My mother's not bothered with race, as long as I am happy. My father on the other hand is another story, one hint of colour (even olive skinned!) he takes offence. He's always been from the Victorian era, very strict but for my own peace of mind if I do finally meet the man of my dreams, I'm prepared to stop talking to my dad (well, he'll stop talking to me!)
Most of my relatives dont have a problem with it.They may not share my taste but they tolerate and accept it. My dad got more a problem with me dating a US soldier cos he used to hang with a few of them when the base n my town was still open and saw them playing women way too much.
Most of my immediate family is totally against my preference for black men. I come from a very small town, so moving to a big city really opened my eyes to the opportunities out there!
Well most of my family is completely cool with it as long as she's cool and respectful. But some of my other family members especially some of the older ones tend give me a little bit of a hard time with me dating out of my race, but i think its mostly a generational thing but you know thats just from my personal view.
my mother doesn't give damn who I date. my sister was dating this "ivan drago" looking dude and my mother loved him.
its sort of like im gay....at first they were not into it, they wouldnt say much about it but now they just seem to go with it. My mother is very old school and does not like white people at all. She grew up in the midwest and (only being born in '53) encountered a lot of shit. In fact my whole extended family hates whites for the same reason. My father grew up in CA so his take is radically different.....he's indifferent.
My whole family loves my husband. My family are all Aussie, he is the first black American any of them have probably met. But they wouldn't care what color he is. So much less prejudice in aus.
They really dont care except when it involves the blackman or the white woman in question being rude to the parents by throwing racial slurs on his/her second half.For example there are some white women(not all) who call their black boyfriends or hubby the N word just to act cool or there are some blk men who refer to their white girlfriends or wives as bytches(also not all) and mostly such attitudes wouldnt go down well with a parent.
I was reading in the papers tht a group of asian students were attacked in Adalaide(pardon me if i didnt get the spelling right).By the way is the relationship b/w the aboriginals and the white australians going on in a good note right now? I used to read a lot about the racial tension b/w aboriginals and white aussies in the past.
That is great to hear, I thought I remember reading that there is a lot of prejudice there against Aborigines, is that true?
Some Aussies can be pretty prejudice against Aboriginals - not to the point of violence, not even verbal abuse, though it is common the other way around in some areas. But after living in America, I can certainly say that the two don't even compare. Australia's level of 'racism' is nothing - nothing - compared to America's. I am constantly amazed at the attitudes of some people I encounter in this country. =(
