Holding an inter-racial relationship is a great struggle for those who choose to cross racial boundaries. People who engage in such a relationship show maturity, operate with an open mind, and exhibit respect for all God's beings, regardless of skin color. Society today is still not entirely accepting of inter-racial relationships. Prejudices and unfair treatment sill exist.
Love should have no boundaries at all. Love cannot be categorized into a race. Racism in today's society is slowly decreasing, but still takes place. Society has become more tolerant with other races and inter-racial marriages and dating. The perception is a racist person comes from how they were raised or what they saw during the juvenile years.
Being brought up in a racist manner, can lead them in perceiving the world how they thin it "should" be. With these thoughts relations and marriages come up. To racist individuals a certain view on how intimate human relations should be conducted is developed.
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Indigenous Races of the Earth (1857), Josiah Clark...A racist persona believes their race is superior to another and does not believe in mixing or un-purifying their race should occur. If this does occur the "mixer" and "mixee" of the relationship get labeled and called names.
Labels are something that goes for all people, but a racial label is one more known. Derogatory terms are part of some people's everyday vocabulary. These would include the terms "nigger", "spic", "chink", "dego", "cracker", and "wetback". These phrases are things many couples hear daily from family, friends, television, and on the street. Inter-racial couples get labeled constantly. Labels such as the racial slurs mentioned above are bad. Many whites that frequently date or marry black men or women are referred to as "nigger loves" and many blacks that date whites are said to have "jungle fever". Aside from this hatred, there is...