Are atheist, agnostics and freethinkers more or less open to dating and marrying someone of another race and why?
I do not see color.
So is everything you see just different shades of grey?
That’s unfortunate, because the human race is made up of beautiful shades and all should be acknowledged, loved, and appreciated for what they are, not ignored. (But I know what you mean, of course...) ?
@Jenelle
I think of others as people in general. We are all the same humans. I don't look to analyze races and color. No I don't see color, I see people.
We are all a rainbow.
Like in Fairly Odd Parents? We're all just gray blobs?
I have no issues with interracial dating or marriage.
We are all human. I don't see anything wrong with it.
I have lived in nonwhite neighborhoods since 2006. I find a lot of white people for the most part ugly. Of the guys I have dated, the most respectful were the Black men. I have never been assaulted by anyone who was not a white man. Although I have faced danger from both Blacks and whites, it was the Black predator whose sense of chivalry I was able to awaken when he was stalking me (3 AM, alone, party dress from dancing at the Harvard club, most dangerous borough of Brooklyn) by turning around and asking him to walk me home (turning myself from victim into somebody's sister or mother).
But I am very wary of dating men from disgustingly and frighteningly sexist cultures; and there is a country from which every man I have dated was excruciatingly boring, so I keep away from that nationality.
@Compassion8doubt Ok a little much but... at some point a person has to learn a pattern!
Same nation, same men, in my not too small experience; when in positions of power (doctors, professors) are always extremely condescending to women, especially young women, and do not place any worth At All on what a woman in a position they see as lower than them has to say or think.
Again, a whole nation of sexist asses? Maybe not, but at some point I have to stop giving this category of person a chance~ in my life
Having taken Sociology 101, I'm of the mindset that there is only one race: The Human Race. With that said, I would definitely be sticking to my own race. ?
I wish everyone was color blind! Why are you asking this pretty loaded question?
It doesn't make any difference as long as u foucs on the mentality
My theory is, without any data to back it up, that they probably are more open to inter-racial dating based on the fact that they tend to be more open minded in general anyway. But at the same time, I don't think being agnostic or atheist is a guarantee that you are open to it.
I would say it's a non-issue. Just like gay marriage. It doesn't affect anyone but those 2 people. I feel I would be declaring some sort of superiority by giving my "approval." It's not an an issue that needs approval.
I hope that freethinkers are not affected by race when it comes to dating choices. I don't believe that one should be. That being said, thinking back, I dated one First Nations person, and that's about it when it comes to other races. I'm Latina myself, so does that count? I think that my own dating choices had more to do with who was around than race, but maybe that was an unconscious factor.I am surprised by how many people on dating sites say that they only want to date their own race. I click past them. I don't want a relationship with a bigot. I don't even understand where that would come from.
@calendarman I hope not.
I will date anyone of the Human race, A Vulcan maybe, a Klingon I would have to think about it. Character defines who you are not the color of your skin.
Have you seen those Klingon bitches in bed, whoaaaa bring it on but wouldn't want to marry one.
Color of skin means nothing. Cultural differences (which are not skin-tone based, either) can be an issue if the couple have different philosophies, or their families do, but that still doesn't make it my business, except in hoping it works out for them, because love is love.
I grew up in a Multi Cultural Childhood and having served in the Military was a plus because I got to see racism up close. Back home on the block we used to joke about it, but bunking in with the Southern Population made it apparent that the 'Civil War' was not over as was WW11 and that White Supremacy would again rear it's ugly head. I left a Corporate Job after three years after graduating from College because of the same reasons and I never looked back.
I became a Union Worker with a Masters Degree for the next 30 years where I worked along all races, colors, creeds and learned their Histories.
I learned that I have a soul which is the most important part of my integrity. I read History, Listen to Jazz, and Read every author and story regardless of race, color or creed. Everything else is bigoted as Politicians and Religious Leaders want to make it or manipulate it.
Did you watch the royal wedding? Move on.
I think we should be cognizant of the fact that this is an international platform and not all places around the world share Western enlightenment values. Places like Yemen, Mali, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Texas.
@Stepmomofdragons My school friends uncle made it to page 5 of the daily mirror (then the biggest newspaper in the UK) circa late 50s early 60s. because he married a black woman. Move on to the 70s and its no biggie in my hood. 2018 and the very heart of the English establishment has moved on too. Truth is in my hood you would get some very funny looks for even asking that question.
Okay maybe where I live is a-typical or hopefully the way we will all go.
@273kelvin Until 1967 when the US Supreme Court ruled in Loving vs. Virginia, it was a crime in many states to marry someone of a different race. One need not refer to the map showing the states that were forced by the courts to rescind their anti-miscegenation laws, but here it is for your information--no surprises here!
[aclu.org]
@273kelvin Married my Nigerian husband in 1979. I'm white. Old news around here.