Interracial Couples

Interracial marriage is more than an ethical discussion. According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on the internet, interracial couple is a romantic couple or marriage in which the partners are of different races. The answer, if differences affect in multiracial couples is positive. There is a continuous debate among spouses related to the most serious issues of individual religion, nationality and education.

Let us have a first look in history. In the book entitled "Tell the court I love my wife-race, marriage and law, an American history» (New York Library of Congress, 2002, chapter 4, page 61) Walleinstein

Peter points that "interracial sex characterized as a forbidden fruit and interracial marriage as a match so inappropriate that it jeopardized the social order". Also he points that during the late 1800s and early 1900s white men were trying to find erotic pleasure from the prostitutes whom were black. The black individuals had neither opportunity in education, or in employment. On the other hand, white women (was) were forbidden in curbing men's "animal instinct" and as a result, African-American women delivered themselves into prostitution. And from thereafter, the story between races goes on; it was the first attraction between races.

Crossing the color line in a like manner, marrying a man or a woman from different race, has difficulties such as communication differences. First, the selection of the language they speak between them. This might be easy to discover if we certificate the place that they first met or under which circumstances, for example, states, campus, college, communities etc. New York, London and Los Angeles are cities where many multinational citizens from various countries, throughout the world live. As a result, people speak many different languages either in public or in their homes. This example emphasizes the diversity that these cities have from most countries. In the Internet site , in article called "Divorce effects on religious affiliation /Interracial Marriage", Greto Victor points that "according to the sociologists and the statisticians who study family demographics , those who are in intergroup relationships tend to live in areas where races and ethnic groups are mixed like south Florida But unfortunately, these multiethnic countries are the minority."

In short, cities like L.A, London and New York give the opportunity to people to develop relationships with other individuals whom native language is different from the language they speak .This challenge make opposites at first to attract!! So let's assume that opposites do attract and possibly start a long distance relationship, get a marital status and then notice the differences. These differences might be tremendous, but might also be extremely difficult. The couple decides whether or not it is threatened by the difficulties or if will continue their life together. In the book "Ethnic Los Angeles", Waldinger Roger (chapter 5, pages150-151).

presents graphs as a consequence of intergroup relations.

Population speaking a language other than English at home, by nativity and ethnicity, 1990

TOTAL

(%) US BORN

(%) IMMIGRANTS

BEFORE 1980 IMMIGRANTS

1980-90

UNITED STATES

ALL RESIDENTS 14 8 72 88

Asians &Pacific Islanders 73 35 87 95

Hispanics 78 66 95 96

L .A region

All residents 38 17 84 94

Asian &Pacific Islanders 79 41 89 96

Hispanics 81 63 95 96

Secondly, a different education means different ways of expression.

According to the Information Unit on Climate change "Climate change would impact different cultures in different ways. The sky and the weather do not have the same importance in all cultures. In Judeo-Christian cultures, the sky is strongly associated with the divine and with all-powerful and infinite cosmic powers. Animist and Hindu cultures, on the other hand, tend to associate their deities with creatures of the earth. These religious differences might make some cultures more sensitive than others to changes in the skies."(www.cs.ntu.edu.au on the article named "Climate change scenarios: the possible cultural and psychological impacts"). These differences create a "gap" among couples.

Thirdly, the educational problems as an affect of interracial marriage could be the time when the couple must select the offspring upbringing. Usually, kids gather their father's language and develop its manners according to their mother's beliefs. The feedback which kids take with one word is confusion. Sanchez Alex, a biracial person lived in San Francisco, grew up with a semi Spanish-semi Italian mother and his father is Philippine. He is a first generation American and points that, 'the place where I have grown up is America, my habits are European -thank my mum and the nationality is Philippine according my dad. That's first confused both me and my parents. This was the biggest problem that my parents ever overcome and finally got the decision to divorce. Today my mum is married an Italian and my father returned back to Manila."

In the second point, we discussed that multiracial couples might have differences in religion. Let us first give you a real example: Memi Vaught is a member of the Youth radio organization in the States ("religion and dating", 2005 on internet http://www.youthradio.org). She is a Catholic and her boyfriend is Muslim. She goes to church and he goes to mosque. She said that really, opposites do attract except the discussion about religion. She underlined that "you would think we were at war". Also Miles Donna in the book entitled "Bicultural Marriages "(source: soldiers, June 1989, article 31, page 49) says that "Hispanic-American couples often have religious differences that affect their views regarding family. The wife's view of marriage and family tends to be shaped by the Catholic Church. That is often not so for the men."

Then, a question that involves religion is where and with what way they will be married .This is one of the biggest dilemmas. Historically, after the French Revolution, law gave the opportunity to people from different religions to get