Have you ever dated someone outside your race, and yout family was against it?

okay people I get, dang some of you took this question to another level...some of you are so rude!!!!

I haven't, but only because I haven't dated anyone. Even if I had, I'm quite certain my family would be unbothered. I'm pretty damn white myself, but some of my cousins are half Puerto Rican, some are half Sri Lankan, and some are half Vietnamese. One of my dad's uncles is African American, and one of his aunts is Venezuelan, if I recall correctly. I'd hardly be setting any sort of precedent for my family.

That's great for you, but some of us just don't find certain races as attractive as others. As I said, I was with a girl who was of a race other than my "preferred" races, and that was because she made me happy and was fun to be with and I cared about her. But for some of us, appearance plays a role in attraction. I personally believe that chemistry is a quirky thing that means you'll find someone appealing in every way when there's chemistry to be had. And generally for me, that doesn't happen with certain races. Just the way it is. Much like I don't find hipsters attractive. It's not up to you what I decide is important in a significant other. For me, I think being attracted to every part of a person is important. I never said "I'LL NEVER BE WITH A BLACK WOMAN." I just said I don't generally find them particularly attractive.

And I am in fact out of high school. Surprise surprise. I've also managed to talk to people I didn't find immediately attractive. And, not afraid to admit that I feel physicality is important in the chemistry of a relationship. If I'm going to be with someone, I'm not going to compromise. I know people that I personally find attractive exist that are attractive to me on every level, instead of just one that I consider more important. I also bet you absolutely have a type and that you absolutely find some people more attractive than others and that it colors your behavior. Maybe not as much as me (which, to be clear, isn't very much), but it happens. It's just biology, man. No need to fight it.

I'm all about the big ghetto booty

"Outside my race"? You mean like an alien from another planet or galaxy?

I think we all belong to the same human race despite the colour of our skin.

If the alien women are like the ones that Captain Kirk manages to find then definately yes.

Same species, not race.

I dated an Indian girl for about 6 years and I am essentially white (half scandanavian/half turkish). My family couldn't care less who I date, which is awesome having that kind of support, but her family was like a brick wall for 5 of those 6 years. Since I wasn't a "nice indian boy" trying to penetrate that wall took a metric shit-ton of effort and even then I was never fully accepted.

It was pretty horrible being shunned at gatherings and such but if you like the person you just gotta go for it and worry about yourself. At the end of the day its your life and even if they think it's bad and don't condone it, they'll love you for who you are and will hopefully come around eventually if they see that the person you're with is awesome.

I'm white, my wife is Vietnamese. Both of our families love each of us, but there's certainly a palpable barrier between me and some of her family members at times. I don't like fish sauce, for example, which is totally incomprehensible.

To some extent, I think this kind of thing is totally understandable among immigrant communities. They are insular because they have had to be. Particularly for refugee populations who didn't leave their homes by choice, this just isn't the family life they'd envisioned. They grew up expecting a three generation household with grandchildren singing a certain set of children's songs, and I'm an ever-present reminder that they'll never have that. If a person simply isn't able to look past that kind of thing, it shows a weakness of character, but I think it's at least helpful to try to understand why they feel the way they do.

All the time but I just stopped caring to such a degree that my family started letting it go.

I'm not sure I've ever been in a relationship with someone within my race, and it's really never been an issue with anyone I know.

(Christ, what do I have against white people?)

Not really no, my kind typically don't go out and meet other people.

And even if I did I live in a location where there is really only one race so to speak.

I have never been in that situation. My family isn't racist.

Subspecies as Homo sapiens is our species. I know I wasn't very clear, but I was trying to make the point that it doesn't make sense to use racial classification in the context of our subspecies.There simple isn't enough genetic variation for it to be a useful term. It is possible to find greater genetic variation among two groups of Chimpanzee in the same forest and that doesn't make biologists to refer to them as different races.

In fact I doubt it is useful for anything besides the genetic experiments that is dog races.

Besides the term was practically invented by racist as way to justify slavery. I think that in itself is a good reason not to promote it.

Yeah, instead of using the word races try ethnicities, i mean i know its alot harder to spell and all but google is right there man.

My first girlfriend was Chinese (I'm white), she told me her parents didn't like white people, and they hated black people.

It was a weird day.