Interracial Marriage

Interracial Marriage

  • Submitted By: tristesoy
  • Date Submitted: 12/08/2010 11:09 AM
  • Category: Psychology
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Interracial marriages have rough waters to bear. It's bad enough they suffer from prejudice of others, but also from inherent problems of the difference in their cultures, which also combines with problems in a marriage period. Ethnic groups bring variety and richness to society by introducing their own customs and ideas. Interracial marriages introduce such variety. In a perfect world, we would benefit from this., but , the world does not see all marriages as love between two human beings, without regards to their race. Quoted from Hubbynet Internet.
So many marriages happening in the United States, it's hard to believe that just in the year 1966, 17 states actually had laws against interracial marriage. And all of the states regulated marriage between whites and other races. The Supreme Court overturned every states antimiscegenation laws (laws against marriage between different races) in 1967 (. In the legal case of Loving vs. State of Virginia, a white man and black woman won the right to return home after having fled their state to avoid a year's jail sentence for getting married. But as late as the seventies at least twelve states still had laws forbidding marriage between whites and other races. Why have such laws? A person should not have to worry about a law when marrying the person they love. If the United States is really a melting pot, then citizens should not have to worry about falling in love and having laws that could separate them.
Although laws have been banned, interracial dating, or interracial marriages are still in issue in our society. Some people have not accepted the fact that race should not be an issue in marriages or relationships. Three years ago, Bob Jones University in South Carolina had existing prohibitions against interracial dating. This became an issue with the public when president George W. Bush, visited the college, a very publicized visit, and did not have any comments to the college regarding...

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