The Importance Of Interracial Marriage

Throughout time interracial couples have had to endure many obstacles that has made it hard for them to live comfortably within our country. America’s history of slavery and racism has made it hard for people to accept interracial marriage. Over time it is shown that as a country the overall acceptance of interracial marriage has progressed. The Union itself has helped to put an end to prejudices between races within this country that has really plagued our society for so long. Today we can see that interracial relationships are changing people’s view on other races by getting a firsthand look into their lives. Interracial marriages are greatly affected by families and whether they accept or reject the union. In the article “Understanding the

This is shown in Wang and Penaloza article where both parties are discouraged from pursuing their relationship, but proceed to get married against all odds. Not only do families affect interracial relationships, but the relationship itself can affect families and change their view on racial relations. Ellie Krupick talks about this in her article “Interracial Dating is Fundamentally Changing America,” she talks about how interracial relationships within families can put an end to prejudice and help families to become more accepting (Krupnick November 20, 2014 n.p.). Families are seeing that as they are exposed to other races it is putting an end to prejudices that they may have believed because they never took the time to engage with that person’s race or culture. Some families do not initially accept other members of their families to marry outside of their race, a white mother may condemn her daughter for marrying a black man and never speak to her, but it said that once a family is started many families reconnect over the grandchildren. Ursula Brown points this out in “The Interracial Experience” where he says “The arrival of a grandchild could drastically alter the attitude of a family that had rejected the cross marital choice of their child. As Crohn explained, a grandchild is

From the time of the Loving decision to now approval of interracial marriage has only gotten higher. Our countries unpleasant history had created a society that made it hard to accept interracial marriage. Families can grow morally from the benefits from interracial marriage by allowing themselves to gain knowledge of another races culture. The media has added to the display of interracial marriage throughout the country today and is starting to show better depictions of interracial marriage. The union of two different races is not only changing the attitude of this country but also the idea of marriage in general. Though in some places people aren’t totally use to the idea of interracial marriage it is becoming more and more common. Interracial marriage will only continue to progress over time and get better if people keep an open mind and pay less attention to race and more attention to