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    In the past if an interracial couple walked into a restaurant, the place would be filled with a cold stare. The people of this restaurant would not care that this couple might be deeply in love, all they would see in this moment was color. This allows one to question whether or not race and religion matter when considering a potential spouse. Although this is debatable, race and religion should not matter because of the wide acceptance of interracial marriage in today's society and the ability people

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    Interracial marriage was a very tough topic not very long ago, and most of the nation has grown to accept it. The Supreme Court delivered a verdict in favor for couples to marry interracially in 1967, they stated that the laws to prevent interracial marriage was nothing more than an attempt "to maintain white supremacy" (Stoddard 413). The United States Supreme court concluded that laws against interracial marriage served no purpose other than discrimination, and that they should be eliminated. The

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    different goal and I can’t view them being compatible.” he said. “Just because two different cultures have different goals that doesn’t mean they can’t marry each other.” she said. “It matters for the relationship and it’s not common to see interracial marriage.” he said. “It wouldn’t affect the relationship as long as they love each other and it’s not common because people some white people patronize over black people.” She said. “Exactly and that’s what our society views.” he said. “Do you think

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    Marriage should be solely based on love for an individual, not the color of their skin or the god they choose to believe in. No matter the race or religion of an individual, everyone deserves to be loved for who they are. Race and religion should not matter when choosing a mate because interfaith can create many new opportunities for the couple, it gives the children more lifestyle options to choose from in the future, and interracial relationships brings acceptance into society. Being in an interfaith

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    “Everybody is human, everybody walks, and everybody talks, so why care what they say. Many choose to be unique and not care about irrelevant people.” Interracial Marriage is one of the less cared about marriages. Most people do not approve of any type of interracial marriage or mixed-race children in a family of another race. People were not born to hate, they were raised to be that way. Every individual has a right to be there own person, but don’t have enough respect not to show it around people

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    I am the product of three generations of interracial marriages – each of my great grandparents was a different ethnicity, my grandparents were married a decade before Loving v. Virginia legalized their love, and my own parents’ interracial marriage decades later still caused raised eyebrows. I was raised with a deep familiarity with social inequality and an unwavering belief that the individual’s role in powering social change was as natural as pairing hot sauce with lox. As the daughter of an English

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    Along with child marriages, interracial marriages were still being debated in the courts. In the court case Rhinelander v. Rhinelander, a young mixed race maid fell in love and married the son of a white multi-millionaire. When a magazine published an article outing the maid as being of a mixed race, the son filed for an annulment on the grounds, “Leonard alleged that Alice had misrepresented her race to him by improperly leading him to believe that she was white, "not colored," before their nuptials

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    Interracial Marriage Interracial marriages have been a growing issue in our society. Some think that interracial marriages and relationships are socially wrong. Some believe that it harms children of mixed races because of the stares, discrimination, and being criticized. One should not have to feel the pain from being stared at or criticized, or discriminated against because of the color of skin or being with the one they love of a different race. The marriages and relationships that are interracial

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    In the modern world today, there are still people that are bigots who view interracial relationships and marriage as undesirable. However, the view is contentious given that the law that allows interracial relationships and marriages was enacted in 1960. Before then, it was prohibited and against the law to have a relationship with someone from a different race let alone getting married to them. Basing this context from the film Jungle Fever that tries to describe a non-healthy relationship between

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    Interracial Marriage is the term used to describe marriages that take place between two people who are from different racial or ethnic groups. Other term could be Interrculture marriage, which are marriages between two people with different cultural backgrounds. These terms can be defined in a variety ways to others. In the Autobiography of Malcolm X, he defined interracial marriage by stating, “I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and

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