Benefits Of Interracial Marriage

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The world is changing. People’s views and beliefs are loosening their strict grip on what they use to consider right or wrong. Is interracial marriage beneficial to America? Interracial marriage has slowly started to become more common in America. Although it is still rare, people are beginning to agree with it. Interracial marriage is beginning to open up people’s eyes to look past color. People have done studies to show how to interact with others of a different race, how it has made a difference in people’s views, and how interracial dating has ultimately been beneficial to American society. Interracial marriages are changing attitudes towards people of different races being in intimate relationships with each other. Since the 1960’s interracial …show more content…
The statistics have made Americans change their minds about interracial marriage. By changing the way people of different races interact with each other, the statistics dealing with the approval of interracial marriage has increased nearly ten percent. It went from seventy-seven percent of people in 2007 agreeing to eighty-seven percent of Americans approving in 2013. Interracial marriage is beneficial to American society because it opens the mind to knowledge. Being in an interracial marriage can show you how other cultures, nationalities, and backgrounds work and what they are like. If more people interact with people of other races, the amount of racism found in this country could decrease significantly. Robin Landry says that being in an interracial relationship makes you “more sensitive to the need to put forth extra effort toward making newcomers to any situation feel welcomed and included no matter what their race”(Landry 2009). Interracial marriages help you deal with adversity. It allows you to be a stronger person because your beliefs get stronger. It allows other people to see that there isn’t as much of a difference they think. People in American society become more open-minded when seeing interracial marriages work out and

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