Interracial Marriage in the United States 美國的跨種族婚姻

When I read articles attacking cross-racial couples I find it amusing. Sadly, they are quite common these days in some of areas of the media in the West. These ideologues have their names to label each type of cross-racial couple they don’t like. The labels serve to impose their own ideology 看法 and motives 動機 onto why these people of different race get together. So, I would have “yellow fever” and my wife would be a “sellout” in their terminology. They also have lots of supposed anecdotes 所謂的趣聞 to back up their prejudices. Of course some cross-racial couples are more correct than others, it just depends on which race or gender the writer hates more.

While these stories are slathered with a coating of fact and ideology, I believe that most of them arise from either envy or maybe a bad experience. Either way, interracial couples are much like same race couples, except maybe a little sweeter on the average 甜蜜一點. Romeo and Juliet, West Side Stories….there are lots of examples of couples who cross ethnic or other boundaries to become one, and they are stronger for having overcome opposition. Fortunately churches often seem to be at the forefront of cross-racial marriage, providing a supportive environment.

It’s all silliness to me because, regardless of race, they are all Americans. It is really culture and socialization that matters. That is why I still savor the memory of that white guy of Irish descent I met in Chicago’s Chinatown 芝加哥的唐人街 during college. His missionary parents died when he was just a baby before the revolution and he was raised by Chinese parents 他被中國父母領養的. He only left China and started learning English when he was 23 or 24才出國去香港開始學英文. His Chinese (Cantonese) was much better than his English. But for those who look at race he would not be Asian, just another white guy.