought I'd get a conversation going, and hear people's thoughts on this topic.

I'm white and I've recently started going out with a black girl, from Bermuda, and it's unreal the number of comments we get from random people, white and black. Either passing on the street or shouted from cars. At least once every time we're out together in public. Neither of us give a crap really, but I'm still surprised at people's reactions in this day and age. Is it really that big a deal?

And is there something particularly taboo about the black/white combination? I've had girlfriends of Indian and Chinese descent, and nobody ever seemed to take any notice.

Would you mind if your son or daughter dated someone of a different race?

OutlawPete · 09-03-2010 05:06PM

If I had a son, or mate who pulled a hawt black or Asian girl, be high fiving him ..

o/

G_R · 09-03-2010 05:07PM

Once you've gone black, you never go back so I'm told.

Dyr · 09-03-2010 05:07PM

Hopefully the pornographic industry's sterling efforts in this field will eventually break down such prejudices

alwaysadub · 09-03-2010 05:08PM

Blisterman wrote: »

Just thought I'd get a conversation going, and hear people's thoughts on this topic.

I'm white and I've recently started going out with a black girl, from Bermuda, and it's unreal the number of comments we get from random people, white and black. Either passing on the street or shouted from cars. At least once every time we're out together in public. Neither of us give a crap really, but I'm still surprised at people's reactions in this day and age. Is it really that big a deal?

And is there something particularly taboo about the black/white combination? I've had girlfriends of Indian and Chinese descent, and nobody ever seemed to take any notice.

Would you mind if your son or daughter dated someone of a different race?

No wouldn't bother me in the slightest-my nephew has started dating someone of a different race and none of us would have any problems with it at all. None of his friends have any problems with it either, it's a part of life for his generation now.
Didn't think that type of thing still went on tbh

Herb Powell · 09-03-2010 05:09PM

It's something people aren't use to seeing

My name is URL · 09-03-2010 05:09PM

There's a lot of racial threads in AH today.. =/

I don't see the big deal with mixed couples myself.. it's not as if our races are mixing to the extent where we'll become completely bred out of existence like..

saying each to their own probably wouldn't sound right in a thread like this =p

IrishManSaipan · 09-03-2010 05:10PM

Who gives a bollocks what two consenting adults get upto?

lizardfudge · 09-03-2010 05:11PM

You get the same thing with mixed species couples...

People are so small minded!

IrishManSaipan · 09-03-2010 05:11PM

OutlawPete wrote: »

If I had a son, or mate who pulled a hawt black or Asian girl, be high fiving him .. o/

Fook that, send 'em to samba lessons so he can get in with the latinos!:cool:

Biggins · 09-03-2010 05:12PM

Blisterman wrote: »

...Would you mind if your son or daughter dated someone of a different race?

Honestly - wouldn't bother me.
Again being honest, when my 3 girls are old enough, I'll be telling the new boyfriends (irrespective of colour & creed) that if they mis-behave, I'll be kicking backside as a watching dad would do!

tfitzgerald · 09-03-2010 05:12PM

we were all made a different color for a reason we should stick to our own kind

DrumSteve · 09-03-2010 05:13PM

Pics or GTFO...?

(had to be said i suppose)

The Saint · 09-03-2010 05:13PM

As the wise people at Skittles once said "taste (fornicate with) the rainbow".

DrumSteve · 09-03-2010 05:14PM

tfitzgerald wrote: »

we were all made a different color for a reason we should stick to our own kind

im not a fan of double posting but you sir just made the most retarded statement ive heard all day.

aDeener · 09-03-2010 05:14PM

I personally wouldnt go out with a black woman, from what ive seen strutting their stuff down the streets here is hideously ugly and not for me.

wouldnt have any issues with others doing so, none of my business

Hagar · 09-03-2010 05:14PM

It can be hard on the kids.

On the colour wheel of race only go one shade in either direction to avoid disaster.

lizardfudge · 09-03-2010 05:15PM

tfitzgerald wrote: »

we were all made a different color for a reason we should stick to our own kind

Why not go the whole hog and stick to your own family too?

Keano · 09-03-2010 05:15PM

tfitzgerald wrote: »

we were all made a different color for a reason we should stick to our own kind

TROLL ALERT!

billymitchell · 09-03-2010 05:16PM

Don't have a son or daughter. But if I had, as long as they were happy and the other person wasn't an ass, I cant see what difference it makes what colour their skin was.

OutlawPete · 09-03-2010 05:16PM

The thing is, it's all brand new for the Irish to be this cosmopolitan all of a sudden.

If I see and Caucasian Irish Guy or Girl with someone who isn't, then you will look just out of curiosity. Maybe I'll think: "Damn, I'm gonna pull me a hot Black girl one of these days.."

It's not so long ago that Lenny Henry was on the Late Late laughing cause Gay asked him if he felt relaxed here and he said something like: "Sure I'm the only Black guy in Dublin"

Phil Lynott and Paul McGrath got a lot of racial abuse growing up in Dublin also.

Hazys · 09-03-2010 05:18PM

tfitzgerald wrote: »

we were all made a different color for a reason we should stick to our own kind

So should blonde haired people should only go out with blonde haired people and brunettes should only go out with brunettes? Heaven forbid a ginger mixes with a blonde :eek:

I'd never get invloved in an interrace relationship if the girl was ugly...but most defly get in one if the girl was hawt!

Hazys · 09-03-2010 05:22PM

aDeener wrote: »

I personally wouldnt go out with a black woman, from what ive seen strutting their stuff down the streets here is hideously ugly and not for me.

wouldnt have any issues with others doing so, none of my business

Lol black women strutting their stuff on the street(s) of Buttevant!

Haha Buttevant is some sh1thole, made my life hell for a year travelling from Cork to Galway. I love the racist country view point btw

Millie · 09-03-2010 05:23PM

We're all pink on the inside!

smokingman · 09-03-2010 05:23PM

Personally, I'd actively encourage it with my son - I want the family name going for eternity and the only way of doing that is to introduce new genes and fine tune the mix

pickarooney · 09-03-2010 05:25PM

lizardfudge wrote: »

Why not go the whole hog and stick to your own family too?

Two Deliverance references in one sentence. Hats off!

mikom · 09-03-2010 05:26PM

Blisterman wrote: »

I'm white and I've recently started going out with a black girl, from Bermuda,

Have you seen her triangle yet?

fontanalis · 09-03-2010 05:31PM

tfitzgerald wrote: »

we were all made a different color for a reason we should stick to our own kind

Made, sounds like you believed the six billion people in the world today are decended from a family that walked off Noahs Ark a few thousand years ago.
Dark skin is an evolutionary trait to help defend against ultra violet light.
Also how do people define race?

Interesting article that shows race is purely visual, read the third paragraphe below the pictures.
http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2010/02/what_average_genetic_variation.php

Raekwon · 09-03-2010 05:34PM

I have no issues with interracial relationships infact I actually wouldn't mind having a black girlfriend, I've seen some absolute stunners in places like London, Paris & New York, but I'm not sure if I'd date a girl from African TBH, they seems very hostile/rude and would probably intimidate the shít out of me

Since we are on this subject, I was wondering am I the only one to notice that some working class girls have an absolute fixation with black guys? I've always found that really odd

Raekwon · 09-03-2010 05:35PM

Bambi wrote: »

Hopefully the pornographic industry's sterling efforts in this field will eventually break down such prejudices

Blacks on Blondes

tfitzgerald · 09-03-2010 05:35PM

DrumSteve wrote: »

im not a fan of double posting but you sir just made the most retarded statement ive heard all day.

no sir i have just given my honest opinion which i am entitled to but to suggest that i should have pics to prove my opinion really is a bit r*****ed sorry i dont think thats a nice word lets just say its a bit slow

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