Inter-racial couples perceived

[pa___ul3]

Snafu's post got me thinking, when a white person is seeing a person of mixed race.. one would consider this to be an inter-racial couple. However, if it were a black person seeing a person of mixed race, would you still consider this to be an inter-racial couple?

Was thinking of examples of inter-racial couples in soaps and first thought was the gobby lad, fatboy his name might be, not a big fan, who's clearly of mixed race, and the black girl I think he's seeing who, without wanting to make too many assumptions, would appear to be solely of black origin.

Taking this further, if two people of mixed race, however.. for example. one is part black, part white and the other is part black, part asian.. would this be considered an inter-racial couple?

[Old_Geezer]

One as much as the other, yes.

Taking it further, well I think you're going over the top now. There is a point when meaning has been too far diluted.

[samak]

What about English and Slavic (Eastern European) ? Both white skinned. Is that inter-racial ? i would say yes.

[pa___ul3]

aye old geezer, I was just thinking out loud and kept thinking, I think the second point could be going a bit far.
It just seems that the majority of people, including it would seem, many mixed race black/white people, consider the black half predominantly. The most obvious example being the first black President of USA.
Saying that though, I'm sure this has been done to death so I'll give it up now!

[Old_Geezer]

Ah but as most I know have noted, they don't have a black president. It is sad that at least half of his family tree seems to be being ignored as if they were of no importance.

[pa___ul3]

that was my point old geezer, in that it tends to be the trend to only consider the black portion of an ethnicity of mixed-race people.

[jomifl]

Hi Paul, the point you are making seems valid to me, it highlights how cockeyed our perceptions of race are. There are many people of 'mixed race' who are of mostly European genetic stock yet consider themselves black, obviously blackness supercedes all other genes, at least in some peoples minds.A lot of people just repeat what they hear without thinking enough.

[atalanta]

I'm mixed race. The races which have contributed their blood to mine are:
Picts, Scots, Huns, Goths, Vikings, Danes, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Celts, Normans, Gaels, and for all I know, Huguenots and Jews and Gypsies as well.
But I have a skin you would take for Japhetic.
Still, I rejoice in being a mongrel.
You are a mongrel, too, if you have a skin the same pasty, melanin-deprived colour as I have. That pasty skin is a sign of a vastly varied mixture of origins, and there is no arguing about it.
Many of the races of Africa have far purer bloodlines than "white" Brits have, so we really can't talk about "race", whatever that is , after so many centuries of miscegenation
I'm mixed race, you're mixed race - enjoy it or lump it.