Interracial relationships

[chachava]

Originally Posted by Joedirt

I have always found japaneese women to be so beautiful. I have wondered how they view white Americans now days. Would a japaneese family despise me or accept my whiteness.

I'm British white and my (Japanese) girlfriends parents really like me - they probably treat me better than my own parents back home hahaha

I doubt most Japanese people care what race you are - from my experiences, if you are a nice person then they will accept you for who you are


That said, I'm talking from Tokyo/Yokohama experience where gaijin are not exactly a new thing... I don't know how relevent my experiences would be if you were in a less tourist-oriented area

[Lazarus]

My girlfriend is half Japanese on her mother's side.
Now, just to show you how much things have changed, when her parents had their wedding ceremony, maybe 20ish years ago, it was so unheard of to have an interracial marriage with a Japanese person there was actually a local news article on it (here in Scotland). It had some silly title like "East meets West".

Nowadays, an interracial relationship like that is far less taboo in the west. Because of the western influence in today's popular culture in Japan, I imagine these kind of relationships are also perhaps not as big a deal as they once were.

...and dude, it's spelled "Japanese".

[SSJup81]

Originally Posted by Joedirt

I have always found japaneese women to be so beautiful. I have wondered how they view white Americans now days. Would a japaneese family despise me or accept my whiteness.

Wouldn't that depend on the family in question? There might me some families that are really old fashioned and have a "purist" mentality and might not want a foreigner in the family to taint the bloodline. On the other hand, some families might just be racist.

[kyo_9]

hahaha.. I don't think people around the world think like that anymore..
taboo~~ just don't believe it..

[cami71213]

I hope that they do "allow" for Japanese guys to date women of other races because I'm Mexican/Hispanic/Latina/Chicana and I want to date an Japanese guy.

[kokunin]

my japanese teacher in college is married to a chick from the states lol...it's funny we were talking yesterday abotu that, and he asked how did i know, becaus eyoru son is taller than you lol. And he was liek if i had a bigger wife what would you say, I said tsuyokunai mitai... and he was liek lol...Sensei omoshirokatta...lol

[SSJup81]

Originally Posted by kyo_9

hahaha.. I don't think people around the world think like that anymore..
taboo~~ just don't believe it..

It's probably in the minority now-a-days, but it wouldn't surprise me if some people from older generations didn't agree with interracial dating/mixing/marriages.

[zachart]

to me the only thing that matters is if i know you, you were born as a girl, and you have to be at least semi hot!!!

[kokunin]

then the question comes, whats semi-hot? okay, i am dating a half girl already and she's cool, the light side of the family thinks I'm a danger to her mental state (although i have to say that girl is extremely dangerous on her own lol, seriously...) and the dark side of the family likes me because I'm blunt...

[chachava]

Originally Posted by kokunin

then the question comes, whats semi-hot? okay, i am dating a half girl already and she's cool, the light side of the family thinks I'm a danger to her mental state (although i have to say that girl is extremely dangerous on her own lol, seriously...) and the dark side of the family likes me because I'm blunt...

light side? darkside?

Are you dating a jedi?