Interracial Marriage and the Bible

[Drich]

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I haven't officially studied bi-racial people, but I do tend to seek them out and talk with them if and when time allows. (At parties social gatherings whatever) I think most I have spoken to all say they felt loved, but again really didn't belong to one culture or race or the other. (unless they really looked like one race or the other, or were just out and out the oblivious to everything type.)
Which for the most part we grow out of it effecting our lives, but at the same time across the board (again unless they look like one race or the other) we all share a brutal childhood. Especially if we went to public school, and did not look like one race or the other.

While for the most part the families involved did not shun the kids most of us know we did not get the same treatment as our 'cousins' did.

This is alot to put on a kid if they are not given the tools to deal and cope. It's one thing to be call a racial name if you are all Black or Japanese, because you can go back to a group of people who all share and absorb your pain/experience, your mother is like you your father, your cousins, your friends are all like you and you are and belong to a people.. Their is Heritage, their is tradition.. it's another when you are the only one of your kind, your mom is different, your dad is different and everyone is different.

Again this is asking alot for a kid to figure out for him or her self.. Just because mommy and daddy wanted to be different.

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I can certainly understand how having parents with extremely different traditions and views of the world overall, could cause a child to feel conflicted/ confused at the prospect of having to 'choose sides'. Especially if the parents can't be bothered to talk to their children, or come to a basic consensus on how raise them.

I don't feel that parents from what could essentially be considered the same background/culture, who also happen to be of different races are necessarily presenting their children with the same dilemma. It's unfair to assume that these people are selfish and just want to be different, or assume that their offspring feel pressured to somehow pick a side; especially in this current day and age. Being mixed race and/or appearing racially ambiguous isn't all that unusual or uncommon it used to be. It's not necessarily the isolating experience, you found it to be x amount of years ago.

Not certain why you feel that it's crucial for people to to share the same physical characteristics in order to relate one another. Being of the same race is ONE of countless commonalities  and shared experiences that allow people to relate to each other on some level.

The point your missing is the child(ern) Don't grow up as being apart of a people or community. Yes their may be others with the same racial mix, but no sense of community or belonging. we have 'antidotes' or common stories/experiences , but no sense of community.

To take that from a child or to assume one is able to provide this basic form of identify or worse yet not even think about it is indeed selfish! The parents wants, userpt the childs needs, how is that not selfish?

Look at your response. You could not point to a social structure equivalent to the self identification say black people have with other black people or whites with whites. You pointed to "It's not as rare as it use to be." Your comparing the right of hundreds of thousands of years of basic self identification, against it's not as rare as it use to be.

Again as a child this matters because all higher functioning social activity first starts along racial lines. The first division is gender, then instinctively we subdivide by race. If we didn't this question that started this tread would be a non issue.

I mean how many threads have you seen asking "What does God say about White people marrying other white people?"