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Why are people so mad about interracial couples?
Where I live, it's a very diverse middle school. I'm in seventh grade, some kids started dating. There's a lot of kids from all races (white, black, hispanic, arab, asian,jewish, etc) so it's common. A jewish boy dating a white girl, a black girl dating a white guy, a white girl dating a black guy, asian dating a hispanic, hispanic girl dating a white guy, etc. No one cares! And a lot of people are mixed. Black with white, black with indian, asian with white. It's so stupid though people in other places are like "eeeewwww n-word lovers!1!1!1" why?
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Some are simply prejudiced! I understand what you feel. I have been mocked regularly for being in a mixed relationship. Some people can't handle seeing a pig and a frog together. But you know what? Their opinion doesn't matter. I wouldn't trade Kermit for the world!
Toodles,
Miss Piggy
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Children are born without prejudice. The prejudice they develop come from their parents, their extended family and their social circles.
There is really no reason for any prejudices for under our skin we are all the same. If cut we all bleed the same color. IF you need a blood transfusion the hospitals do not match the blood to the color of your skin only to your blood type which can come from any person of any color or nationality.
Some of the prejudices we have today are new and some are as old as mankind. Prejudices are born of our unwillingness to understand differences between us. In actuality just because someone's skin color is different thon mine or yours does not make them better or worse than us. It is all a perception based on a preconceived prejudice long ago born of unreasonable reasons.
Your question says to me that their is hope that your generation may finally do away with these prejudices and see all people as one. IN this I will support you in anyway I can and also say thank you. There is no reason for prejudices and like anything else it only takes one person to stand up for what's right to get the ball rolling. Stand up for what you believe in and others will follow.
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It's an example of a free society, in many ways. What you, or I or anyone else does, the lifestyle choices we make etc are (providing they are not illegal of course!) OUR decisions. The reactions, opinions, approval or otherwise etc of other individuals is THEIR choice/decision and we have no more power of sanction over their views than they have over ours. So if a mixed race couple are happy together they do not actually need the approval/permission of others, do they? Their lives, their business. If they are not happy, then other people approving and telling them it's a good thing won't make much difference either. In essence, we don't really have any say in what others think of our actions, and in essence it doesn't really matter anyway. If a society passed a law forbidding mixed race relationships by law, that would be very different matter, and very wrong, naturally. By counterpoint, if a sexually-active couple comprised a guy of say, 21 and a girl of 14 then it would be futile to claim that both parties are happy with the situation...so what is the problem? Since we DO have age-of-consent laws, and rightly so in the majority-opinion. I guess freedom of speech encompasses freedom of thought. And personally I would not like to live in a society with some sort of 'thought police'. Prividing someone's comments or actions do not directly incite civil disturbance, insurrection and/or acts of terrorism they are entitled to them. And we cannot actively discriminate in the workplace on terms of race/creed/disability/sexual orientation/gender. Again, there are some exceptions. We could not employ a disabled person as a firefighter, for instance.
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