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- From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
- Subject: Re: Interracial Relationships
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.141620.16556@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
- Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
- References: <1993Jan15.205636.21925@athena.mit.edu> <297@cnmhnet.UUCP> <1993Jan20.202749.5827@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:16:20 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.202749.5827@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
- >In article <297@cnmhnet.UUCP> keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard) writes:
- >>
- >>I know you're probably referring to black-white relationships
- >>when you refer to interracial relationships.
- >[...]
- >>On a recent "Donahue", the topic was interracial relationships,
- >>and all couples were black-white, with the exception being a
- >>Filipina girl. But who were all the questions directed to?
- >>The black-white couples. Donahue even apologized to the
- >>Filipina, cause she wasn't even addressed by the audience.
- >>In other words, it was as thought
- >>she wasn't considered to be an "interracial". Anyway, just
- >>my .02 cents worth.
-
- >Sounds like a good sign to me--maybe one of these days, if we're lucky,
- >people won't even think of black-white as interracial....
-
- When this subject comes up, many people tend to emphasize the fact that
- skin color shouldn't be any sort of barrier to a relationship; that
- _race_ shouldn't be a barrier. I think that the real underlying
- difficulties in interracial relationships isn't the fact that they're
- inter_racial_, so much as they're inter_cultural_. The compatability of
- the values and ideals of one cultural with another will tend to dominate
- the success or failure of the relationship.
-
- I suspect that the Donahue audience had less to say to the Fillipina
- woman because the issue of interracial relationships in her situation
- didn't cause the same kind of deep-seated emotional charge that
- black-white relationships bring to the surface. There's such an
- extensive history of volatile relations between blacks and whites in
- this country that many still find such interracial relationships tense
- at best.
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- Gary Schroeder
- schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
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