Today, about one in five newlyweds are intermarried, that is, they are racially diverse couples.
Source. Soon there will be no Americans with no close African relatives, and most Americans will have no clearcut racial identity. In that social environment, people guard their language and say nothing that could be interpreted as racist because the next person may be married to an African or have an African parent. Past are the times when Africans (or Irish or Jews or whatever) were a separate, identifiable group that could be slandered freely without danger of personally insulting someone nearby. One probable reason why American media is full of mixed-race images and propaganda is that the creative class itself is heavily mixed and try to justify their condition. And make it popular among the population and moderate the instinctively negative reaction it generates.
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ReplyDeleteDissimilar couples provoke negative reactions: A very tall woman and a short man, an old man kissing a young girl, a cripple with Miss Sweden, an African American with a stunning blonde... when they walk on the street, people turns to look at them and say ugly things.
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DeleteJ, you are revealing your racist cast of mind, because being a short man is a negative, and getting old is an unavoidable tragedy, while being black is neither bad nor tragic. Perhaps the true reason you'd be forgiving of someone saying ugly things about an African American male with a blond is that you believe in a racial hierarchy in which the blond should prefer someone more like you. The impulse to disparage the mixed couple in that case is born of sexual competition. Given that blonds tend to be a focus of Jewish male sexual obsession, don't you think a Semitic looking Jewish man with a blonde would also elicit ugly remarks from others? (Going by your reasoning, that is...my point is that whatever racial/ethnic hierarchy you believe in is also implicitly insulting to Jews, who tend to have a distinct look somewhat far removed from those of Northern Europeans, lol.)
Delete--black guy who believes in boycotting your apartheid nation
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