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Political Conservatism, Racial Identity And Interracial Dating

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Paula Patton and Robin Thicke, Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs, Zoe Saldana and Keith Britton, Justin and Keisha Chambers, Sidney Poitier and Joanna Shimkus, and of course the infamous ‘Kimye’, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. These are all popular interracial/interethnic couples. Often times the public wonders about how such individuals have successful relationships especially in the eye on the media. Episode 31 of Season 2 of The Fresh Prince of Belair: Aunt Janice comes to Belair to get married but, there is one small detail that she left out when describing her fiancé to the family. That small detail happens to be that her fiancé Bruce is white. Aunt Vy, Will’s mother, disapprove of the two’s interracial union and forbids Will to be the best …show more content…

These theories will guide the research questions and hypothesis of this study. Political conservatism and racial identity influence my viewpoint on racial identity and interracial dating. I believe that political conservatism plays a very large part in the idea of interracial dating. Political conservatism states that individuals stay true to the traditions of their cultures, beliefs, and religion. Separating races in the arena of relationships is a tradition that form early in society’s history. Examples of this include: anti-miscegenation, slavery, and black and white segregation. I also believe that racial identity plays a large part in interracial dating for cliché reasons such as: if you do not know or understand who you are as an individual how can you get to know someone else as an individual. Also racial identity encompasses how an individual feels towards his or her own race as a whole. How an individual feels about his or her own race affects their choices when it comes to interacting with individuals of another …show more content…

Over the years in America’s history there has been an increase in interracial relationship statistics. Passed research gives many reason for this increase but also gives reason for why the increase is at such a small percentage. In addition to that passed research studies individual’s views on the topics, which in turn assesses society’s perception on interracial dating and racial identity. Some studies such as Childs with Black women ignored the reasons for the perceived behavior of Black women compared to White women. In the current study the following questions will be explored: How does political conservatism influence individuals viewpoint on interracial relationships versus intraracial relationships? Does racial identity or an individual’s perception of another race correlate with their perception of interracial dating? Do interracial relationships cause unnecessary or more conflict than would be caused in an intraracial relationship? I hypothesize that political conservatism will negatively influence an individual’s viewpoint on interracial relationships versus intraracial relationships. I hypothesize that there is a correlation between racial identity and an individual’s perception of another race. I also hypothesize that interracial relationships do cause more conflict than intraracial

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