Tuesday, June 9, 2009

CONS

Revenge: The WORST reason to get involved in an interracial relationship, and one of the most frequent reasons that people do (in the past anyway), is to get back at parents or other family members who are racist. This is the wrong reason to involve yourself with anyone...it makes the relationship empty and gives it a sense of obligation rather than love. It also leads to conflict and family breakdowns. Some friends may also not accept it, and using a person to get back at them is just plain wrong.Parents: Basically fitting into the 'acceptance' category, parents of either partner in the interracial relationship may have very reserved and 'tradtional' views on how and who their son/daughter should date. This is ESPECIALLY prevalent in black/'white interracial relationships, which are typically the most unaccepted and frowned upon type of interracial relationship. In most cases this simply won't be, but there are many parents out there who do not approve of their son or daughter dating someone of a different racial origin. It is sad, but many just do not grasp the fact that, in this day and age, freedom of choice and independence is stronger than it has ever been.The bottomline is, you can expect the same pros and cons in an interracial relationship that you would in a 'traditional' relationship. Religion is just as much of an issue for some people as race. Some people have no problem at all. Overall, do what YOU want to do...not what someone else wants you to do, and not what completel strangers expect of you. Interracial relationships can be a wonderful thing for both people, and you shouldn't let the opinions of others be a determining factor in what you decide.On a personal note...people who look down on interracial relationships solely based on origin make me sick.

THE PROS AND CONS

This project made me understand how much these interracial relationships can be a touchy subject. Most people don’t know that there are far many more pros than there are cons, but there are problems that come up. I come from an interracial family my mother is African American and my father is Asian. I really didn’t know nothing about half of the things that goes on in interracial marriages because my father is back in China. I never thought about it being so many different topics and it being such a big topic most people talk about.

Here are some of the pros and cons:Culture: Dating out the your race you can learn a lot about that person’s traditions and customs, assuming they even observe them. This can be very interesting.Family History: Similar to culture, it is always very interesting to hear about how someone's family came to America or whatever country you may be living in. This can lead to deep discussion with both the person and the person's parents/family.Exotic: The overall feeling of being with someone of a different racial origin can be very appealing. In many cases it feels like something completely new and fresh, and you get to experience new things, such as culture and history as I already mentioned, among other things.In terms of other Pros, you can basically look forward to whatever else you enjoy in a relationship with a new person. I did research in I found this interesting store somwone wrote coming from an interracial relationship and it’s the best thing that happen to them. “Being white, I prefer Asian women, and being in my first interracial relationship in my entire life, I am very happy and love the new experience...its a relatively young relationship at this point but probably the best one I've ever had. However, there are problems that can occur within an interracial relationship that do not necessarily apply to the two people involved.”

This is someone who disagrees with interracial marriages Acceptance: It’s disgusting, but some people just can't accept the fact that people of different races can be together. I personally don't understand it, but for any of us born post 1960, it can be especially troublesome. The parents of our generation, particularly of those of us born within the past 2 or 3 decades (I was born in 1982 myself), we may have to deal with a parent or parents who look down on interracial relationships. Unfortunately they were young at a time where race riots and racial hatred was at its all time high, and that has influenced MANY people of the older generation. There are many people of that generation who accept it as well...you can't hold grudges for things that didn't even affect you, but some people are so reserved and traditionalist that the idea of a mixed couple is disturbing to them. It is best to ignore those types of people.

BIRACIAL CHILD

In the United States is a very big multicultural society. Interacting among different ethnic groups became more common nowadays. Doing the research and the results I received the population of interracial marriages and partnerships have slowly grown. The reports that did a research had discovered that there were at least 900,000 biracial couples in the United States. These relationships are producing an increasing number of biracial offspring.
A biracial child is operationally defined as one whose biological parents are of different racial groups. For example the children of parents who are African American and Asian, Cuban and European American, Puerto Rican and Native American. During the 1990’s the number of children born from interracial marriages were ranging from 500,000 to 5,000,000.
Doing the research of biracial children is on of the most focus topic. The biracial children that were from African American and European American marriages was the most researched. After reading what some people have studied about this topic made me become more interested about being a biracial child. This is a very good topic I learned a lot from doing this project I am glad I pick this topic to do.

http://www.afroromance.com/blog/effects-of-interracial-marriages-on-children.htm
http://www.zimbio.com/Interracial+Marriage+Culture/articles/23/Interracial+Marriages+Effects+Children

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Society and Family

The most common outward factors impacting intercultural relationships and marriages are the approval of the family and the society in which the couple lives. Sometimes the families of the partners display denial, opposition, conflict and lack of approval for their kins partner. Specific issues regarding the family including generational gaps in ideology and how the wedding will be held which ties into how tradition will or will not be practiced. Many intercultural couples report conflict arising over issues of how to carry out child raising and religious worship as well. Dealing with racism from outside sources is also a common area of possible conflict. Currently 70% of the Untied States population has no problem with inter cultural relationships. Reasonably, 30% have meaning protest to interpairings. This is unlike of the fact that 40% of Americans have dated someone outside of their ethnic group.









Sunday, May 3, 2009

Loving v. Virginia

This case presents a basic question never addressed by this court whether a statutory plan accepted by the State of Virginia to prevent marriages between persons exclusively on the basis of racial category break the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the 14th Amendment. For reasons which seem to us to reflect the central meaning of those nautral order they close that these laws can't stand generally with the 14th Amendment.

In June 1958 two residents of Virginia, Mildred Jeter a Black woman and Richard Loving a white man were married in the District of Columbia conformable to its laws. Shortly after their marriage the Lovings returned to Virginia and accepted their married place in Caroline County. At the October Term 1958 of the Circuit Court of Caroline County a grand jury issued an attack charging the Lovings with violating Virginia's ban on interracial marriages. On January 6,in the late 1990's the Lovings pleaded guilty to the charge and were sentenced to one year in jail however the trial judge suspended the sentence for a period of 25 years on the condition that the Lovings leave the State and not return to Virginia together for 25 years. He stated in an opinion that: "Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And, but for the interference with his arrangement, there would be no cause for such marriage. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix."


http://supreme.justia.com/us/388/1/case.html
http://berrystreetbeacon.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/loving-v-virginia-the-supreme-court-and-interracial-marriage/

interracial marriage in France

During World War 1, there were 135,000 soldiers from British India a large number of soldiers from French North African and 20,000 cleaners from South African who served in France. Alot of the French male population had gone to war leaving behind a overrun of French females many of whom shaped interracial relationships with non white soldiers,mainly Indian and North African. British and French authorities allowed foreign Muslim soldiers to intermarry with local French females on the basis of Islamic law which allows marriage between Muslim males and Christian females. On the other hand Hindu soldiers in France were limited from intermarriage on the basis of the Indian caste system.
According to France's 1999 Census, 38% and 34% of male and female married immigrants respectively are intermarried. The highest intermarriate rate was for European immigrants mainly Spanish and Italian nearly 50% of whom have had intermarriages. 30% of North African immigrants and 20% of Portuguese immigrants have also had intermarriages. The lowest intermarriage rate was for Turkish immigrants, with 14% for married males and 4% for married females.

Cultural Background

The vary ages of include peaking in the creation seperate have straightly play large role in how mixed ethnic couples are beholded in American group. Interracial marriages have normally been stressed through two points of view in the United States Egalitarianism and Cultural conservatism. Egalitarianism's view of interracial marriage is acceptance of the wonder, while keep view interracial marriage as outlaw and as group unwanted. Egalitarian viewpoints often are held by younger generations however older generations have a native influence on the views of the former. Gurung and Duong in the late 1990's compiled a study relating to mixed ethnic relationships and same ethnic relationships closing that individuals part of  mixed ethnic relations often do not view themselves unlike from same ethnic couples.

Facts

White Americans are the least likely to marry interracially, although in perfect terms white Americans are affected in interracial marriages more than any other racial group. 1.9% of married white American women and 2.2% of married white American men have a non-white American spouse. 1.0% of married white American men are married to an Asian American woman, and 1.0% of married white American women are married to a man showed as other.
3.7% of married African American women and 8.4% of married African American men have a non African American spouse. 6.6% of married African American men and 2.8% of married African American women have a white American spouse. Only 0.1% of married African American women are married to an Asian American man showing the least image married group.
There is a famous unlikeness in the rates of  tribe by Asian American males and females. Only 25% of Asian American White American marriages contains an Asian American male and white American female, and only 15% of Asian American African American marriages involve an Asian American male and a African American female. 19.5% of married Asian American women and 7.2% of married Asian American men have a non Asian American spouse.
88% of native born White Hispanic males are married to White Hispanic females. In terms of out marriage Hispanic males who link as White have non Hispanic wives more often than other Hispanic men. U.S born White women of non Hispanic tradition are more likeley to marry Hispanic who identified as some other race 19% than White Hispanic women 2%.

Immigrants

Racial marriage is much stronger for immigrants as equaled to natives. Immigrants of African groups are 4.9 times more likely than African Americans to marry within their race. Also immigrants of African descent have the highest rates of marriage of immigrants. African immigrants are much more likely to marry other same race immigrants and African Americans than to out marry based on the race. Native born Caucasian Americans are also 1.6 times more likely to marry a native born African American than an immigrant of African family. Female immigrants of African descent are more likely to marry native born Caucasians than are their male mates.

Education

In 1980, the numbers were as follows African American males without a high-school diploma shared in marriage at 96.5% for those who received a high-school diploma, 95.6% for those with a college degree and above the percentage of marriage were 94.0%. Therefore the total change in percentage among African American men with a college degree was just 2.5%. The rates for African American women changed very little with different educational levels. For the African American woman who had not received a high school diploma the rate was 98.7% high school diploma was 98.6% with some college it was 98.2%, and college degree or higher 98.5%. During this time there was a big increase in marriages between Caucasians and African Americans keeping that African Americans are most likely to marry Caucasians over other groups.

The 1990 results show that rates of marriage dropped for both males and females althrough more for the African American male. In 1990 an African American male with a college degree and more was sharing in marriage at 90.4% for an African American female with the same educational level 96.4%. The results for the turn of separate at higher educational accomplishment levels to start less in marriage over the 10 year period were similar across races including Caucasians, Hispanics, and Asian Americans.

Native American and African American

Interracial groups between Amercan Indians in Latin America is somewhat unremarkable and there is a relatively large population of mixed African Amerindian people in Latin America normally called "Zambos" or "Cafusos". In the United States and Canada interracial groups between American Indians and African Americans has also been high throughout the 18th through early 20th century attending in most African Americans being a cause American Indian.

Intermarriage between African slaves and Native Americans began happening in the early 1600s. In 1622 Native Americans out numbered the European politics of Jamestown. They killed the Europeans but brought the African slaves as captives back to their communities, easily conform them.  It is a common misunderstanding that people of African and Native American family are descendents of only the five cultured tribes. However, interracial relationships between African Americans and many other tribes happened on the coastal states of the United States. Some colonial advertisements for runaway slaves made control sopport to the integration of African Americans into the Native American communities. 

Native American and White

The interracial differnce among between genders Native Americans is low. In the 1990's the US Census which only counts natural people with U.S government remembered ethic association. Native American women intermarried White Americans 2% more than Native American men married European American women. According to the statments in Latin America and to a lesser step in the United States Native Americans have married out at a high rate. Many countries in Latin America have large Mestizo populations in many cases mestizos are the largest ethnic group in their specfic countries.

Black and Asian


With African Americans and Asian Americans, the ratios are even further unbalanced, with 59.8% more Asian female African male marriages than Asian male African female marriages. However the people estimated that Asian Americans of the 1.5 generation and of the five largest Asian American ethnic groups had African American male & Asian American female marriages 27.2% more than Asian American male & African American female relationships. Even though the different between African American and Asian American interracial marriages by gender is high agree to the 2000 US Census, the total numbers of Asian American & African American interracial marriages are low, numbering only 0.22% percent for Asian American male marriages and 1.30% percent of Asian female marriages totally shared by the recent current of Asian immigrants.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Sources


http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/ms-la/tabms-3.txt


http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0922160.html


http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3934/is_200212/ai_n9158844/


Native American and Asian

Filipino Americans have often married Native American and Alaskan Native American people. During the 17th century, when Filipinos were under Spanish rule the Spanish government guarantees a Filipino trade between the Philippines and the Americas. When the Mexicans rebelled against the Spanish, the Filipinos first escaped into Mexico, then traveled to Louisiana, where the only Filipinos married Native American women. In the 1920s, Filipino American communities of workers also grew in Alaska, and Filipino American men married Alaskan Native women. On the west coast, Filipino Americans married Native American women in Bainbridge Island, Washington. In the 1920's Japanese men married Eskimo women around western Alaska. During the 1930's, there was relatively common intermarriage between Japanese Americans and Cherokee Indians in California, since these ethnic groups were announced or working as farm worker and they worked together.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Asian and white

Marriages between White Americans and Asian Americans are increasingly common for both genders in the United States however marriages between Asian women and White men continue to outnumber the opposite coupling by almost 3 to 1. In 1990 about 69% of married Asian women around the ages 18 and 30 were married to Asian men, while 25% had White husbands. Back in 2006 41% of Asian American-born women were registered as having White husbands while 50% were married to Asian American men. A guy by the name L. Shinagawa found the ratio likely to expand wherever an Asian population is the largest and most started agreeing to a 1990 study in San Francois. Asian women married partners of European descent at four times the rate Asian men did. The research in Sacramento the ratio was found to be 8 to 1. I had found out that back in 1998 Washington Post article states 36% of young Asian Pacific American men born in the United States married White women, and 45% of U.S. born Asian Pacific American women took White husbands during the year of publication. According to those who studied (Jenifer L. Bratter and Rosalind B. King) they published on the Education Resources Information Center White female-Asian male couples however are more prone to divorced than Asian female White male couples.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Black and White




Although mixed-race mates have increased, the U.S. still shows unlikeness between African American male and African American female endogamy statistics. Back in the 1990’s reports that 17.6% of African American marriages occur with White American. African American men are 2.5 times more likely to be married to white American women than African American women to white American men. In the 2006, 286,000 African American male to white American female and 117,000 white American male to African American female marriages were recorded. According to the Education Resources Information Center, White female/Black male couples are also more prone to divorce than White male/Black female couples in 2007, 4.6% of married African Americans were married to a white American partner, and 0.4% of married white Americans were married to an African Americans.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

intro

Interracial romance has been a point of difficulty in America since the first English settlers found colonies in the 17th century. Back in 1664 Maryland banned interracial marriage just to questions over whether the offspring of a black slave and a white person would be considered a free person or property. In following years, many other states like Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and South Carolina started a law called “anti miscegenation laws” which banned interracial marriage. In 1691 Virginia outlawed interracial couples and labeled their children as “that abominable mixture and spurious issue.” When slavery was canceled by the 13th Amendment in 1865, many southern states started what were known as the “Black Codes.” In addition to stripping freed slaves of most of their just got rights, these codes continued the ban of marriage between whites and blacks. This was based on the commonly held notion that Africans and Native Americans as well were common races and interbreeding would violate the white gene pool. When Congress tried to override the “Black Codes” by issuing a series of laws from 1866 to 1875 the Supreme Court hold most of the law void and upheld the southern states right to ban interracial marriage.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Interracial Marriage the meaning and why i choose the topic

Interracial marriage or relationships happen when two people from different racial groups marry and often have multiracial children. Another term is exogamy which means the custom of marrying outside the tribe, family, clan, or other social unit. For example the first case of interracial marriage is Loving v. Virginia.
I choose this topic for my project because I don’t really know much about interracial marriage or relationships. It would be interesting and I will also learn from it to. Picking this topic will help me understand what people had to go thought when interracial relationships weren’t allowed. What was the struggle like, how did they get treated and what was the effect on children coming from that family.