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Tim Smith wrote: SWM looking for SWF Just curious, are inter-race marriages always an unintended end-effect of a non-romantic friendship? Because from the looks of things no white person seems to go for a colored person in the love-at-first-sight mode (and vice versa - means same for colored people). Seems to me that if at all white-black or white-asian couples come up, it came up when a really close friendship dissolved into love. Nish
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Nishant S wrote: Seems to me that if at all white-black or white-asian couples come up, it came up when a really close friendship dissolved into love. I find "non-WASP" (White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant) women considerably more attractive than most WASP women, and have had many "love-at-first-sight" experiences. Possibly, though, it's a cultural-locale thing. Let me give you an example. There's a very attractive woman at this Indian restaurant that frequent. Besides her natural beauty, she's very attractive because she's intelligent, witty, articulate, and has a vibrant "aura" about her. Besides her physical attractiveness, I think anyone that has the ability to move from her native land to my country, find a job, put herself through college, and work hard at fullfulling her career dreams (which is NOT being a waitress at an Indian restaurant, BTW, that's just a job she has over the summer) is someone that IS easy to fall in love with. What I'm trying to say is, "non-white" women in a predominantly white society are attractive because they are different and often have special qualities. I think the same can be said of white women in a non-white society, and can be generalized to anyone that "sticks out"--man or woman. Does that make sense? Marc Latest AAL Article My blog Join my forum!
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Tim Smith wrote: SWM looking for SWF Just curious, are inter-race marriages always an unintended end-effect of a non-romantic friendship? Because from the looks of things no white person seems to go for a colored person in the love-at-first-sight mode (and vice versa - means same for colored people). Seems to me that if at all white-black or white-asian couples come up, it came up when a really close friendship dissolved into love. Nish
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I don't know why you were voted down (and I guess I'll be too, but..) Guess cultural differences play a major part here. The mating ritual is complicated enough that even the small differences between "caucasians" can be a problem. Another issue is that in many places where colors mix, there's an clear social hierarchy that correlates with color. It's easy to say not to care what others say, but when you can mail-order a russian bride, people will assume you did for getting no other and she did for getting to germany - this does put pressure on a relationship. Third, people flock together in their groups. Culture, again.
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Nishant S wrote: Seems to me that if at all white-black or white-asian couples come up, it came up when a really close friendship dissolved into love. I find "non-WASP" (White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant) women considerably more attractive than most WASP women, and have had many "love-at-first-sight" experiences. Possibly, though, it's a cultural-locale thing. Let me give you an example. There's a very attractive woman at this Indian restaurant that frequent. Besides her natural beauty, she's very attractive because she's intelligent, witty, articulate, and has a vibrant "aura" about her. Besides her physical attractiveness, I think anyone that has the ability to move from her native land to my country, find a job, put herself through college, and work hard at fullfulling her career dreams (which is NOT being a waitress at an Indian restaurant, BTW, that's just a job she has over the summer) is someone that IS easy to fall in love with. What I'm trying to say is, "non-white" women in a predominantly white society are attractive because they are different and often have special qualities. I think the same can be said of white women in a non-white society, and can be generalized to anyone that "sticks out"--man or woman. Does that make sense? Marc Latest AAL Article My blog Join my forum!
Well said. Summed up what I was thinking, eh!
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Nishant S wrote: Seems to me that if at all white-black or white-asian couples come up, it came up when a really close friendship dissolved into love. I find "non-WASP" (White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant) women considerably more attractive than most WASP women, and have had many "love-at-first-sight" experiences. Possibly, though, it's a cultural-locale thing. Let me give you an example. There's a very attractive woman at this Indian restaurant that frequent. Besides her natural beauty, she's very attractive because she's intelligent, witty, articulate, and has a vibrant "aura" about her. Besides her physical attractiveness, I think anyone that has the ability to move from her native land to my country, find a job, put herself through college, and work hard at fullfulling her career dreams (which is NOT being a waitress at an Indian restaurant, BTW, that's just a job she has over the summer) is someone that IS easy to fall in love with. What I'm trying to say is, "non-white" women in a predominantly white society are attractive because they are different and often have special qualities. I think the same can be said of white women in a non-white society, and can be generalized to anyone that "sticks out"--man or woman. Does that make sense? Marc Latest AAL Article My blog Join my forum!
I was trying to come u p with this, but from the other side. Typically we "stick to our own" because of what is comfortable and is easier. It's not a rule, it's just a natural trait to become involved with a person you have a great deal in common with. This typically means same religion, or culture, or financial background, or whatever else you can think of. Obviously, there are countless cases where this doesn't apply. There are also plenty of people who date people from other backgrounds, who then end out marrying someone closer to their own upbringing.
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l a u r e n wrote: not true nish i speak from personal experience here Ah, nice to hear that. Its a basic requirement for world unification that after abput 40-50 generations just about everyone should be of mongrel blood :) Nish
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Nishant S wrote: Its a basic requirement for world unification that after abput 40-50 generations just about everyone should be of mongrel blood Amazingly the Chinese, Japanese and white descendants of missionary's managed to intergrate remarkably quickly in Hawaii. I wish SA would hurry up with that sort of intergration, so we could all just be South Africans. Considering it's only eyesight, one of 5 senses, which alerts us to the difference and causes so many people so much distress, it's really very sad. I'm sure there are people all over the world who feel the same way about their own nationalities. As for the mongrel blood - diversity is our greatest strength. I see this at my current job, where I'm a white woman on a team with a Nigerian (the boss) and a guy from Bangladesh. We all have our own ways of tackling the same problem, which is very beneficial. From a purely biological point of view, look at the problems pedigree dogs have, as opposed to the strength mongrel dogs have. Yep, I believe intergration of the races would be very beneficial.
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Thinking preferences are a bigger concern to me, rather than skin color.:rolleyes: SINTPM looking for SINTxF ;P age didn't stop me either in my first marriage. 13 years difference. It didn't last because of her difference in thinking preferences(and she had mental issues didn't help either). It makes communication harder than it needs to be on big issues in a long term relationship. Later,
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Tim Smith wrote: SWM looking for SWF Just curious, are inter-race marriages always an unintended end-effect of a non-romantic friendship? Because from the looks of things no white person seems to go for a colored person in the love-at-first-sight mode (and vice versa - means same for colored people). Seems to me that if at all white-black or white-asian couples come up, it came up when a really close friendship dissolved into love. Nish
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Hmmm, it might be that way in your small part of the world, but in the more civilized parts it's absolute not true! - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!" http://SourceLocker.net[^] SourceControl and DefectTracker Project. nsms@spyf.dk <- Spam Collecting ;)
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Nope. Women from other races/nationalities/suberbs are HOT! (except for English women of course)
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from a Natural History / Selection point of view, mates of different races should probably be the hottest / most attractive / schweet! there are - since their genetic predispositions, strengths, and natural resilience are the most different from yours then your children will have the MOST benefit from both gene trees. They will be the smartest and healtiest they possibly could be. GO FOR IT! ;-)
Codin` Carlos wrote: from a Natural History / Selection point of view, mates of different races should probably be the hottest / most attractive / schweet Not long ago, I saw a TV show about some scientific research on the attractiveness of "different" mates. They made the participants (of all races) wear a t-shirt for a day. Then they collected the t-shirts and stored them in a sealed plastic bag for a while. Later, they asked other participants to smell the t-shirts and rate the "attractiveness" of the body odour :wtf: They found that people were generally attracted to the odour of others with a different genetic makeup to their own, i.e. blue eyes attracted to brown eyes, short to tall, etc. etc. So the conclusion was that the tendency in the natural world is towards the greatest genetic diversity :~ As for the tendency in organised society.....? :confused:
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Short, wide. "Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything,
but you still can't help but smile when you see one
tumble down the stairs."I prefer much more this one :) (The skin color, as a selection criteria? :doh: )
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Hmmm, it might be that way in your small part of the world, but in the more civilized parts it's absolute not true! - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!" http://SourceLocker.net[^] SourceControl and DefectTracker Project. nsms@spyf.dk <- Spam Collecting ;)
Anders Molin wrote: Hmmm, it might be that way in your small part of the world, but in the more civilized parts it's absolute not true! For one thing, in my part of the world we dont have races - because there are no whites or blacks here. The only race here consists of brown colored Indians in various shades of brown. Second, its not fair to say that my country is uncivilized just because you dont like some of my comments. I admit its a poor country but poor and uncivilized are not comparable. Third, from the other posts in this thread its quite obvious that inter-racial relationships are still not fully accepted by everyone. Nish
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I don't know why you were voted down (and I guess I'll be too, but..) Guess cultural differences play a major part here. The mating ritual is complicated enough that even the small differences between "caucasians" can be a problem. Another issue is that in many places where colors mix, there's an clear social hierarchy that correlates with color. It's easy to say not to care what others say, but when you can mail-order a russian bride, people will assume you did for getting no other and she did for getting to germany - this does put pressure on a relationship. Third, people flock together in their groups. Culture, again.
"Dor säggsische Dialeggt eechnet sich wie keeen onderor für den Ausdrugg zäärdlischor Gefiehle."
sighist | Agile Programming | doxygenpeterchen wrote: I don't know why you were voted down (and I guess I'll be too, but..) Some people seem to feel my statement is flawed and incorrect. One of the replies I got was this :- Hmmm, it might be that way in your small part of the world, but in the more civilized parts it's absolute not true! The sentence implies that I am blinded by the ways of my *little* part of the world and that the rest of the world is more civilized. Means I come from an uncivilized place and thus have uncivilized ideas :-) Oh well. The funny thing is we dont have races in my part of the world. But then not everyone is aware of that I guess. My comments on inter-racial marriages came from what I saw around me during my short US-stay, what I see in movies, songs, TV series etc. peterchen wrote: Third, people flock together in their groups Yup, I agree :-) Nish
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peterchen wrote: I don't know why you were voted down (and I guess I'll be too, but..) Some people seem to feel my statement is flawed and incorrect. One of the replies I got was this :- Hmmm, it might be that way in your small part of the world, but in the more civilized parts it's absolute not true! The sentence implies that I am blinded by the ways of my *little* part of the world and that the rest of the world is more civilized. Means I come from an uncivilized place and thus have uncivilized ideas :-) Oh well. The funny thing is we dont have races in my part of the world. But then not everyone is aware of that I guess. My comments on inter-racial marriages came from what I saw around me during my short US-stay, what I see in movies, songs, TV series etc. peterchen wrote: Third, people flock together in their groups Yup, I agree :-) Nish
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Nishant S wrote: My comments on inter-racial marriages came from what I saw around me during my short US-stay, what I see in movies, songs, TV series etc Which always has been very surprising to me - with the US having better "mixture" than many countries. France and the netherlands come to mind - two countries I know where interracial relationships isn't something "special", and that mix quite well, but still it's rare.
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Codin` Carlos wrote: from a Natural History / Selection point of view, mates of different races should probably be the hottest / most attractive / schweet Not long ago, I saw a TV show about some scientific research on the attractiveness of "different" mates. They made the participants (of all races) wear a t-shirt for a day. Then they collected the t-shirts and stored them in a sealed plastic bag for a while. Later, they asked other participants to smell the t-shirts and rate the "attractiveness" of the body odour :wtf: They found that people were generally attracted to the odour of others with a different genetic makeup to their own, i.e. blue eyes attracted to brown eyes, short to tall, etc. etc. So the conclusion was that the tendency in the natural world is towards the greatest genetic diversity :~ As for the tendency in organised society.....? :confused:
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Nishant S wrote: Seems to me that if at all white-black or white-asian couples come up, it came up when a really close friendship dissolved into love. I find "non-WASP" (White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant) women considerably more attractive than most WASP women, and have had many "love-at-first-sight" experiences. Possibly, though, it's a cultural-locale thing. Let me give you an example. There's a very attractive woman at this Indian restaurant that frequent. Besides her natural beauty, she's very attractive because she's intelligent, witty, articulate, and has a vibrant "aura" about her. Besides her physical attractiveness, I think anyone that has the ability to move from her native land to my country, find a job, put herself through college, and work hard at fullfulling her career dreams (which is NOT being a waitress at an Indian restaurant, BTW, that's just a job she has over the summer) is someone that IS easy to fall in love with. What I'm trying to say is, "non-white" women in a predominantly white society are attractive because they are different and often have special qualities. I think the same can be said of white women in a non-white society, and can be generalized to anyone that "sticks out"--man or woman. Does that make sense? Marc Latest AAL Article My blog Join my forum!
Marc Clifton wrote: Does that make sense? Absolutely! I have always been attracted to women who have, in some way or the other, been different from the crowd. "It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something." -Ornette Coleman
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Anders Molin wrote: Hmmm, it might be that way in your small part of the world, but in the more civilized parts it's absolute not true! For one thing, in my part of the world we dont have races - because there are no whites or blacks here. The only race here consists of brown colored Indians in various shades of brown. Second, its not fair to say that my country is uncivilized just because you dont like some of my comments. I admit its a poor country but poor and uncivilized are not comparable. Third, from the other posts in this thread its quite obvious that inter-racial relationships are still not fully accepted by everyone. Nish
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Sometimes I wonder whether the difference between the 'civilized' part world and our 'uncivilized' part of the world is that most 'civilized' people find ways to deny things like like racism. Out here we have had people openly practising castism (which i find no less offensive than racism) and thus are considered uncivilized or less civilized than those who call blacks and browns 'colored' (or is it 'coloured'? oh hell they even spell the word differently!!) because it's "less offensive"(???) "It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something." -Ornette Coleman