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Originally Posted by actinic
I'm Chinese Buddhist w/French/Irish/English Canadian Catholic. Her grandparents were the most resistant and my parents gave up on me marrying/dating Chinese ages ago...LOL!
Growing up in New Brunswick in the 70's and 80's, I've grown quite a thick skin to jeers, whispers and such. In 2005 we took a cross Canada road trip and it was her first time experiencing of blatant bigotry and at times was quite uncomfortable when we had to fill up, stop to eat, etc, in the smaller towns.
In a small town in Alberta, we were having lunch in a quaint cafe and a woman discreetly slipped a note to me that we had 5mins to eat up, pay get out. When we got to Calgary to see my sister and her husband (white), it was my wife and I that got more attention than my sis and her husband when the Calgary Stampede was going on and the "good ol' boys" flocked in.
Religious differences aside, IME/HO, it's more of a challenge when it's the male that's of "color" in an interracial relationship.
Can't we all frikken get along...LOL!
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Myself Black/Native American/German, any time I dated someone outside my own races i've got jeers from pass cars, stares the whole nine. Gotten thick skin over the years. As the the OPs question I wouldn't be here if it weren't for a little race mixing back in the day, so I don't see anything wrong with it.