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Interracial relationships have become an increasingly familiar presence in pop culture. But, racial borders still exist. Kona Shen is herself the product of a mixed marriage- her father is Chinese and her mother is white. She brings us this story of how racial barriers to dating are breaking down.
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Interracial relationships have become an increasingly familiar presence in pop culture. But, racial borders still exist. Kona Shen is herself the product of a mixed marriage- her father is Chinese and her mother is white. She brings us this story of how racial barriers to dating are breaking down.
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Review of Interracial DatingKona talks about interracial relationships and how people view them. She lists some very interesting statistics about which ethnic groups are more likely to date people outside of their group. I guess I'm incredibly naive, but I didn't realize that there are so many people who actually wouldn't date a person who wasn't of their ethnicity. The good news is that more people are becoming more accepting of interracial relationships. As she quotes in her piece, the number of such marriages has quadrupled since 1970. Her piece isn't groundbreaking, but it's still nice to listen to. She talks about how for a long time her grandfather wouldn't talk to her because she's the child of an interracial couple and mentions that eventually he came around. It would have been interesting to hear him speak about how that happened and how he feels about interracial relationships now. |
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Felix Poleheptewa
Posted on April 18, 2007 at 12:34 PM | Permalink
Review of Interracial Dating
This piece is very straight to the point about interracial dating, other teens where asked on how they feel on interracial dating. They said that it doesn't bother them at all, other said that it is really hard to accepted interracial dating. The reason why I rate it disturbing is that most people feel that only whites should be with whites and blacks should be with blacks. Right there is a discrimination against other races and collor. This may be a problem among teens today, but other teens are comfortable around their friends who have a white or latino girlfriend or boyfriend.