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I had a black girl friend in college. Her brother was there also and we'd hang out with him and his white girlfriend sometimes. They got along well and were a sweet, not gushy couple. Her parents came to visit. I don't think she'd informed them of his skin color. They flipped out and told her if she didn't break up with him they'd force her to come and and refuse to help with any more college. Pretty harsh. And they said all this in front of him. He was an A student, smart and clean. The only gripe they had was his skin color. Pretty sad as she did break up with him.
My parents told me that if I ever wanted to date someone from a different race of culture they would support me. My mother told me outright to be careful though in that someone from a completely different culture would have different ways of looking at things and maybe even communicating. Marriage is hard enough without facing a type of culture shock as well. I did date a deaf guy for a while and was even engaged to him. Not only did he have a different culture but he was exactly 10 years older than me. Our places in life were different too. The combination of differences made it hard. Eventually after he'd insisted on ANOTHER week OFF (not seeing each other to "test our relationship") I told him I'd had enough and broke off the engagement.
Different cultures can make it hardbut not impossible. Different colors should not be considered I think.
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