Negative Effects Of Interracial Relationships

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It is hard for interracial couples because of the things people say about their choice in a spouse. Everyone has the choice of their “other half” (spouse), whether it’s within the same culture and race or not, we have the freedom of choice. People claim when you marry interracially, you must be prepared for the consequences and “problems” that may arise between the two and their surroundings. We live in a multicultural society, but that’s only because we do not want to look bad or ethnocentric. This causes the idea of interracial marriage to feel irrelevant or abnormal. Mixed marriages are becoming a little more accepted and common today, but that is within a selection of people. Most expressed the opinion that interracial relationships …show more content…
Study shows that interracial relationships were becoming more accepted over time, mainly due to the openness of the younger generation. Society’s overall opinion on interracial relationships, the media places a negative impact on society’s view of this topic. Media attention on interracial relationships was viewed as an “agenda”. the media had motivations for the different ways interracial relationships are portrayed. Common movies like “Hitch” and “Save the Last Dance” were mentioned in media portrayal, But also the media may have a positive effect on how interracial relationships is portray but somewhere in there it’s going to be moments where bashing come-in even if it’s supposed to be a great thing. Most reactions to interracial relations in society today reflect an overall growing acceptance. Interracial couples do tend to draw more attention, but not necessarily negative attention …show more content…
Look at it like this, if the person you allow to influence everything that you do from birth till death but dies before you do or not even that maybe they moved, ask yourself how would you do things now? Will you love or even like what the person left behind for you, would you keep it or change it, if you decided to keep their way of thinking cool but if you decide to change it then you just wasted or lost years of your own life freedom and time; you do not get that back or at least not the same way. So why wasted precious time to hate on someone’s good findings and it has had no drastic negative impact on their relationship because most likely they are still going to say with each other if love holds them together. This subject, along with many others, simply ignores people who have issues with interracial relationships. It is seen now as ignorance, instead of the commonality to be against interracial relationships. Things you can do to prevent yourself from ignorance: First, I realized that an interracial relationship is essentially just another

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