Interracial Children In American Society

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American Society is one of the societies that have a large number of population diversity that have different racial groups, ethnicity, culture and background. Therefore, it is expected to have a large number of mixed-race marriages, but in reality, what would happen if two people from a different racial group, each from a single parents race, decided to cross the color line of their racial group and marry? What would happen if an Arab-American man decided to marry a Latino-American woman or vice versa? The result will be an Arab-Latino-American child who will has internal and external fights with different societies such as the American society, the Arab society, and Latino society all of his/her entire life to be accepted as a part of these …show more content…
So, the American society tried to decrease the number of biracial people by forcing laws that were prohibiting and even criminalizing sex and marriage across the color line and discouraging the birth of mixed offspring (Jones). Today most of the laws have been changed, and the prohibition of interracial marriage is over in the American society. Even though race is not a good reason to treat people differently as Charles Murray mentioned in the explaining of the racial formation project (Dalmage 5), but the American society still managing a different ethnic groups in a variety of ways than each other. So, the Arab-Latino American will face more discrimination in American society than single race child because he/she will face discrimination toward the different parents ' races. The Arab-Latino American child will undergo many struggles in American society depending on two things: 1) The inherited physical features the child will receive from the Latino or the Arab side, 2) The American society’s view and profiling of the Arab and Latino racial …show more content…
The American society sees the Arab men as a terrorist that hate all other religions and want to change the world around them the way they want and force their power, and sees the Arab women as victims who are forced by their men to cover themselves and wear the head scarf. So if the Arab-Latino American child is a boy, the society will see him as a terrorist who cannot be trusted, and if the child is a girl the society will see her as a victim who is forced to wear the head scarf. As being one of the Arab, who lived in an Arab country for 15 years, I would say that the American society 's profiling about the Arab is entirely wrong. First, not all Arab are Muslim, two of my Arab friend where Christen. Second, my religion which is Islam and my religion holy book, which is Quran prohibiting any Muslim from killing anyone, it also prohibiting any Muslim from hurting other people feeling and treating them differently than Muslim people. Islam is preventing Muslims people from being terrorist; it does not mean that all Muslim are good, nor it mean all of that are bad. Also, as being one of the women who were the head scarf, I did not been forced when I started to wear it. My dad nor my

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