Have you dated someone of another race?

Probably not... but by race I think he means like not homosapien...

So I guess I could answer yes to this question. I once dated a eastern black crested gibbon. Though I guess that's not that much of a stretch. I have a friend who dated a black squirrel monkey. He said it was the most awkward sex he's ever had.

uhhh yes.. dated/had things for/made out with/ etc-ed with... many different cultures and ethnicities.

African/Jamaican

'Black' (cause i don't remember from where)/French-Canadian

Mexican/English/Canadian

Peruvian/French-Canadian

Columbian

Panamanian

English/Canadian

Serbian

Romanian

Irish

African/Russian <-- my favourite unattainable conquest

And I'm not trying to sound prejudice but I tend to prefer guys who are mixed with 'Black' and anything else and/or guys of Eastern European or Russian decendence. For the most part, as long as the guy is around 6'2, with athletic build that isn't too skinny, has good lips, big hands, smells nice... I'm all good. I have a weakness with blue or green eyes occasionally... in the same way that I have a weakness for dark skin lol.

As for pressure from friends or family... uh no.

I'm half latina and half irish.. my mother has never said anything about any of the guys i've brought home to meet her. She has always been supportive as long as I'm treated well and happy.

joe, you're bi?

I think TooBoku is right, a lot of the time for 'race' read 'culture'. As a lot of the other comments have alluded to - hispanic isn't, per se, a different race. as I understand it you have three distinct races: Negroid, Caucasoid, and Mongoloid - pertaining to (historically and geographically) Africa, Europe, and Asia/The Americas. But within these three very broad categories you have massive distinctions and overlaps. Hence a Korean is very different looking in comparison to Maori, but both would be grouped under Mongoloid. And where are the boundaries? Broadly speaking, an island in the Indian Ocean could lay claim to all three race 'types'...

But, 'culture' is (maybe) more tangible. That's not to discount race totally. I'm sure there are many horror stories of a man bringing home his girlfriend (for example) from, literally, the next street; but her being of a different skin tone - and it causing a HUGE problem. That is a knee-jerk response - and may well be detrimental - but if the families involved have lived a similar lifestyle and are culturally akin, then perhaps that relationship can flourish.

In Argentina we are a 'bastard' race. A mix of Mongoloid 'natives', Caucasoid explorers, invaders, and settlers, and Negroid slaves. But as for culture, like it or not, the Caucasoid won. Or to put it another way - the Spanish and Italians conquered and established the Catholic church. Culturally we are similar to those countries, share many racial features, but are very still different. In big Spanish cities, South Americans can still be looked down upon - maybe they are not 'pure'. I've heard people in Almeria, Spain, dismiss South Americans as "Aztecs" - completely ignoring the cultural and geographical heritage of that group.

Likewise - despite the long history of slavery in all of the Americas - a 'black' Argentinian was recently denied re-entry into the country because her passport must be fake. "Why?" she asked. Apparently because there are no native blacks in Argentina - only immigrants!?!?!

My mother is 'white', from Britain - so maybe I don't look so 'hispanic', whatever that may mean. But I do know that when I married an Australian girl it was not my dusky olive skin that caused any problems!

And she was a redhead..!

The problem there was culture. Or perhaps more pertinently: religion. We were in 'love' and married way too quickly in order to please her parents, and the Australian Immigration Board - but still it was not enough. There were arguments regarding geography and where we would live, how we would support ourselves - the normal stuff when you get married relatively young and idealistic. But most prevalent was religion: her family was Protestant, mine (nominally) Catholic - although I wasn't a 'believer'.

It came to a crux, only 2 months in, when her mother issued the ultimatum that if and when we should have kids did she (my wife): "...want them to got to heaven with us - or to hell with him!"

Needless to say I left the country soon after... alone.

This is not a diatribe against the Protestant church, or Australia - just a first-hand account in relation to the question. We were simply too different - in whatever context you cared to use - and that was insurmountable.

I'd be inclined, however, to suggest that it would be easier (on both our families) if I should bring home a black Catholic girl, than a half-hispanic Jewish girl. Colour, or race, may be an immediate signifier of 'difference', but ultimately the Tora would be more of a hindrance! (Please substitute whatever 'colour' or 'creed' - and it's accompanying text - that you want into this paragraph. I'd like to emphasize the fact that it is not singling out either or any, I'm simply using examples...)

But to answer the question directly: Yes... Several times!

joe, you're bi?

If my family doesn't want to accept the person I would love enough to marry... or the children that I have which should be out of that love.. then I guess, it would be their loss to be so ignorant enough to effect any relationship my family would have with them.

The love of a family should be unconditional and parents or family members who do not understand it are missing out on a lot that life has to offer. And if they are ignorant enough to miss a marriage of someone they should love, then I say its their loss and I would even think enough to elope if it would create enough of an uproar.. That day isn't really meant to be about about the family, its about the commitment for a bonding love two people have for each other and though it should be celebrated by and with the people who love them also, having family there isn't the most important key point to the bonding commitment of love.

I can understand to deal with the family members who always voice there opinions for the sake of what ever after that choice is made, but it is only opinions and whose to say a soul mate isn't someone that one or some family members arn't going to approve for many other reasons.. It's not the family that has to live with the general choices an individual makes in life anyway and its not the family who has really be in love with the person that they aren't marrying as there own spouse or soulmate.

When two people get married they break from the family they once knew and become a new family legacy.. to create their own legacy with their own family, and I think it should be with the soulmate that completes them regardless of... for the sake of the topic of this thread... race.

In Argentina we are a 'bastard' race. A mix of Mongoloid 'natives', Caucasoid explorers, invaders, and settlers, and Negroid slaves. But as for culture, like it or not, the Caucasoid won.

That was a joke.

I have to say Toob had me floored when I read his reply.. not what I expect from the other threads posted in...

If my family doesn't want to accept the person I would love enough to marry... or the children that I have which should be out of that love.. then I guess, it would be their loss to be so ignorant enough to effect any relationship my family would have with them.

The love of a family should be unconditional and parents or family members who do not understand it are missing out on a lot that life has to offer. And if they are ignorant enough to miss a marriage of someone they should love, then I say its their loss and I would even think enough to elope if it would create enough of an uproar.. That day isn't really meant to be about about the family, its about the commitment for a bonding love two people have for each other and though it should be celebrated by and with the people who love them also, having family there isn't the most important key point to the bonding commitment of love.

I can understand to deal with the family members who always voice there opinions for the sake of what ever after that choice is made, but it is only opinions and whose to say a soul mate isn't someone that one or some family members arn't going to approve for many other reasons.. It's not the family that has to live with the general choices an individual makes in life anyway and its not the family who has really be in love with the person that they aren't marrying as there own spouse or soulmate.

When two people get married they break from the family they once knew and become a new family legacy.. to create their own legacy with their own family, and I think it should be with the soulmate that completes them regardless of... for the sake of the topic of this thread... race.

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And besides, all my life I've been ridiculed for having dark skin with green eyes, but now she makes me see it ain't so bad.

. Just kidding .

But seriously, I really did see a really dark guy with blue eyes one time :| . Where do you think he was from?

Being of mixed etnicity, I don't even know what my own race is

Who cares what ethnicity the people you date have?

As long as they're hot :brows:

But to answer: no, I didn't. But I didn't date anyone yet so that doesn't mean anything

dark guy with green eyes? ummm .. Brazilian mixed with 15 other 'races' I have no clue.

I had a friend who is half african-american and half jewish (i'm not sure where his mom is from) and he has super green eyes but pale skin as well. He's a cutie.

And besides, all my life I've been ridiculed for having dark skin with green eyes, but now she makes me see it ain't so bad.

. Just kidding .

Who cares what ethnicity the people you date have?

As long as they're hot :brows:

Who cares what ethnicity the people you date have?

As long as they're hot :brows:

I agree!

They need to have a good personality, too.

Whaaat? It's true!

Love Conquers All.

Shouldn't matter what ethnicity you are.. unless you got fur or scales. Then, that's just creepy.

Whaaat? It's true!

Shouldn't matter what ethnicity you are.. unless you got fur or scales. Then, that's just creepy.