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PatrickB's avatar

This analysis describes my parents and me. My mom is white and my dad is black (in the US American sense) but they are otherwise similar in personality and worldview. Extroverted, impulsive, emotionally and financially, and hate reading. Growing up, interacting with them was like dealing with the same person in two different people. I also have issues with executive function, but more about focus and staying on task and not getting lost in my thoughts, as I tend to keep to myself.

I actually come from a long line of miscegenation. My mom’s mom is Rhineland German x Polish, her dad was Ashkenazi x Prussian, and my dad’s mom is Irish x Amerindian. My dad’s dad was the color of night under the new moon, mostly of subsaharan African descent, but he was a little (a quarter or a sixteenth?) Spanish.

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John Michener's avatar

I have seen a number of couples where Asian women have married white men - note that my observations are only in the college graduate and post graduate environment, and I have run across a number of children from such marriages in my work as well (tech environment). And if you want to get fine grained about it, I am familiar with a lot of Jewish - gentile matches, also successful. In the past, these would have been considered different groups.

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TonyZa's avatar

LGBT are more likely to have mental/behavioural issues. I wonder if that's true for all kinks including the kink for interracial relationships.

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Disder Fodmex's avatar

For those who do not know Latin, the word miscegenation might sound derogatory. It is prefixed with “mis”.

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Ray Solzhenitsyn's avatar

What are the other risk-taking behaviors being considered along with interracial dating?

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John Michener's avatar

I am long past the age to be concerned about this, but in the environment I work in (high tech) I don't necessarily know the ethnic background of my peers. Yes, some are obviously South Indian, or Han Chinese, others are some form of SouthEast Asian mix, but you can't really tell about a lot of the others - North Indian, Persian, Turkish, ... Then mix in the American mongrels and add in their foreign adopted children. The educated core from South and Central America also easily pass as Europeans. They have to tell you their ancestry for you to know. Frankly, in my environment there are probably more foreign born - or children of foreign born immigrants than multi-generational Americans. My wife is Ukrainian so my kids somewhat fall into that environment as well. We are getting a lot of natural mixing in this environment and it doesn't take any kinks to encourage it.

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