Dark Complexion!!!!

To some extent, the same holds for Asians. I'm Filipino-American, born in the US but grew up here. This doesn't mean that this makes me less an American than what my birth certificate says. I'm in an long-distance relationship with a white American, and from what I gather, a few members of his family don't exactly approve of their cousin seeing some girl from Asia. They think that I'm just leading him on, or just after his money. I have other family members in the US, and I learned that there is some sort of internal racism going on within our nationality or people group. I met with cousins that have married foreign men. They're sisters, actually. One married a Caucasian born and raised in the US but has Spanish lineage. The other married an African-American who served in the Army. The cousin who married the Army serviceman told me that her mother didn't approve of this man at first, saying "Don't marry him. We have to cleanse our blood." My cousins thought this strange and they don't know what it means. I don't know what it means. At any rate, the mother eventually accepted this man for her daughter and all is well. But that sentiment of "cleansing the blood" is too strange. There definitely still is a discrimination against skin color, but I'd like to think that this is fading, albeit at a slow rate.

It depends. I think when the darker skinned people were conquered by a lighter skinned people centuries ago, the lighter ones would have been the ruling class so that would have meant a class distinction for just by looking at person, you could see what class he was in by the color of his skin. There is another thing. People tend to marry those who look like their parents. In many cases, girls want to marry someone who looks like their fathers and I guess boys someone who looks like their mothers. So in some cases, it might mean discrimination, but in other situations no discrimination at all, but marrying someone who looks like one's parents. Anyway no matter what the reason, marrying someone of a different shade of color is just as wrong as marrying someone based on lust and not real love and affection. Now if there were the case of a young man and a young woman being perfect for each other, and the only reason the young man would not marry her was because she was either darker skinned or lighter skinned then he, that would be wrong. So you have to take all these facts into consideration.

Yes, you are right Samson. Even in these days, even literates are following colour discrimination. It is really a pity to know about this.

Sadly there are still people that are not accepting of ‘mixed’ marriages as they call them. I think it is a silly term because people are people, some have different colour skin and to me, it is completely irrelevant. I don’t know why it is such an issue for some. I know it is for my father and I am ashamed to admit that he is quite a racially prejudiced man even though he will not admit to it; he has said that he does not like white people marrying black people, to me that is racist!

As a multi racial individual, there definitely is still discrimination. It has just changed. I try though to live beyond the small ideas and educated others. Some listen. You must remember though, things have changed radically. 30 years ago, it was much much worse. It just has not come as far we hoped.

It would be good if we could avoid colour discrimination, but it has long been in our species. My guess is that it will take a long time to disappear too. There are occasions when I have described someone using their skin colour: but as a descriptive term- as one may remark that someone wore blue trousers. Very rarely I have had people round on me for using that, which makes me wonder how race sensitive my accuser is.