Weekly Feature #2: The authors Q&A each other

On this week of Q&A each other, Eric ask me some questions about an article I wrote this weekEric: In your full post for this week you shared some interesting things on the topic of interracial dating. Along with movements to end segregation, what other major things you feel played a part with interracial dating becoming more accepted?

Ramses: My thoughts on other major things that contributed to interracial dating becoming more accepted is the changing times, along with interracial dating being portrayed as more positive in the media. Essentially, interracial relationships are not so much of a taboo today, as it was a few decades ago. If I see an interracial couple, I all but do not see the couple as such, but just as a couple. People make their own choices of who they like; they base their decisions not on ethnicity, but base their decisions on whoever they are compatible with. The main thing to understand is that dating and relationships has no color lines, and dating and relationships are more worthwhile when people have options of who they want to be compatible with.

Eric: You touched on this a bit, but just to give deeper insight, what do you feel are some of the common problems associated with interracial dating and what are the solutions, (if any)? Is there a way a person should prepare if their plan is to be with someone of another ethnicity.

Ramses: Well, Eric, one of the main problems with interracial dating and relationships is that there are some people who do not want to accept change. Some people feel that people should ONLY DATE within their own ethnicities.  I ran across a website that listed the 7 common issues with interracial relationships.  It is clear that anyone who chooses to have an interracial relationship will have problems from their friends, their families, and society in general. In other words, some interracial couples will get unpleasant looks, and/or will get some snide remarks from others who are not in favor of their relationships. The solution is that people should just accept the change that there are more interracial relationships more now than ever, and interracial couples should not worry about what other think of them.  Interracial couples should prepare for some people to not accept their relationship, but know that no matter what others say, as long as they love each other unconditionally, then it will not matter what others say or think about them.