Interracial relationships
 

Is it still a taboo for Japaneese men or women to date or marry someone that is not Japaneese?

The Japanese are starting to westernize so they are now starting to think like the western culture. At first they would only marry their own race and no outsiders.

We are NOT westernizing. We may be changing but to call it 'westernization' is inaccurate and too simplistic. How do we westernize when our population is 99.5% Japanese and the majority of the remaining 0.5% consists of other Oriental ethnic groups?

How do you expect to see so many of us marry foreigners when only 1 out of every 200 people in Japan are non-Japanese?

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 stand corrected and thank you for correcting me. I just heard that from my little brother.

i think it's a good thing though
i don't think there's anything wrong with dating someone outside your "race"
i think what matters is the person and what they stand for rather than what they look like:D

not really, i mean lots of people are pretty open minded now, it's not the middle ages there. And plus, if you're a nice person, of course they'll like you. But they won't like you THAT much, considering that you are marrying their child/sibling, its the same in any other marriage, the family's always gona leave some room for apprehensions.

There are many places in Japan that are so metropolitan or even the old places where there will be 'white' tourists, they're not surprised by gaijins.

I think it isn't such a taboo anymore...
Considering I'm a majorly white girl with a small-town japanese guy. ^^;

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

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".

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.

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

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.:rheart:

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

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.

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!!!

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?

white side
black side
and i used to destroy jedi knights lol...

I dated a lovely South Korean woman a while ago. I liked her very much.
She wanted me to go the South Korea to meet her father. I got very nervous.
I didn't think he would approve of me. But yes, I would love to meet a lovely
Japanese lady , if we were compatable, race does not matter.

semi-hot is almost hot but not quiete there!!!:eek: :eek:

lol
that doesn't make since...but okay...

what's a gaijin?

i think it means like , outsider ??


and also im a white dude and i dont really like white girls
i prefer asians :)

and atm im dating a japanese girl ^_^

Hmm
 

I hate this nonsense about interracial relationships,
afterall we live on the same planet.
Does it really mater the color of your skin or eyes or hair...
I think not, Love makes no exeptions (people do) , youll only realize it when the world around you disappiers, and in that moment nothing else maters exept that girl.
G.

AFAIK, a gaijin is a non-Japanese person, a foreigner...

Well, I'm single right now, but I wouldn't mind having a Japanese bf. To me, it's the character of a person, that's importance, not where they come from.

I agree. We all have preferences. I think most Japanese,Chinese,Korean, etc. prefer to marry or date there own race because there's a cultural understanding and comfort in it, however, some view as interracial dating and marriage as a way to learn other cultures and experience. In either case, I believe all relationships can success or fail depending on each others interests,expections, tolerance and love.

my japanese mum married my aussie dad like more than 20 years ago... :)

I think it's weird to like someone just because they're Japanese, and sort of aiming to go out with a Japanese person.

I think that you should just go with the flow in relationships! The right one will come along eventually, be it american, british, japanese, korean, chinese etc That should not be a factor when choosing relationships.

Saying that, some people are big on appearance. I'm one of those girls who genuinely doesn't care how a guy looks as long as they are sweet to me and treat me right.

awwww :p thats so cute !

Well it's the best way to be I think, you end up being with much nicer people and not just self-centered posers >.< [Not that every nice looking male is a self-centered poser]

"British" - there's a laugh.

Lump a load of dfferent de-colonialized ethinicities on an Island and call the end result 'multiculturalism'. Most of them can't agree on the colour of shite let alone which value system to follow.

Hybrid / bastard / mongrel nation sounds much better to me. I woulldn't mind so much, but feigning to have pride in a country built on rape, slavery, murder theft and torture is as laughable as it is preposterous.

I've said it before; The only difference between this



and this



Is thier legacies in History - written by the victors.

I'm sure interracial relationships aren't as impossible as some are in the southern parts of Northern America.

Every country has negative pasts, not just the UK. There are a lot of positive things in the UK that people seem to blindly ignore - the free health system perhaps? Anyone can get treated, freely, on the NHS. Free schools? Everyone has the right to an education here, and gets it completely free until a certain age. I think some people need to understand how lucky they are to live in a place such as the UK, and stop complaining about stupid issues that mean nothing. Yes the UK is not perfect, nor is anywhere else, but a large majority of the people in the UK have a comfortable lifestyle which a lot of people are not grateful for.

I think the main concern my dad's family (Japanese) had with my mum (white) was whether or not she'd assimilate (adopt Japanese mannerisms and show enough respect towards the Japanese culture). Since she did assimilate, my dad's family is very accepting of her.

I agree. ;)

the way i see it is marry who you want it is you're right or date who you want.