Before I even begin, I just want to clarify that I am thrilled that much of the prejudice associated with interracial dating has subsided, and that people are free to date, marry, and have children with whomever they want. I also don't want to be called a hypocrite, because I am a white person who has a thing for Indian guys (the country).
The "dislike" of interracial couples has more to do with my personal preferences. I have always been attracted to things that are "abnormal" or "rare", and naturally blond or red hair falls into this category as these traits are USUALLY only found in Caucasians, and even then rarely among adults. To a lesser extent, blue and green eyes are also rare. And whenever I am feeling intellectual, I read magazines like Nat Geo and find statements like "eventually the world will be predominantly brown" and "the melting pot is truly melting now". And it makes me super sad...
Don't get me wrong, I don't entirely believe such futuristic predictions (it's like saying the U.S. will be 100% obese by the year 2050- no group of people will ever be 100% anything) but it made me realize, as cultures continue to meld, as racism hopefully continues to abate, and as the language barrier may be lessening due to more people learning "the big three" (English, Spanish, and Chinese), we may never again live in a world where there are whole pockets of blue-eyed gingers. And that would make me sad (this post may have been spurred by the revelation that the movie Weasley twins were not real red heads :O !)
The "dislike" of interracial couples has more to do with my personal preferences. I have always been attracted to things that are "abnormal" or "rare", and naturally blond or red hair falls into this category as these traits are USUALLY only found in Caucasians, and even then rarely among adults. To a lesser extent, blue and green eyes are also rare. And whenever I am feeling intellectual, I read magazines like Nat Geo and find statements like "eventually the world will be predominantly brown" and "the melting pot is truly melting now". And it makes me super sad...
Don't get me wrong, I don't entirely believe such futuristic predictions (it's like saying the U.S. will be 100% obese by the year 2050- no group of people will ever be 100% anything) but it made me realize, as cultures continue to meld, as racism hopefully continues to abate, and as the language barrier may be lessening due to more people learning "the big three" (English, Spanish, and Chinese), we may never again live in a world where there are whole pockets of blue-eyed gingers. And that would make me sad (this post may have been spurred by the revelation that the movie Weasley twins were not real red heads :O !)
It has sometimes been claimed that red hair is one of the traits that comes from this, which would have made my point much stronger, but this is apparently not true.
Still, it's only thanks to interracial couples that anything of neanderthal DNA has been kept alive, and some of it conceivably adds to the diversity of human appearance.
1. Racism re-surges, and xenophobia becomes normal once again (not a fan of this option)
2. People start to engineer babies so that "rarer" genetic combinations occur more often (don't even want to open that can of worms, but again, not a fan of fashioning people to fit the parents ideal)
3. No one does anything and the world "becomes brown" to quote Nat Geo, with recessive traits surfacing rarely and some traits facing possible extinction
Of course I know I am being silly and I have no problem with actual people (I have two half Korean cousins) I was just wondering if anyone else knew/had thought about this situation. Guess not but then I always knew I was weird :(
I'm a person of European descent and I'm PROUD to say that I would simply never breed with a non-White person.