How did your parents raise you to think about inter-racial dating?

Do you teach your children the same?|||I grew up with parents who were firm believers in the fact that love doesn't come with a color chart dictating what does and doesn't go together and I intend on making sure my daughter believes the same thing. :o)|||They didn't raise me to think about it because it doesn't matter. It's not a subject worth giving thought. If a girl is cool and attractive it doesn't matter what color she is.|||Well, my parents didn't really say anything about it. I see everyone the same regardless of race. I will teach my kids the same thing.|||My parents taught me that love is love, no matter what, and I have every intention of teaching my future children the same. ;3|||eh one was for whatever i wanted, the other was viciously opposed. I'm open, love who you will, colors don't matter. I'm not about to tell her she can't love someone because of how they look.|||They are racist. They would not have been happy with me.





We have always told our kids that color/ race doesn't matter and we mean that. My daughter has a boyfriend right now of a different race.


*Of course- she's in middle school and she'll have a new bf in a month. but what the hey.|||I was never really taught about it, we never talked about it. My sister dated a black guy and no one ever said anything about it. I am teaching my kids I do not care as long as the person treats them good, takes care of them emotionally and I think that as long as the person is here in the country LEGALLY and is a well rounded person with a head on their shoulders it does not matter. I mean if you take away the skin we would all look the same. at least I think we all bleed red...... RIGHT????|||It never came up as something of importance one way or the other. From my parents or to my kids.





Then again, my parents were an interracial couple (Black and Mexican) and the father of my children is white.|||My parents encouraged me to only date within my ethnic community. I think it is very important not to inter-racial date because minorities are impossible to understand because they are vastly different and have absolutely nothing to do with other races...... in conclusion, bad ideaaa.|||My father doesn't have a problem with my husband being black. He has black friends. He only has an issue with my husband being Muslim. My mom's side of the family doesn't like blacks. Racism isn't allowed in Islam.|||I'm bi-racial, so all my dating was pretty much interracial. They didn't have teach anything, they led by example.|||Never came up. But we weren't raised to have any issue with it. I've been with a half black person and an Arabic person, and I'm white. Nobody says anything. I'll be like that with my kids. Principles over race.|||my parents didnt teach me anyway.they just told me date who you want.plus it wasnt like they really had to teach me anything because i am bi-racial(mom white,dad black).it just so happens that ive only dated black guys.because i am more attracted to them.i do not discriminate though.my boyfriend right now is black and we've been together for a year.=)





love who you want to love....just be happy with your life|||rebel, in the woods we were taught to love %26amp; hate equally.|||Sad to say my parents were against it. My Dad told me (when I was even too young to think about dating) that if I brought home someone who wasn't white, he would crucify me ... 0_O...





I would never teach my daughter such disgust. What makes a white man better than any other man. Nothing! I will support my daughter to date any man as long as he is good to her.|||My parents never really talked about inter-racial dating. They talked about racism with me but never dating. I guess it kinda was like 'common sense' to me. My parents taught me that people come in all shapes, sizes, and different colors but they are really no different from me the outside doesn't make them a good or bad person. There are some people that think that it matters but it really doesn't. I pretty much transferred that to dating. They are two people dating each other no different than two people with the same color skin dating. Some people think it's different that it matters but it doesn't.


If I have kids I'll teach them the same thing.|||I feel like my dad is on the bench about it (but, sure enough, he doesn't like ANY guy near me, regardless). He accepts it if I do, and he says he doesn't care but... I think he has his preferences. My mom is all for it, so are my sisters, they're supportive no matter what.|||My parents always raised me to be tolerant.





I would be a hypocrite if I had kids and taught them not to date interracially, because they'll probably be the product of one themselves lol. I'm not attracted to white guys(no offense to any on here :))|||My parents were against it completely. I'm sure my mother would've "come around" to the idea of it but my father never would've.





I haven't taught my children anything about inter-racial dating yet, they're way too young [5 %26amp; 2] but since their Aunt [my SIL] was in an inter-racial relationship that produced 2 bi-racial babies, I will never say anything ill of the situation. I love my nieces to pieces, but their father is a stereotypical deadbeat.





A person is a person, no matter what color they are. You fall in love with a person, not a color.|||My parents were for whatever made me happy and supported my choices. But, I was strongly cautioned that being with someone very different from yourself -- be it religiously, age-wise or ethnically -- can make it more difficult for a relationship to work when you are coming form two completely different places and points of reference.|||My parents have never mentioned anything to me about race, because it doesn't matter. However, I do feel like my mum would be disappointed if I married/dated a Muslim man. I think this is just because of the negative media attention they always get in Australia, especially that woman whose husband left her and took her children back to the Middle East and she never saw them again. She thinks that happens all the time now, even though I know it doesn't. She'd still respect my decision, and I know she would treat anyone I date the same, regardless of race once she meets them.





I will teach my children not to judge by a persons race, because its not significant at all. A persons race does not define their character, and it shouldn't be the reason we do/do not date someone.





**** To 'Going Through Infertility': don't say racism isn't allowed in Islam as though none of them are racist. There is racism in EVERY culture. Get off your high horse.