Cultural Differences In Interracial Relationships

Although the “relation satisfaction isn’t significantly different for interracial partners”, the biggest challenge they face is finding acceptance from not only they people who they love, but in addition to the people that surround them. A close friend of mine, takes part in a interracial relationship, her and her partner have been together for four years now. Thanks to those men and women that sacrificed their lives so that we can all be equal and not discriminated, interracial couples still are, occasionally faced with challenging situation. Using my friend as an example, they faced many difficulties when their relationship began, most of their problems originated through their parents, who “didn’t think getting involved together would be a good decision” as if it was the parents decisions to chose who they were to love. It was hard for either of their families to accept each other, one was a hispanic family, while the other one as African-American family. Their cultures were so different, their “way of being and include expectations for social behavior or way of acting” were so different, and this is want the families feared. They thought that because their cultures were so unlike one another their relationship would not function. But because love conquers all, and we have the ability to learn, we are able to gain “personal growth by learning about [each others] cultural background”, and this is what my friend and her partner did. By learning about one another cultures and way of life, they were able to, not only communicate better with each others families, they were abel to participate in each others families activities, and be better accepted into each others …show more content…
Although their can be both positive and negative challenges within a interracial couple, it is important to remember that love is love, in any shape, form, or color, love is the only thing that